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Tuesday, March 07, 2006

What is a portable application?

I'm not sure when it dawned on me, but there was something very cool about the DOS days when a guy didn't have to worry so much about the program he used. You could just PKARC a program's directory, copy it over to another computer, unarc it and run the program. There was no need to find the installer. There was no need to wait will the installer ran (in those days, waiting was a common thing).

Now, with the advent of USB or flash drives (actually, any portable rewritable storage medium... as some are made of flash memory and others actually have tiny spinning hard drives inside but that is for another post) this concept of a portable app is even cooler. Not only is it possible to move the program around from computer to computer without having to install anything, but it is also able to be run directly from your portable usb drive without even having to copy it over to the PC that you're running the program on.

This collection of programs on usbwarez.com is of portable applications that have been tested and run nicely on a USB drive with no need for installation. We hope you find our site useful. If you have any suggestions for applications that we should review, please send us a link.

 

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