What’s That on Your Thumb (drive)


My group at the office had a rather early Christmas Party last weekend and I was able to snag a 128 MB thumb drive as a gift (the limit on the amount on the exchange gift prevented the giver of the gift from giving me one with a larger capacity) . Anyway, since I don’t usually store my files outside of my notebook, I decided to just create my own “mobile toolkit” on that thumb drive.

So, the first thing I did was to download John T. Haller’s PortableApps Suite Base Edition to give me some leeway on what to install on the drive. Then with the Suite in place, I installed the following apps on the thumbdrive:
PortableApps Menu Screenshot

7-Zip Portable — an open source file compressor decompressor
Angry IP Scanner — an IP address scanner
ClamWin Portable — an open source virus scanning utility
GIMP Portable — the open source equivalent of Adobe Photoshop (only better)
HoverSnap — a screen capture software
PIN — a password manager
Portable Firefox — best web browser bar none
Portable VLC — open source media player
TrueCrypt — open source encryption software extraordinaire

All the programs I have on my thumb drive are either freeware or free and open source (FOSS) and they allow me to work wherever I need to go. Most of them are available free at PortableApps.com

How about the m-ph.com readers… I wonder what they have on their thumb drives?

note: this piece was originally posted at my blog Talkin’ Tech.

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Chico
Posted on:
12/26/2006 at 7:01 am

I have always been on a lookout for portable apps and read this as I thought this might be interesting. When I reach to the part that says firefox is the best browser man, I know the writer is a bigot. ‘Bar none’… no rooms for arguments huh? Do you know that there are other browsers out there aside from that ….ing firefox? No I’m not talking about IE.

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Bernie
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12/28/2006 at 9:13 am

yeah, I know that there are other frakking browsers out there but I find web surfing using Lynx (bar none, the second best browser in the whole wide world — DEAL WITH IT) a bit too dull.