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PortableApps for Your Thumb Thumb.

My girlfriend will be going to Sweden for training soon and she wanted to copy her animes and drama over to watch. There's just one problem, she's not the administrator of her machine, so she has no rights to install any software or codecs. I guess that's a common practice of MNCs where only the IT department holds the administrator password. I decided to look for a video player software which does not need to be installed and can be run off a USB drive. Something like what Firefox and Miranda can do.

Anyway I found this nice app that do just that and more. PortableApps is like a manager for the portable applications on your USB drive. It is free. There are three versions:
Standard Edition - Comes with most open-source applications such as ClamWin, Firefox, Openoffice, etc. and runs on 512MB drive.
Lite Edition - Comes with less applications, runs on 256MB drive.
Base Edition - Stripped down package with just the menu, backup utility and custom folders, icons and autorun. Only take up 1MB. Need to download the other applications individually to include on your USB drive.

I installed the Base Edition cuz my old USB drive is only 126MB. =p I also downloaded the VLC Media Player and installed it using the options in the PortableApps Menu. The menu is similar to the Start Menu of Windows. It lists out all the applications on documents on the USB drive.


The whole process took about five minutes, probably longer if you choose to install the Standard Edition. It actually uses 7-Zip to extract the files into the USB drive. I plugged my USB drive on my desktop and was able to play my videos using VLC. It minimizes nicely into a lil' icon on the status bar when not in use. I think you can give it a try cuz it is free and it supports a large number of applications. But if your machine has the usb ports for portable devices disabled, then...
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