Portable application

Definition

In displacement, you need sometimes to use your preferred applications which are not always available and you always do not have the authorizations necessary to install them.

A " application; portable " is a software:

installed on a Key USB, a CD-ROM, a external hard drive, or any other removable media;
does not require any preliminary installation on the hard drive of the host-computer;
records if need be, its data own, like its configuration, on the removable support;
and does not require any particular modification on this disc and does not leave any " print " (like temporary files) on the host-computer.

You can thus freely use a software and your personal data without leaving traces on this last.

Portable should not be confused with the concept of Portabilité, meaning that these applications can " to settle " on different operating systems, Mac as on a PC.

Small simple applications are " naturally " portable because it require any preliminary installation. One can quote for example Putty. Others require more or less important modifications, to adapt with this operation type.

Towards a new practice of data processing?

With the current capacities of media USB (key or hard drive external), one could envigager a hyper-transportable data processing, a computer at the bottom of its pocket. It is enough to find current and a processor host to carry out its applications with their data while leaving them the pocket.

Portable applications for Mac

Many programs developed for the operating system Mac OS X are portable because it is enough to " to slip/déposer" the application in the file " Applications" so that this one is carried out. However, several applications require the installation of files on the local hard drive.

Portable continuations of applications

A continuation of portables application is together of application integrated into a Launcher of application which in general is presented in the form of a menu unrolling in which is bonds towards the applications. These continuations are prepared and provided with a software of installation which facilitates largely the installation. One can quote:

FramaKey - together of OpenSources applications prepared by Framasoft, there are two versions, a normal and light, this continuation is very directed " bureautique" ;
LiberKey - together of applications free (but inevitably free), three versions, the most complete offer approximately 200 applications, much with fields are covered;
PortableApps - together of OpenSources applications.

List portable applications

Development

Portable Nvu - Free software of creation of Web sites in visual mode multiplateforme
XAMPP - Web server locally of Apache which contains MySQL, PHP and Perl (to test locally a Management system of contents like Joomla! or SPIP)

Plays

Portable4stAttack - a power 4 multi-player
PortableAlienBlaster - a “shot them up” which decided… not to derogate from the rule
PortableArmagetron - good open Tron-like source locally and network. Highly skeletal, it needs, on the other hand, absolutely an Open-GL chart. Of what to divert you from time to time…
PortableCrackAttack - is based on the same principle as the play Super Nintendo “tetris-attack”. It is necessary to align 3 blocks of the same color to make them disappear. Beautiful, rapid… very to like.
PortableCube - Cubic is First Persson Shooter (FPS) in Quake or Doom of most traditional in its use: to aim, draw and leave while running before another player has the same idea.
PortableDark-Oberon - a strategy game real-time with astonishing plasticity and the new possibilities! A super “warcraft-like” open source.
PortableDisasteroids3D - This little game in 3D OpenGL consists in surviving in the middle of a field of asteroids by destroying them.
PortableFooBillard - a play of billiards in 3D, simple and resting, and like always, in portable version.
PortableNeverball - Consists in not guiding a ball towards the goal by moving it as with Marble Madness but by directing the plate of play using the mouse.
PortablePouetChess - a set of failures in 3D, having a neat graphical interface.
PortableTremulous - This FPS (First Persson Shooter) comes straight of the universe from Quake 3 and is available in L.L since the release of the engine of Quake 3.
PortablezeRace - Little game of races of cars in 2D, a good drive for the Minis-Z…
Sudoku Portable - Plays of reflection

Graphics and CAM

Portable GIMP - Software of final improvement and creation of digital images
Portable Photoshop - Software of final improvement and Portable creation of digital images
Blender - Blender is with the 3D what GIMP is with the 2D, neither more nor less. A free alternative to 3DsMax.
Portable Inkscape - the vectorial drawing within reach. A complete editor SVG and conforms to standards XML, SVG, and CSS2. If you wish to specialize in the SVG, it is InkScape which you will need.
Portable Paint.NET - Developed at the beginning like a substitute for Paint, Paint.NET provides to final much more. Management of the copies, management of the transparency, multiple drawing tools, various tools for selection, unlimited history of cancellation, effects, Portable etc
Scribus - Scribus is a professional tool of Desktop publishing (CAM), equivalent of software like Quark Xpress, or Adobe Maker Page or InDesign, with this nuance close which it is published under license LPG.

Internet

Portable FileZilla - a free customer ftp
Opera@USB - a navigator very protected Web of the Norwegian editor
FireFTP Extension (for Mozilla Firefox) - Extension adding of the functionalities of customer ftp to the navigator Portable Mozilla Firefox
Gaim - multiprotocol Free software of instant messaging (IRC, AIM, ICQ, MSN and Yahoo Messenger, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr networks, etc)
Portable Miranda - multiprotocol Free software of instant messaging (ICQ, AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, Gadu-Gadu, Tlen, Skype, IRC. )
Portable Firefox - the portable version of the navigator Web Mozilla Firefox (Attention, PortableFirefox can use key USB)
PortableThunderbird - Customer of transport developed within the framework of the project Mozilla (Attention, the functions anti-spam of PortableThunderbird can use key USB)
Sage Extension (for Mozilla Firefox) - Extension allowing to integrate into Mozilla Firefox a reader of Fil RSS
Portable AMSN - aMSN (for Alvaro' S Messenger) is a clone of open MSN Messenger source. One finds the functionalities of the original program and which more is, aMSN is entirely skinable.
Coccinella - Free software of instant messaging

Music & Video

Portable Audacity - sound software of treatment open source
VLC Portable Media Player - Video player without codec to be installed, accepting a very large variety of audio format and video
Portable IVC Internet Video Converter - To convert your vidéos in the majority of formats (MPEG (vcd/svcd/dvd), FD, QuickTime, Windows Media, Xvid, H264, 3GP, PSP, iPod, video Flash (FLV, Swf) recovered of Youtube, DailyMotion, Google Video etc)
Portable Coolplayer - CoolPlayer is a reader of audio file of which principal functions resident in: Skins, simple interface, advanced editor of lists of reading, streaming on Internet, reading uninterrupted, equalisor 8 bands, Portable etc
Juice - One of the tenors of PodCasting, Juice (ex Ipodder) helps us to seek, organize, read, transfer our favorite audio shows.
Portable WinLAME - WinLAME encode of the musical extracts in various audio formats, of which MP3 and Ogg Vorbis. It makes it possible to parameterize the process of encoding grace an assistant simple to use.

Office automation

Portable AbiWord - fast and light Word processing compatible with Microsoft Word
PortableThunderbird - Customer of transport developed within the framework of the open project source Portable Mozilla
OpenOffice .org - office automation Continuation compatible with Portable Microsoft Office
Sunbird - Calendar developed within the framework of the open project source Portable Mozilla
DIA - DIA is a program of creation of diagrams distributed under license LPG. Equivalent of the program commercial Visio from Microsoft. It makes it possible to trace flow charts, plans of networks and circuits simple.

Operating system

Much Unix can be configured to be portable, others systems can be encapsulated in portable emulators.

Generally, the systems LiveCD are already " systems portables".

Mac-one-Stick - To carry out Mac OS Classic 7;
Linux-USB - explains how to install several light distributions of Linux on a key USB;
BSD on BSD - explains in the " BSD" style; how to make its own key under *BSD;

Utilities

7-Zip Portable - Software Open Source and powerful of compression;
Portable ClamWin - Antivirus one the go
PStart - Launcher of applications, similar to the menu to start of Portable Windows
AD-Aware - Free software of suppression of malevolent programs

Search engines

usbsoft.org | search Search for portable applications on the specialized sites.
(site) — allows to seek the office, the local area networks and devices portable.

See too

External bonds

usbsoft.org - Collection of portable applications for Windows
FramaKey - Compilation of Free software for Windows
PortableApps.free.fr - Collection of Portable Applications for free Windows (complete) or not (to be supplemented).
LiberKey - the portable compilation of free software and free
C.L.E.F. - Free Key And Functional calculus - Free software and nomads for Windows
IVC - Video Internet Converter Convert your videos in the majorities of the formats
KLIK - Portable Applications for Windows
klik - Portable Applications for Linux
PortableApps.com - Compilation of Free software for Windows
No-Install - Collection of Portable Applications. Necessary recording.
FreeSMUG.org - Applications Portable for Mac OS X.
Portable Freeware - nonportable Lists of applications. But being able the being.

Portable USB Apps - Collection of Portable Applications
TinyApps - Specialized in the small applications. The Portable Applications are marked of a " +".

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