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

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Get free software!

Looking for new software, but don’t have the money? You can now get software for free that will tackle most of your computing needs. Whether its an Office alternative, an email programme or a graphics program, someone out there has developed a  program that will do the job for you.PC magazine has just published a list of 157 of the best free software out there. Some of these will work through your browser and some you can install on your computer. Have a look, you may find the ideal program for your needs