Portable Web Browser for your USB Drive

10 Sep, 2006 Computers, Technology

Recently, I have been taking my USB cable for my Zen Micro MP3 player more often to school mostly because I wanted to recharge the battery there. But I also use the USB Removable Storage feature more often now too.

At school in comp science class, I hate using Internet Explorer. I also hate using the ftp client built into windows explorer because it freezes sometimes when you try to go to an ftp site (yes the computers at my school are slow). So if you have a computer course at school, or maybe just want to use your preferred browser at your workplace with all your favourties and preferences intact, there is a long list of portable applications that you can choose from.

So far, I’m using only a webbrowser, email client, calender/organizer, and an FTP client. But I definetely will be adding more apps to my USB drive as time progresses along.

The best place to go for portable apps is PortableApps.com

Remember you do have to have a USB drive to use the applications.

Say what? You don’t have a USB drive but you want to use this program anyways? Well, I guess you can use these programs on any type of removable storage as long as you can write to it as well as read to it without requiring any extra hardware. But common folks, if you are using a computer a lot between your workplace/school and home, then it is useful to have a USB. They aren’t expensive nowadays, you can get like 512MB - 2GB USB drives on sale all the time in Canada and probably the United States. If you live in places like Hong Kong where they give out USB drives with company names on them as promotional items all because they are so cheap to manufacture there, then you are in even better shape.

I use the following on my USB drive, all are from PortableApps.com

Filezilla Portable - FTP Client (Site)
Firefox Portable - Web Browser (Site)
Thunderbird Portable - Email Client (Site)
Sunbird Portable - Calender/Organizer (Site)

I also like using 7-zip Portable (Site) to compress those bigger files to a smaller size to fit on my MP3 player.