Portable Office

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Portable software runs on your USB Drive
, custom flash drive, or your iPod, or a Memory stick
, or any type of external drive you plug into a USB port. You don't have to install anything on the computer's hard drive. It's like carrying your office around with you. Or... carrying your home to the office.

These kind of apps are becoming more and more popular as USB flash drives get cheaper and cheaper. If you ever do any work at more than one computer, go get one now, then install this freeware. Then you can do something else. If you want. Or, you can just hold your key drive and feel good about what you've just done.

By the way, I haven't included everything you can run this way, only those things you probably want to run this way.

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Portable Word Processor

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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Portable AbiWord

If you don't want or need a full office suite, take a look at Portable AbiWord. It's much smaller than LibreOffice and faster, too. John Haller created this version of the excellent AbiWord word processor to perform even faster than the original.

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Portable Text Editor / Notepad Replacement

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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Notepad2

This is a lean, mean text-editing machine. Notepad2 is one of the lighter-weight of the notepad replacements, but it's still vastly superior to Windows Notepad.

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Portable PDF Reader

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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Foxit PDFReader

Weighing in at a little over a meg, this PDF viewer is faster than Adobe Reader. Believe it or not, you might come across a machine that doesn't have Adobe Reader installed. You might even prefer Foxit. A lot of people do.

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Portable Office Suite

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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Portable OpenOffice

Hey, is that a full office suite of applications along with your private documents in your pocket or are you just happy to see me? John Haller is a heck of a guy. He's taken several of the best freeware applications and made portable versions. The outstanding OpenOffice works great from a USB drive (as long as the drive is over 127 meg).

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Portable Note Taker / Word Processor

Published by nedpwolf on Fri, 10/21/2011 - 14:19 in

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Jarte

Do you need to take notes when you're not on your own PC? What about modifying a Word document where no MS Word is installed? Maybe you want to have a collection of documents available with you at all times.

Jarte is a full-function word processor and note taker that runs off a USB drive. (I actually keep a copy on my phone.) Take your documents and the word processor with you wherever you go.

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Portable File Undelete Tool

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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Portable, Office, Security

If you are truly paranoid about leaving tracks on a visited computer, run Restoration to see what files may be undeleted after you leave.

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Portable Calendar / Personal Information Manager (PIM)

Published by nedpwolf on Sat, 01/01/2005 - 00:00 in

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EssentialPIM

It performs all your basic PIM needs: calendar, contact manager, etc. Conveniently, you can import your Outlook information, and it supports built-in encryption. You don't want your whole life in someone's hands when you lose your keys, do you?

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