Month: June 2006

Take your most important apps around on a USB stick. Most of these are available from http://portableapps.com. Here are the ones I use.

• OpenOffice -- Office Suite and line-art design tools
• FireZilla -- FTP
• Nvu -- Web page editor
• Firefox -- Web browser
• LockNote -- Encrypt a text file (to store passwords, etc.)
• PSPad -- Text Editor
• PStart -- App Launcher
• Gimp -- Image editor
• MySQL-Front -- MySQL database tool. I use the old, open-source version; there is a newer commercial version here. A good server-side alternative is phpMyAdmin.

Additional portable apps, including games, can be found here.