Bring your software with you.

These days as you move from home , to work or out in public you may find yourself using more than one computer. What do you do if all the computers you use don’t have the software you want to use?

The answer sometimes can be portable Applications. “A portable application, or portable app for short,” according to Wikipedia, “is a software program that does not require any kind of formal installation onto a computer’s permanent storage device to be executed, and can be stored on a removable storage device such as a CD-ROM, USB flash drive, flash card, or even a floppy disk, enabling it to be used on multiple computers.”

Not everything is available as a portable app, but quite a lot is and more and more is being made available all the time.

You can get a flavour of what is available by looking at sites such portableapps.com, mojopac, pendriveapps or FreeSMUG

Diarmuid

Overview of Web 2.0 services

I came across this post recently and thought people might be interested. Its from The Office 2.0 Database blog by Ismael Ghalimi. In this post he lists the web 2.0 services that he uses on a day to day basis as alternatives to locally installed software and also a host of alternative services that people can use.

Most, but not all, are free services. So it’s well worth a look if you are looking to start working/studying/researching/living virtually.

Diarmuid