how to put cool software on your usb flashdrive

with this instructable you can learn how to put cool software on your flashdrive or even your mp3-player!!

PS. first instructable, very simple, please comment!

also English isn't my best subject so when you see a fault please say it!

and when you like it...click the + please!

Step 1 Go to www.portableapps.com

start your browser(IE or firefox or whatever you use) and go to http://www.portableapps.com and click 'applications'. (red one on the screenshot)

Comments

[McQueezy]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahaha

[edfel01]

can u put apps on ur ipod using this?

[jongscx]

dude... NO... This is for being able to have a certain list of programs that are able to run without being installed on a specific system. They are instead, "installed" onto a portable flash drive...

[ellisgeek]

You are partialy correct. but you can put applications from portableapps.com on your ipods partition and run them from any  windows computer. 

[munchman]

actually, if you enable your iPod for disk use, you can. Although It would chew up space, and is a pain to bring the cable around with you everywhere.

[munchman]

Sorry, just read your other posts, the apps will not work natively on the Ipod, but instead on the PC it is connected to.

[Ov3rLoad]

Here's another site that has portable flashdrive apps,
http://www.pendriveapps.com/

[cam42]

This is fairly out of date now. I recommend installing the suite full or lite depending on your drive, and they are no longer in self extracting archives, but in neat little installers.

[edfel01]

so can i say play game on my ipod bc thats all i want it for

[edfel01]

so just download it to ipod root folder thing and thats it good to go?

[Tool Using Animal]

I like, it's been killing me not being able to use GIMP at work. Do these apps work with a locked down machine?

[Fenwick]

Yes they do. The GIMP works at my school, and they're pretty locked down. The PCs reset themselves every time they restart, and access to My Computer is restricted, but a dialog box asks me if I want to "explore the device". If anything, you could make a live CD using a simple autorun batch file. they shouldn't block autoruns.

[yeerk21]

in my skool if u download it in d drive it won't get eraesed

[Tool Using Animal]

Yeah I tried it out today and it worked fine I used GIMP and silent night cd burner, was finally able to use the cd burner on my office computer. Give me a computer with a cd burner and then won't give me software to use it, stupid ISS.

[m-arijn]

at my school it work's, but these computers aren't the best secured, so i would say: try, your computer won't crash and post the result at this instructable and send me a PM

[junits15]

ugh mac on a stick is anoying! i had to download the stupid bittorrent!

[tubbychick3n]

haha, this is all terrific news, considering i just got a 17 dollar 8 gig flash drive.

[pyro man]

where'd you get it from?

[tubbychick3n]

it was a special deal on some deal a day site. i actually bought 3, but each of them was 17 dollars if you split the price three ways.

[tubbychick3n]

did it earlier, works great

[vedran]

Here is one more nice site: www.portablefreeware.com GO FREE!!!

[Optimus]

As well as http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/portable-software-usb/
nice ible.

[Evilthingamabober]

This pretty much sums up why I bought my usb drive

[tater killer]

im gonna use this at school

[Wesleyh5891]

Do I download this on the PC first and then put it onto the flashdrive?

[m-arijn]

Yes...

[chicagopooldude]

Thanks for a valuable site suggestion I will try it out

[iperalta]

Greta stuff...i hate U3...

[bullyork]

thanks, this is going to come in handy for school

[jpix]

Hey m-arijn Thanks a lot for this. That instructable is so useful. :) gimp at work ... hehehe (evil laugh)

[HOMEPIE64]

yo im having some trouble do you download to your computer or usb?

[m-arijn]

download to your computer, then open the file and choose the directory of your USB-stick(ea.'F:') as the destination to unpack the file.

[HOMEPIE64]

ok but do i need to keep all the files or just the actual apps themselves(the ones with the pics)

[m-arijn]

once you've extracted the files you use the pictogram to start the program, you also need to keep the rest of your files on the usb-drive. You can throw away the files you did click to install the software...hope I'm clear enough...

[gothcat]

Get this instead of the horrible U3 software. My memory stick (Verbatim 4GB) came cheaper due to the U3 but i got the uninstaller and said goodbye to the U3 software and i have not missed it at all and the memory stick seems to preform better :o)

[instantnoodle]

same. haha

[hujke]

my first leeson was yhis and is really cool tnx a lot man

[MisterSlippy]

Just a note for U3 owners - some apps from portableapps won't work on U3 drives - for most of them, there are U3-compatible versions on the same site, or equivalents on the U3 download center

[m-arijn]

when you want the u3 version go to www.portableapps.com/u3, I think more u3 apps are coming up.

[TheOlMaestro]

Well done! I'd just bought a USB flash drive (it was packaged with U3 and some silly apps---not any more), and the PortableApps Suite seemed like a nice addition. Your English is fine, BTW.