Archive for July, 2006

Portable Apps, redefining portability

Wednesday, July 26th, 2006

There was a time when we actually thought that connectivity was being able to acess your email, through the net, or actually being able to chat anywhere using preinstalled MSN or Yahoo chat. But burning a cd without any programs installed? Now that new! Yes, portable applications are like softwares that can actually run inside your pendrive or from any removable hardware. It’s been here for quite some time but has always been in the form being small and nifty, with minor functions such as converting units or a portable dictionary.The portable application has evolved then, some to being full fledged software and with the invention and popular usage of thumbdrives (cheap and within reach of mass consumers that’s why!) and removable hard disk, it is no wonder that portable applications are the future in software. Imagine, stand alone softwares in your hard drive, capable of surfing the net or editing photos, imagine having the open office in a thumbdrive, being able to edit your presentation anywhere on any computer, that’s what were talking about! Untill now few software have been made but as time passes, you can be sure that portable application are the next big thing in software development!

Links:
PortableApps

List of portable apps at wiki

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Saturday, July 8th, 2006

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