Software
Portable Apps -Free-
Carry all of your office software on a flash drive or IPod portable hard drive and take all of it with you; your entire office suite, web browsers, all of your book marks, your email... Just plug that flash drive into any computer and have your data and software with you. PortableAppas.com com has a collection of independent software including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all pre-configured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.
No installation required. Just unzip the file and put them on flash drive. You can also use them on your desktop and it makes it easy to transfer all of your software and files to a new computer. Just copy the folders over.
Dam Small Linux -Free-
How about a Linux distribution and all of the software you would need taking up less than 50MB of space? Dam Small Linux can boot from a Flash drive and turn any computer into your computer. Keeps all your settings and software. This can turn your old computer into a functional pc again. The software can load everything into128mb of ram.
Damn Small is small enough and smart enough to do the following things:
- Boot from a business card CD as a live Linux distribution (LiveCD)
- Boot from a USB pen drive
- Boot from within a host operating system (that's right, it can run *inside* Windows)
- Run very nicely from an IDE Compact Flash drive via a method we call "frugal install"
- Transform into a Debian OS with a traditional hard drive install
- Run light enough to power a 486DX with 16MB of Ram
- Run fully in RAM with as little as 128MB (you will be amazed at how fast your computer can be!)
- Modularly grow -- DSL is highly extendable without the need to customize