{"id":1175,"date":"2012-04-17T17:36:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.brainlitter.com\/2012\/04\/17\/portableapps-comgreat-in-a-pinch\/"},"modified":"2012-04-17T17:36:32","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T00:36:32","slug":"portableapps-comgreat-in-a-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regroove.ca\/brainlitter\/2012\/04\/17\/portableapps-comgreat-in-a-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"PortableApps.com\u2013great in a pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Technorati: 8H833AZX68VQ<\/p>\n

Every once in a while I find myself at Portableapps.com<\/a> because its uber handy.<\/p>\n

Essentially, they have taken a number of popular applications and turned them into standalone applications (the \u201cinstall\u201d process simply creates a folder structure and an EXE to launch and doesn\u2019t install to the registry, start menu, etc.).<\/p>\n

In other words, if you are on a server and don\u2019t have the ability to install things but need to run something (today I wanted to be able to open a PDF but didn\u2019t want to install software on the server that was in use), I simply found Foxit Reader on portableapps.com, downloaded it and ran the \u201cinstall\u201d (again, not an install). I specified a folder and it extracted the bits it needed to run, without actually installing anything on the server.<\/p>\n

Anyways \u2013 useful in a pinch. www.portableapps.com<\/a> \u2013 maybe it will help you too. The current list of apps is here: http:\/\/portableapps.com\/apps<\/a><\/p>\n

As a side note, you can make \u201cyour own portable app\u201d with their solution \u2013 also useful. But often I find others already have and the tool is in the gallery. Examples include:<\/p>\n