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PortableApps Delivers Enhanced Beta of its Open Source App Suite

PortableApps has issued a new beta version of its Platform 2.0 release, downloadable here. If you?re unfamiliar with PortableApps, I covered it previously here, and it swept the SoureForge Community Choice Awards for open source software last night, winning four awards, including Best Project, and Most Likely to Change the Way You Do Everything. It?s a suite of truly excellent, pre-selected, open source applications that you can stick on a USB flash drive. That enables you to have your applications--with your pre-set preferences--available to run on any computer, anytime.

It?s especially popular as a way to store many useful applications on a pocketable drive, but many netbook owners who don't want to run bloated applications use the small-footprint apps in the PortableApps suite. The open source applications that you get are top-notch, and the new upgrade to the suite includes many meaningful enhancements.



USB Thumb Drives and Your Open Source App Arsenal

Do you carry a USB thumb drive with you? If you don't, you should. These have fallen radically in price, and can be useful in numerous ways. For about $150 you can get 64GB drive that fits in your pocket, and keep it loaded with countless free, open source applications, or versions of Linux that you can run on any computer any time. With a 64GB drive, you can also easily back up files to your thumb drive, and conveniently transfer files back-and-forth between computers.



Smart Installer Pack Delivers Solid Open Source and Freeware Apps

I've written before about PortableApps and MacLibre, which offer free, single downloads that deliver bushels of top-notch open source applications to Windows and Mac users, respectively. With them, you can almost instantly populate a computer or even a USB thumb drive with useful applications ranging from AbiWord (word processor), to Blender (animation and graphics), to GIMP (graphics), to Adium (instant messaging), to Cyberduck (FTP client), to Firefox (browser). As DownloadSquad notes, Windows users have a similar free option in Smart Installer Pack. ?Here's what you get for free with it.


PortableApps Still Offers Herds of Free Apps in One Download, Gets Upgrade

PortableApps has released an overhauled version 1.5 of its PortableApps.com Suite. Like previous versions we've covered, it's an especially good way to get a bushel of choice open source applications onto a USB thumb drive or portable computer in one download. Then you can use them on any computer, anywhere. The new version 1.5 of the suite has a new, much better-looking theme, and good security features. You can also launch applications as an administrator, and keep application icons out of menus--great if you carry your open source applications in your pocket. MacLibre offers a similar download for Mac users, and PenDriveLinux is an equivalent for the Linux crowd. Check out more on the new PortableApps version here.?


Putting Linux Muscle in Your Pocket: Resources for USB Thumb Drives

If you've followed my previous posts on PortableApps and MacLibre you know that these sites offer Windows and Mac users, respectively, the opportunity to get boatloads of useful, free portable open source applications in one download. They're especially good for stocking a USB thumb drive with applications that you can carry in your pocket and use anywhere. Linux users interested in the same opportunity to maximize the potential of a go-anywhere USB thumb drive have even better options: They can put a complete Linux operating system on a pocket drive, along with lots of great applications. Here's a good way to find everything you need to do this quickly.


Open Source Plus Microsoft: A Christmas System Overhaul

On Christmas Eve, I saw my 18-year old cousin, who has just started college. Knowing that he was going to see me, he had brought along an old Dell Latitude notebook computer, circa late 1999 or so, and running Windows 98--a dinosaur. The notebook had once been used by his father for work, but was unneeded by him and unwanted anymore by his company. My cousin couldn't get it to boot past the Windows logo. My cousin's idea was that it could be fixed up and upgraded so that it might be like a netbook that he could use at school, with a few extras such as a nice large screen and full-size keyboard. This overhaul, it turned out--including getting the notebook to speak Wi-Fi--was my job.


Stocking Your New Computer With Top Open Source Apps

The holidays are approaching, and that's when many people get new computers. Add to that the back-to-school rush, and the popularity of new hardware offerings such as netbooks (low-cost ultraportable systems), and there clearly a lot of people either unboxing new systems now, or about to do so. If you are in posession of a new computer, consider stocking it with a collection of top open source applications. In this post, I'll review and add to some ideas we covered several months ago on ways to do so--in some cases with just one download--for the Mac, Windows or Linux.