{"id":2360,"date":"2008-07-25T13:13:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-25T18:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2008-07-25T10:06:45","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T15:06:45","slug":"even-cooler-than-openoffice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/25\/even-cooler-than-openoffice\/","title":{"rendered":"Even cooler than OpenOffice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fellow Downtown Memphis blogger Sig<\/a> shot me an e-mail this morning to let me know that there’s something even cooler out there than OpenOffice<\/a>, which I recommended yesterday.\u00a0 It’s called PortableApps<\/a>, and it’s an entire suite of open-source software that you can carry around with you on any storage device – for example, a USB flash drive<\/a> $\"\"$ , iPod<\/a> $\"\"$ , or external hard drive<\/a> $\"\"$ .<\/p>\n

Being able to carry all your software, files, and bookmarks around with you has a number of advantages.\u00a0 I can see this being especially useful if the main computer you use is not a computer you own.\u00a0 For example, if you use the computer lab at school, you can use the word processor running on your flash drive\u00a0with your customized settings and preferences, rather than the school’s.<\/p>\n

It’s also useful because it doesn’t leave a footprint… no evidence is left of what you’ve been doing on the computer you’re using.\u00a0 This could be handy if, for example, you want to use your office computer to edit your resume.<\/p>\n

Sig tells me that he has an 8 GB flash drive<\/a> $\"\"$ with PortableApps installed, and still has 7 GB left for files.\u00a0 That’s really cool.\u00a0 Sounds like a real winner.\u00a0 We’re starting to see a lot of innovations in software, and this time around they’re not coming from the big dogs like Microsoft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"