Have thumb drive, will travel: 11 portable apps for the Mac

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Have thumb drive, will travel: 11 portable apps for the Mac

by Simon Kerbel Dec 28th 2007

It used to be that a USB thumb drive was used mainly for transporting files to and from computers. Now, however, more people are using thumb drives to house portable applications. When you sit down at a computer that doesn't have Firefox, for example, and you're simply unwilling to double-click that Internet Explorer icon, just pop in your thumb drive, double-click your portable Firefox application, and surf away--no installation necessary.

Lists of portable applications are as old as the applications themselves, but lists of portable Mac applications are more rare. Over at Web Worker Daily, they have counted up and listed eleven portable applications for your Mac. Favorites on the list include Adium, that ubiquitous multi-protocol chat client, Bean, a lean and mean text editor, and iStumbler, a small app designed to find all wireless signals in your area, including Bluetooth, Airport, and Bonjour.

No longer will we envy those Geek Squaders with their multi-toned VW bugs and their keychain of portable thumb drives. Now we too can carry our USB drives with purpose. But unlike the Geek Squad, we will use our thumb drives for good, not for evil.

[Via Web Worker Daily]

Tags: adium, applications, bean, istumbler, portable, thumb drive, ThumbDrive, usb

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BILLIE JO BOWLING said 3:27PM on 12-28-2007

WHAT I MEAN IS ,I HAVE A SAMSUNG CAMERA AND I TRYED TO INSTALLTHE SOFTWARE THAT CAME WITH IT BUTT I HAVE VISTA . IT WONT WORK .WHAT CAN I DO WHERE CAN I GO ? THE WEB SITE ON THE DISK ISWWW.SAMSUNGCAMERA.COM HELP. THANKS BILLIE

jfjb said 4:04PM on 12-29-2007

relax those caps, dude, they don't help.
Moreover, Mac apps aren't for Vista computers.
Cappice?

jrkj said 11:13AM on 3-23-2008

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