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Friday, May 11, 2012

What's a PORTABLE APP and why would I want one?

A "portable app" is an application (a piece of computer software or a program that does something) that let's you take the program from one computer to another. Instead of installing something like Office 2007 onto one computer, and then having to get another (expensive) license and install it on another computer... or instead of having a great program on your home machine but not having it on your brother-in-law's machine... you COULD be using a "portable application" right on a flash drive.

Here are some lists of portable apps from which you can pick and choose. They all include excellent application you can run from your flash drive for: word processing, video viewing, audio/music, communication, working with pictures, and more.

http://www.makeuseof.com/pages/best-portable-apps

http://www.portableapps.com

www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/

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