As an independent software developer, I often find myself using computers that aren’t my own. There are a lot of tools and utilities that I like to use that aren’t always on these computers and normally, can’t be installed on these computers. That is why I have a 6GB USB drive loaded with portable applications that run directly from the USB drive and don’t write anything to the host computer. For instance, I can always use the Firefox browser on my USB drive that has all of my short-cuts. It’s a great tool. On one of these posts, I’ll list all of the programs that I use. Until then, here is a nice list of Portable apps that you might want to try:

http://www.kikizas.net/en/usbapps.html