The Portable Freeware Collection - this website contains a collection of Portable freewares.
What is Portable Freeware ? - Portable Freeware is one which can work independently on any system without any need of installation.
The main function of these freewares is that they are portable. Portable in the sense they can work on any system without any pre-installations.They can be carried around using USB flash drive,memory stick and can be run on different PC's (that's the idea of portability). These freewares don't have EXE setups rather they have zip files which are to be extracted in any one of the devices and can be runned directly. Few freewares don't even have zip files, just open the directory where it is stored and run. As simple as that !
So what's the use of freeware? Imagine when you want your browser's settings,bookmarks,cache options etc., to appear same in both of your computers ( assume you have ) say one at your office and other at your home, when you change the settings, say theme of your browser or bookmarking a webpage, in one of your computer then you need to go through the same process again at the other computer. (This may seem simple in this case. But in few other cases it can kill your valuable time). Here is where portable freewares comes in handy and very useful. In this case, a portable browser (firefox available) can be stored or extracted in your USB device and you can run the browser from anywhere. You can update your bookmarks , download new themes, set other settings as you wish and the files are updated in the USB device each time you make changes. Wherever you run the freeware, you always get the resources and feel you want. This is one of the example of portable freewares. There are hundreds of portable freewares you can find in this site.
Why it is called freeware, not software or shareware or anyware ? Reasons revolve around distribution rights,personal use etc., concepts. There are few issues like the freewares suggested in this site are not platform independent and things like that. All details are available here. It has RSS feeds too and you can right away ping this site in your news aggregator.
What is Portable Freeware ? - Portable Freeware is one which can work independently on any system without any need of installation.
The main function of these freewares is that they are portable. Portable in the sense they can work on any system without any pre-installations.They can be carried around using USB flash drive,memory stick and can be run on different PC's (that's the idea of portability). These freewares don't have EXE setups rather they have zip files which are to be extracted in any one of the devices and can be runned directly. Few freewares don't even have zip files, just open the directory where it is stored and run. As simple as that !
So what's the use of freeware? Imagine when you want your browser's settings,bookmarks,cache options etc., to appear same in both of your computers ( assume you have ) say one at your office and other at your home, when you change the settings, say theme of your browser or bookmarking a webpage, in one of your computer then you need to go through the same process again at the other computer. (This may seem simple in this case. But in few other cases it can kill your valuable time). Here is where portable freewares comes in handy and very useful. In this case, a portable browser (firefox available) can be stored or extracted in your USB device and you can run the browser from anywhere. You can update your bookmarks , download new themes, set other settings as you wish and the files are updated in the USB device each time you make changes. Wherever you run the freeware, you always get the resources and feel you want. This is one of the example of portable freewares. There are hundreds of portable freewares you can find in this site.
Why it is called freeware, not software or shareware or anyware ? Reasons revolve around distribution rights,personal use etc., concepts. There are few issues like the freewares suggested in this site are not platform independent and things like that. All details are available here. It has RSS feeds too and you can right away ping this site in your news aggregator.
5 comments:
hey sai,
dosent this go back to the era of carrying ur OS on floppy(DOS)...i think that lots of security issues and virus problems will certainly be experienced in future...
neways any such development is welcome provided people using them take adequate precautions to use only valid softwares..
hi shanky , certainly this Freeware is not next generation or hi-fi technology. It just makes our work simpler and easy. This is jus a tool which can never take us into any era.
hey,
i was refering to the possible increase in security vulnerabilities as seen b4 with floppies..it was merely an allusion
Thanks for sharing the info, some of the stuff there is nice...
# thanx gangs
#thanx bubble boy
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