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PortableApps.com In The News
PortableApps.com has been covered by many magazines, newspapers and websites. If there's an article from a large publication missing, please let us know!
- April 26, 2008 - CNET - Featured Freeware: PortableApps - "The suite's flexibility is impressive. It manages some of the best freeware applications from a taskbar menu that runs instantly when clicked on."
- April 25, 2008 - ReadWriteWeb - Social Tools for the Office Worker: How to Subvert I.T. and Play at Work - "pop in your USB drive and it will be like you've never left your home PC"
- April 21, 2008 - bMighty.com - Portable Applications: Software -- And Security -- On The Move - "these tools often deliver surprisingly rich feature sets when you consider the fact that they are completely portable and don't install anything on the host system."
- April 15, 2008 - Law.com - Carry Your Office in Your USB Thumb Drive - "After you install the PortableApps Suite on a USB drive, you can then take it to any computer and use the software directly from the USB drive. When you plug it in, a small window resembling the Windows Start Menu appears allowing you to choose the application you want to launch. All of your documents, Internet downloads and e-mails are stored on your USB drive -- no data is left on the computer when you unplug."
- April 9, 2008 - Sunshine Coast Daily - There's nothing wrong with freeloading - "It works independently, so as you move from computer to computer, all your emails, addresses, bookmarks, documents, photos, music and preferences, are stored and run directly from the flash drive."
- April 4, 2008 - lifehacker au - Your risk-free means of trying out Firefox ... - "Your risk-free means of trying out Firefox 3 Beta 5 is already available, courtesy of the fast-moving folks at PortableApps."
- April 2, 2008 - downloadsquad - Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition available - safest way to try out FF3b5 - "you can also install a portable application like Firefox 3 beta 5 portable edition to any folder on your hard drive. Why would you want to do that? Because then you can try out the latest test version of Firefox without overwriting any of your Firefox 2 settings."
- March 28, 2008 - Information Week - Friday Open Source Round-Up - "The PortableApps.com suite (always a favorite of mine) now has a grab-it-and-go version of GnuCash 2.2.4, an open source financial management app that's shaped up as a nice personal replacement for apps like Quicken or Microsoft Money."
- March 28, 2008 - Web Worker Daily - One-Stop Shopping for Apps in Your Pocket - "PortableApps.com is a great resource for finding free, hosted applications ideal to keep on portable storage devices. However, it also offers a free suite of pre-chosen applications that you can get in one, quick download."
- March 17, 2008 - ZDNet - Putting together a portable office - MKII - "PortableApps.com Suite contains a whole raft of useful applications... But it gets better than that. There’s an integrated menu to make launching the apps easier. All you need to do is download the suite you want, install it to your USB flash drive and you’ve got an instant portable office - all for the amazing price of $0!"
- March 14, 2008 - lifehacker - Risk-Free Firefox 3 Beta 4 - "Want to try the latest Firefox 3 Beta 4 but you don't want to mess up your current 'fox installation?"
- March 13, 2008 - Information Week - The No-Risk Firefox 3 Beta Tryout - "Want to give the Firefox 3 beta a spin, but you don't want to go through the tedium of backing up your profiles and personal data? Here's an easy solution if you're a Windows user."
- March 12, 2008 - Official Google Reader Blog - Reader and ARIA: A new way to read
- March 12, 2008 - Download.com - Run Firefox betas without losing your cool - "Using PortableApps' Firefox 3 Portable beta 4, you can keep your Firefox 2 settings while tinkering with Firefox 3."
- March 5, 2008 - CHIP Download - Download of the Day: Thunderbird Portable
- March 3, 2008 - Financial Express - Ditch the laptop - "PortableApps: This is a excellent collection of some useful programs like Firefox (for web browsing), OpenOffice (like Microsoft Office), Pidgin (for chat) and GIMP (for photo editing) designed to run from any removable disk without installation. "
- February 27, 2008 - PC World - PortableApps-For Those on the Go - "The PortableApps Menu is a must have for anyone who wants their apps when and where they need them."
- February 25, 2008 - PC Mechanic - Take Popular Applications With You Anywhere - "Have you ever wished you could simply install some programs to your USB device and then, literally, take and use them anywhere? If so, check out PortableApps."
- February 18, 2008 - The Hindu Business Line - Power of portability - "No matter where you are, you can always carry a pen drive with your portable applications."
- February 8, 2008 - InformationWeek - PortableApps.com, February Edition - "Friends of mine have consolidated a good deal of their day-to-day work in a PortableApps setup, so if their main machine is borked they can simply go to another computer, plug in, and pick up where they left off."
- February 7, 2008 - CHIP Download - Download of the Day: VLC Media Player Portable
- February 1, 2008 - PC Magazine - The Ultimate USB Key - "The best things on your USB key are free. The open-source PortableApps Suite is a free 89MB download that installs... basically all you need to get work done on the road."
- January 31, 2008 - The Guardian UK - Ask Jack: Shared Insecurity - "You should also run all your own applications from a USB memory stick, using Firefox Portable Edition. This is included in a useful bundle, the portableapps.com/suite, which provides a menu system along with an office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, Sudoku game and backup utility. Go for the Base Edition that lets you select your preferred applications"
- December 19, 2007 - CNET News.com - Firefox 3 beta 2 is out and about - "If you're a bit nervous about accidentally damaging your current installation of Firefox 2, but you'd like to try out the Firefox 3 beta, I recommend installing the portable version. It doesn't affect your old settings, although you can't run both Firefox 2 and Firefox 3 beta portable simultaneously."
- December 12, 2007 - lifehacker - Try Out Firefox 3 Risk-Free with a Portable Version - "Eager to check out all the new hotness in the Firefox 3 beta but don't want to scuff up your perfect Firefox 2 setup?"
- December 8, 2007 - Digg.com - Firefox 3 beta goes portable - "Want to test out Firefox 3 beta without messing up all of your precious Firefox 2 settings? Easy, just install the portable version."
- December 7, 2007 - Download.com - The Daily Download - Test Firefox 3 risk-free - "If you're curious about the beta, though, and you don't want to risk your Firefox 2 settings, the Firefox 3 beta 1 portable gives us all an easy and safe way to play around with the browser as it's in development."
- December 7, 2007 - Download Squad - Firefox 3 beta goes portable - "Because Firefox Portable is self-contained, it will not write any data to your hard drive or registry. That means you can test out Firefox 3's new features like Places, and improved location bar without messing up your current settings. You don't have to install Firefox 3 Portable to a flash drive, you can just as easily install it to a folder on your hard drive."
- December 7, 2007 - Information Week - Get (And Give) The Gift of Open Source - "The first big open-source project that gets a little of my Christmas cheer is the PortableApps suite, an incredibly useful bundle of no-install-needed editions of popular open-source programs. It's a one-stop shop of sorts for a whole slew of common apps -- Firefox, the OpenOffice.org suite, VLC, and 7-Zip -- and it can be run either from a removable drive or from a single self-contained directory on a PC."
- November 9, 2007 - CNet Blogs - Dealing with software crashes - Part 1 - "The classic use of portable applications is to run them off a USB thumb drive, but they work just as well running off the C disk. I do this all the time. Whenever possible, I prefer to use portable applications (see this about portable Thunderbird)."
- November 6, 2007 - WIRED How To Wiki - Carry Your Desktop Anywhere With Portable Apps - "once installed on your portable device and connected to a host machine, [it] will auto-launch with menus allowing you to select which programs to use"
- October 16, 2007 - Columbia Tribune - USB drives let you plug in to new possibilities - "Lots of different software publishers are releasing portable versions of their products, but the best one-stop source is PortableApps, a suite of completely free, open-source mini-apps for flash drives. These miniature - but full-featured - Windows applications run entirely from your USB flash drive, without installing anything on the host computer."
- October 15, 2007 - Library Journal - Consuming Information - "Like how you have Firefox set up? Carry it with you, along with the dozen or two other programs you use in order to consume and manipulate information. Start with John Haller's open source PortableApps Suite, which includes useful applications like Firefox, Pidgin, and OpenOffice.org. Learn a program once, configure how you want it, and have it accessible when you need it."
- September 3, 2007 - CNET - Three cheers for portable Thunderbird - "While portability is the prominent, public, sexy feature, to me, being able to backup an application is just as important, if not more so. You can back up a portable application simply by copying a folder."
- August 30, 2007 -Linux Magazine - Stupid USB Tricks (free registration required) - "[PortableApps.com] gives you the convenience of running the same applications on anyone's PC, without disrupting the machine or leaving a trace of your activity. You just plug in your USB device with the applications installed, click on a launch program, and you have an instant office environment, along with all your files."
- August 14, 2007 - Manila Standard Today - Linux in my pocket - "Running programs off a flash drive when you’re outside the office makes for good security, too. After you quit, nothing—no data, cookies, backup files or cached browser pages—is left behind on the computer you used. All that’s safely tucked away in your flash drive."
- August 2, 2007 - Linux Magazine - Open Anywhere! (free registration required) - "That’s pretty impressive! With PortableApps, you can use the Web, read email, transfer files, chat with friends, ssh into machines, edit images and sounds, watch movies and listen to music, write office documents, zip up the results, and store passwords securely! And remember, there are even more programs on the site, with new ones coming all the time."
- July 31, 2007 - Manila Standard Today - Really portable computing - "A less intrusive and more flexible approach is to install free Portable Apps (http://portableapps.com/) on any USB drive."
- July 30, 2007 - The Wall Street Journal - Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You - "All three of our experts pointed to a company called Rare Ideas LLC (RareIdeas.com), which offers free versions of popular programs such as Firefox and OpenOffice. You can download the software onto a portable device like an iPod or a USB stick, through a service called Portable Apps (PortableApps.com). Then hook the device up to your work computer, and you're ready to go"
- July 18, 2007 - SoftPedia - Softpedia Pick and 100% FREE Awards for Notepad++ Portable, MPlayer Portable and VirtualDub Portable
- July 7, 2007 - lifehacker - Featured Download: OpenOffice Portable upgrades - "Now you can take your documents and the programs you need to work on them with you wherever you go."
- July 3, 2007 - DL.TV - Free Productivity Apps, Free Media Players, And a whole lot more! - "It's Portableapps.com. It's a sweet site that you can basically download a file and install it to your USB key, your flash drive, any flash drive... the awesome thing about this is that... you can take it to any other Windows PC and just plug it in."
- June 25, 2007 - Geeks.com - Computing on the Go with PortableApps - "PortableApps enables you to compute on the go in a package that literally fits in your pocket. While PortableApps won't replace your desktop or notebook computer, it's a quick, easy to use, and convenient way to get work done while you're away from home. You don't have to worry about losing or damaging an expensive piece of hardware or leaving your “footprint” on a computer that's accessible to the public."
- June 23, 2007 - Information Week - USB Flash Drives Mobilized - "PortableApps Suite from PortableApps.com is a preconfigured collection of such programs that's a snap to run."
- June 5, 2007 - SitePoint - FirefoxPortable—Your Mobile Office Without a Laptop - "In summary, if you’re traveling places where you don’t want to take the laptop (and who really wants to carry one anywhere?), get yourself a thumb drive and make yourself at home on it."
- April 2, 2007 - Maximum PC - Maximum PC's Fifth Annual Softy Awards - "PortableApps delivers a free bundle of computing goodies that can be loaded onto any device—thumb drive, hard drive, iPod, whatever!"
- March 28, 2007 - PC World - 101 Fantastic Freebies - "Do you find yourself frustrated when you're on the go, without all your applications and data?"
- March 17, 2007 - InfoWorld - Stealth Tech: PortableApps.com - "I was filled with glee at discovering PortableApps.com."
- March 5, 2007 - Tuscaloosa News - Exchange benefits travelers - "[Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition] allows me to check all eight of those accounts from one piece of software then store the messages on my USB drive for viewing or responding later."
- February 26, 2007 - San Francisco Chronicle - Computing Q&A: Bookmark help from Firefox - "The portable version works just like the regular hard-drive version -- with the added bonus that your personal settings such as toolbar links and bookmarks are transportable from computer to computer."
- February 12, 2007 - The Tampa Tribune - A Better Start On The Web - "you really should have the excellent and free PortableApps Suite"
- February 2, 2007 - Computeract!ve - Carry a web browser on a USB drive - "[Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition] makes it possible to take favourite websites wherever you go, while benefiting from features such as tabbed browsing."
- January 29, 2007 - WhatIs.com - What Is Podcast: What is a portable application?
- January 2, 2007 - PC World - Download This: Tech That Won't Tie You Down - "The benefit of toting the suite around is that you'll always have the programs you're used to, along with all your saved bookmarks, settings, and other customizations"
- December 26, 2006 - LinuxPlanet - Desktop Linux--What Happened, And What Didn't, In 2006 - "an entire portable environment--ranging from OpenOffice.org to the ClamWin portable antivirus tool--on just a single USB stick"
- December 21, 2006 - Download.com - Rising Stars of 2007 - "a portable version [of OpenOffice.org] lets smart travelers carry their business software on a flash drive."
- December 18, 2006 - Newsforge - PortableApps Suite: Portable computing with style - "its sheer simplicity and polished interface will appeal to people who want to be able to use a portable computing environment with minimum efforts and maximum style"
- December 2006 - Redmond Developer News - Stupid Developer Tricks: Portable Apps - "Carry your Windows Apps with you on a USB key drive. A developer's vision now a full-time job."
- December 2006 - Windows IT Pro - Take It with You - "I've found a much better solution: I put portable applications on a USB thumb drive, then connect my thumb drive to the user's machine and get to work without walking back and forth to my desk."
- December 4, 2006 - CNET TV - Carry your computer in your pocket - "Voilà! I have my Firefox with my bookmarks on Veronica's computer"
- December 1, 2006 - Download.com - Editor's Pick & Homepage Feature - "The download and installation is quick, if not lightning fast, and the interface menu looks as good as it is straightforward."
- December 1, 2006 - Webware - Leave the Laptop Behind with PortableApps - "PortableApps Standard Suite turns your memory device--iPod, Darth Vader Flash drive or even your digital camera's memory card--into a software and personal file manager."
- November 30, 2006 - netzwelt - (Freeware of the Day) PortableApps Suite: Alle PC-Programme ohne PC (German)
- November 29, 2006 - Yahoo! Tech - Create a Thumbdrive Loaded with Portable Apps in One Easy Step - "Altogether the system works great, and of course, it's completely free. Give it a spin!"
- November 29, 2006 - Business Standard - Make it stick - "Ever got stuck because your hotel's business centre didn't have the software you want? Well, PortableApps Suite may just be the solution you've been looking for."
- November 27, 2006 - Download.com Dispatch Newsletter - Essential apps to go - "If you've got an iPod or other portable device, give the PortableApps Suite a try. You may never leave home without it again."
- November 27, 2006 - Personal Computer World - PortableApps Suite Standard 1.0 - "Verdict: Excellent idea. Enables you to quickly install a number of applications on portable USB key and then use on another computer, without leaving behind traces of your work."
- November 22, 2006 - SDA India - Portable Apps Suite Lets Software Programs Run on iPod, Flash Drives
- November 21, 2006 - WIRED Blogs -
Holiday Must Haves: Bird, Stuffing, Wine, Firefox - "Here's a great way to get around those crappy standard installs of Internet Explorer 6 and MS Office -- plus whatever else they're running -- lurking on relatives' computers."
- November 21, 2006 - lifehacker - Download of the Day: PortableApps Suite 1.0 - "Whichever version of this app-tacular bundle you download, you're going to love it."
- November 21, 2006 - Information Week - Portable Suite Runs Apps From Flash Drives, iPods
- November 21, 2006 - Softpedia - PortableApps Suite 1.0: "Softpedia Pick 5/5" & "100% Free" Awards
- November 21, 2006 - Digg.com - PortableApps Suite 1.0 and Firefox Portable 2.0 Released (1000+ Diggs)
- November 21, 2006 - DownloadSquad - Portable apps to be thankful for - "a whole suite of glorious free portable apps all wrapped up in one package"
- November 17, 2006 - Computer Shopper - Break the Chains with PortableApps - "You're away from home or work, and you manage to track down a computer to finish up something important, only to discover it's missing the one piece of software you need most. Well, with PortableApps, those days just might be over."
- October 13, 2006 - CompterEdge Magazine - Put Your Computer on Your Key Chain - "this is a great way to operate when you're on the road"
- September 7, 2006 - BlogCritics - Fun with Portable Software - "This development adds new meaning to the words plug and play"
- August 8, 2006 - Jerusalem Post - Digital World: Portability for you, me and them
- August 7, 2006 - NewsForge - Interview: PortableApps brings open source to USB
- June 21, 2006 - The New York Times - Pogue's Posts - Carrying Your Digital Life on a Keychain
- June 2, 2006 - Processor Magazine: Portable Applications - How To Deploy Your Business Applications Remotely
- June 1, 2006 - USA Today: Carry your programs, data with you on a thumb drive
- May 2006 - Redmond Magazine: Productivity on the Go
- May 1, 2006 - Pioneer Press: Traveling Light
- April 12, 2006 - Malaysia Star: Taking your PC anywhere
- April 10, 2006 - TechWeb via iTNews: Apps-To-Go site looks for gold and community
- April 2, 2006 - Los Angeles Times: Unravel the Web of e-mail options
- April 1, 2006 - The Daily Star (Bangladesh): Carry your workstation in your pocket
- March 21, 2006 - Business in Vancouver: On the road: making office mobility more practical
- March 12, 2006 - Newsday: Getting Started on Portable Apps
- March 5, 2006 - Newsday: Portable apps get a thumbs-up
- February 13, 2006 - PC World Magazine: "Our three favorites": Portable Firefox, Portable Thunderbird, Portable OpenOffice.org
- January 2006 - Softpedia: 5/5 Pick Award: Portable Thunderbird
- November 2005 - Softpedia: 5/5 Pick Award: Portable Firefox Deer Park
- October 2005 - Computer Power User Magazine: The Bleeding Edge of Software
- October 2005 - Popular Science: 5 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do With a Portable USB Drive
- September 26, 2005 - Kim Komando Radio Show: Kool Site of the Day
- September 22, 2005 - Softpedia: 5/5 Pick Award & 100% Free Award: Portable Sunbird
- September 22, 2005 - Softpedia: 100% Free Award: Portable AbiWord
- August 17, 2005 - PC Magazine: The Ultimate USB Key
- August 2005 - PC World: Internet-on-a-Stick
- August 2005 - Microsoft Windows XP Magazine (Australia) CD: Portable Firefox, Thunderbird & OpenOffice
- July 2005 - NET-RUNNER Magazine (Japan) Cover CD: Portable Firefox & Thunderbird
- June 8, 2005 - Softpedia: 5/5 Pick Award: Portable Thunderbird
- June 2005 - PC-WELT Magazine (Germany) Cover CD: Portable Thunderbird
- May 19, 2005 - Softpedia: 5/5 Pick Award: Portable Firefox
- May 2005 - FUTURE France (associated magazines) Cover CDs
- April 7, 2005 - Softpedia: 100% Free Award: Portable Firefox
- March 22, 2005 - Wikipedia: Firefox Entry
- February 2005 - COMPUTERBILD Magazine (Germany) Cover CD
- January 2005 - PC-WELT Magazine (Germany) Cover CD: Portable Firefox
- November 11, 2004 - PCStats.com: Essential USB Memory Drive Projects & Tips
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