Portable Applications

Thought i'd do this post because like many of you i'm sure, can't live without certain applications that you need to use from wherever you are. This is now made easy through the use of portable applications which can be stored on a USB Flash Drive. I'll post a list of useful ones and you can feel free to use the comment box to also show your own recommendations.

Development Tools:

• Dev-C++ - This application allows you to edit code wherever you are (of course). The environment is extremely similar to the Microsoft Visual Studio one.
• Notepad++ - Free source code editor.

Graphics:

• GIMP - A feature-rich environment where you can create and edit digital graphics and photographs.
• Blender - 3D animation program.

Documents:

• Open Office - Word processor, spreadsheet and presentations with Microsoft compatibility.
• Foxit Reader - PDF Viewer
• AbiWord - Word processor that is also compatible with Microsoft Word files.

Internet:

• FireFox Portable - You can now Take FireFox and all your bookmarks and saved passwords with you thanks to this application.
• ChatZilla - IRC client that can be used as an add-on to FireFox Portable.
• Google Talk - VoIP and IM.
• Thunderbird Portable - Portable email client.
• PuTTY - Free telnet/SSH client.
• FileZilla - FTP client.
• Trillian Anywhere - Trillian IM application.
• uTorrent - Extremely light BitTorrent client.

Music and Video:

• VideoLAN (VLC) - Plays a variety of video formats and other media files.
• Portable Audacity - Audio editor and recorder.
• MediaCoder - Transcode, compress and convert audio and video.
• DeepBurner - Burn discs and ISO images.
• Portable VirtualDub - Video processing and capture.

Operating Systems:

• Mac-on-Stick - Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably.

Utilities:

• Portable 7-Zip - File archiver and compressor.
• ClamWin - Scan for viruses on Windows machines.
• HiJack This - Spyware removal tool.

Other:

• Portable DOSBox - Play classic DOS games on the go.
• Portable Sudoku - Play Sudoku on the go.
• Portable Poker - Play Texas Hold 'Em on the go.
• Portable On-Screen Keyboad - Does what it says on the tin.