I knew about portable Firefox for USB drives, but the rest of the apps included in this article are just a nice surprise!

Today we’ve gathered together a bunch of applications that you can use directly off your flash drive. We we’re inspired by the release of portable Firefox and portable Thunderbird which was developed by John T. Haller. Basically what he did was optimize Mozilla’s Thunderbird and Firefox to be used on a flash drive. Why would you want to do that you may ask? Well imagine if you will that you could use your applications such as your browser on any computer and still have access to your favorites/bookmarks, or your email in the case of Thunderbird.

Through some hunting and searching on the net, we ‘ve narrowed down a few choice useful applications that are small and will work completely off a flash drive. Most if not all of these are also freeware which is nice bonus. [Read the rest]