Re: [TOOLS] Portable Apps and picking a stick

[Carter Campbell <lists -at- soph-text -dot- com>]

Hi Kevin;
>    http://portableapps.com/apps/office/openoffice_portable
>
> Is anybody on the list working primarily with portable apps, by any chance? What's your story?
> Anybody moving among Windows and Mac machines? Can you use Portable Apps with Parallels?
I have used Portable Apps and utilities on a USB flash drive quite a bit 
over the last few years, though I haven't used it with Parallels.  I use 
the apps and utilities primarily for working on contract projects, as 
more often than not, these days, the client gives me a locked down PC 
that I am not allowed to install my own tools on.  I use a USB flash 
drive to give me access to my own tools.

My current Portable Apps suite is:

    * Audacity Portable
    * ClamWin Portable
    * Dia
    * Firefox
    * Thunderbird
    * Sunbird
    * GNUCash
    * InfoSelect
    * InfraRecorder
    * IrfanView
    * JKDefrag
    * Lightscreen
    * MP3Tag
    * Notepad++
    * Openoffice
    * Paint Shop Pro 7
    * SpyDLL Remover
    * timeEdition
    * Total Commander

though this tends to change a little depending on my needs for the contract.
> To carry a big suite of portable apps (and a variety of projects - data) I'm looking to get a larger (16GB or 32GB) USB memory stick. The prices are all over the map, even at same sites. 
>   
I have used a variety of different brands of drive over the last few 
years.  I have used a lot of Kingston and Sandisk, as they tend to be 
the cheapest drives.  Never had any troubles with any of them and the 
only reason I have upgraded is to get more space.  Currently, I am using 
a 16GB Sandisk.  It works, I like it, it seems to like me (man I hope I 
didn't jinx things. . . :-) ).  In my experience, almost all drives 
behave the same.  Access time is about the same, durability is usually 
pretty good (I still use a 256MB stick that I worked with about 5 years 
ago), so I don't fuss too much about the actual hardware.  I tend to buy 
whatever is on sale, in the size I want at the local computer shop.

One think I do a lot of is back the flash drive up quite a bit.  There 
are lots of ways to do this and Potrable Apps has a back up selection 
from the menu, so you should be covered.

If you want to chat more, let me know.

Cheers

Carter

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Carter Campbell
Technical Communications
lists -at- soph-text -dot- com
Calgary Alberta

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