Thanks to the advent of high capacity branded USB drives, those who live a “connected” lifestyle can work anywhere, anytime. As computing devices get smaller, portability is no longer an issue. The only problem remaining is how to fit all those massive applications you have on a laptop or desktop into your portable devices, which don’t have mega Gig or Terabyte drives.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way, as they say.
Enter portable apps, miniaturized, space saving apps that mimic their larger siblings. Created using open source code, these portable apps give you all the horsepower you need in a small package that can easily fit on any branded USB drives you have in your arsenal.
With them, you can work on any documents or files you need to without having to install the apps on your main drive. This makes portable apps on branded USB drives the perfect solution for those who travel a lot or use computers in hotel lobbies, airports or libraries – anywhere that has a computer with a USB port.
A lot of the programs available at portableapps.com are free, too. The trade off is they may have some ads embedded. That said, they are a very simple, affordable way to have access to your files. Not only can you work open them, but work on them as well.
Let’s face it. While Microsoft Office is a standard bearer of every office dweller on the planet, it is a space hog. It’s hard to take with you. But with the portableapps.com suite on a branded USB drive, you can do plenty of work without taking up more than a couple megs on your drive.
What do you get for your few megs of required space?
A lot! The basic suite has everything you need to surf the web, manage email, keep track of your schedule, play some tunes, kill some time gaming and open PDFs. Software includes Firefox (browser), Thunderbird (email), Sunbird (calendar), Sumatra (to read PDFs), Pidgin (instant messaging), ClamWin (anti virus), PNotes (for writing notes), CoolPlayer (music) and Sudoku and Mines (games). The OpenOffice.org app adds a word processor and spreadsheet that is compatible with Microsoft products.
That’s a lot of applications – all on branded USB drives that can go right along with you.
If you need more apps, don’t worry. The site carries a complete line of products designed specifically for portable computing using USB drives.
If you’re wondering who uses these tools, know that millions of people have already downloaded them. So you don’t have to worry that the company is sneaking in any spyware or malware into your system. The products available through the site for your branded USB drives are all checked and tested to make sure that they are on the up and up.
Sure, it all sounds too good to be true. But as they say, good things come in small packages and this new generation of portable apps is the perfect companion to the branded USB drives available on the market today.