April 04, 2007

Make your own usb portable app

I've extolled the virtues of Portable Apps before for a couple ofl reasons:

1) You can carry your favorite applications wherever your go

2) They're completely free

Let's suppose, however, that you have an application on your computer that you really want to take with you, and it hasn't been converted into a portable application yet. In fact, it may never get converted. I guess that you're screwed, right? Wrong.

A commenter on the Portable Apps forum, Klonk, has created a Portable Apps Template which, if used properly, will help you convert most applications to a portable format. Another commenter, Smithtech, has created several conversion scripts from the template, including ones for Photoshop 6 and Dreamweaver 8.

Have I done this yet? No, but I'm fairly certain that I will, and if I think that the software I convert would be useful to others, I'll post the script here.

Posted by: Physics Geek at 11:23 AM | Comments (3) | Add Comment
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1 I linked to this one. Couldn't get trackbacks to work. Thanks for posting this good stuff... MC

Posted by: mostly cajun at April 05, 2007 08:00 AM (WGMYt)

2 Thanks for linking. I'm glad that people find some of what I post useful and/or interesting.

Posted by: physics geek at April 05, 2007 10:30 AM (KqeHJ)

3 i find portable software great. nothing like taking it with you. thanks for the pointers...

Posted by: steven m s at April 15, 2007 11:03 PM (ry+3a)

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