{"id":92,"date":"2007-11-04T23:54:07","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T04:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/2007\/11\/04\/portableappscom\/"},"modified":"2019-04-01T13:58:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T13:58:45","slug":"portableappscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/portableappscom\/","title":{"rendered":"PortableApps.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOne of my peers introduced me to the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portableapps.com\/\">www.portableapps.com<\/a> a week or two ago. This site takes popular applications, modifies them to avoid requiring a typical installation so that you don&#8217;t need to have administrative privileges on the system to run them. This allows those of us (especially consultants) that work on others&#8217; systems to be able to use some of our favorite tools without requesting special privileges.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d encourage you to check them out if you&#8217;d like to be able to put your favorite utility or web browser on a USB drive, plug it in to a computer you&#8217;ve never used before and start using the utility without delay. It can provide a great deal of privacy protection as well since you don&#8217;t leave behind your browser cache, bookmarks, or site visit history.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re looking for a tool to access the internet, archive some files, transfer files, read MS Word documents or many others, grab the Portable Apps utility of your choice and avoid the Windows-isms. They&#8217;ve got a great <a href=\"http:\/\/portableapps.com\/apps\">inventory of products<\/a> already and they seem to be actively updating the existing tools as well as adding new ones.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my peers introduced me to the website www.portableapps.com a week or two ago. This site takes popular applications, modifies them to avoid requiring a typical installation so that you don&#8217;t need to have administrative privileges on the system to run them. This allows those of us (especially consultants) that work on others&#8217; systems &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/04\/portableappscom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;PortableApps.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,22],"tags":[43,86,130,168,208],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technical","tag-administrator","tag-firefox","tag-mozilla","tag-portable","tag-standalone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dannorris.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}