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Portable Apps Suite
by Jordan Running Feb 1st 2006 at 3:00PM
The fine folks
at PortableApps.com have put together an excellent Portable Apps Suite that
bundles eight essential Windows apps that you can take with you on a USB drive. The included apps are Firefox (web
browser), Thunderbird (e-mail client), OpenOffice.org (office suite), AbiWord (word processor), NVU (web site editor),
Sunbird (calendar and tasks manager), FileZilla (FTP client), and Gaim (IM). The suite comes in two flavors:
Standard, which includes all of the above and fits on a 256MB drive, and Light, which omits OpenOffice.org and fits in
128MB. Brilliant.
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Steve said 7:33PM on 2-01-2006
I can just see productivity dropping at offices all over the country. Thanks for putting this up! I'd forgotten about that project.
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