“While the process of creating a portable computing environment
(a fancy term for a set of portable applications on a USB stick) is
not particularly complicated, it does require some manual work, and
the final result may not be as polished as you might like. The new
PortableApps Suite from John T. Haller, who also brought us Firefox
Portable, Thunderbird Portable, and OpenOffice.org Portable, is
designed to solve these problems, making it dead easy to turn your
USB stick into a portable application platform and add a couple of
useful features for good measure.“The idea behind the PortableApps Suite is to provide an entire
portable environment as a single installable package comprising
everything you need: applications and additional utilities that
make portable computing more efficient…”
NewsForge: PortableApps Suite: Portable Computing with Style
By
Dmitri Popov
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