Anyone else using these?

portableapps.com

I was told about it by a mate last night. Downloaded the suite plus GIMP and threw it onto my USB drive, and its basically removed the need for me to buy a lappy. Apparently works with all Windowss from 95 to Vista and WINE though Ive only tried it on XP so far.

Of course those of us old enough to remember DOS used to be able to do this years ago provided the app would fit on a floppy, but its very cool to see it back.

Not seen this before, thanks for sharing

Going to download and try out this puppy right now, could use this sort of thing for work

Cheers mate!

Ha, reminds me of the days when you had two floppies for the Macs at school, one for your work, and the other had MS Word on it.  

no probs, thought it might come in handy for someone. I think its a great idea, having a full suite of programs in your pocket on a stick just ready to go.

Portable Firefox is great, but I find it much easier to just carry around my entire OS + Browser on a stick...

very limited is portableapps

was looking last night, plus the UI is damn ugly

i am currently coding a very simple one with java as an experiment and possibly making a c++ version too.

bit too much bloat for my liking

it is better than the u3 psycho bloat i suppose

mmm DSL is cool, I use it on my laptop, but not much use unless you can reboot the machine.

Sweentster, will be interested to see what you come up with mate, keep us posted

That portableapps program is excellent, Ive put it on my flash drive and like the AV program for its portability.

Cheers
Tongy

woot, it seems to work from WINE

certainly portable firefox does, as thats where this is coming from. Fonts look a bit funny but it works.

Got a very basic trial version running atm

only problem being that the sys tray icon system is java 6 only

so until more systems update to java 6 it wont be much use globally

nice and simple though

mmm all depends what youre looking for I suppose, from where Im sitting a system which doesnt need Java at all and will run on any Windows box from 95-Vista plus any Linux box with Wine installed fits my needs a lot better than one which requires a certain version of Java.

My work box doesnt even have Java at all, much less version 6.