One word – Portableapps.com . If you say it fast it is one word. Trust Me.
Don’t get me wrong for some serious fixing – data recovery action I get down with Knoppix. It always seems to get me out of a jam. I keep it on a CD in my bag for emergencies but on my Memory stick I keep the Portable Apps Suite all loaded up. It’s got everything for everything.
From Thier Website:
What is a portable app?
- Portable – carried or moved with ease
- App – a computer program like a web browser or word processor
A portable app is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. When your USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or other portable device is plugged in, you have access to your software and personal data just as you would on your own PC. And when you unplug the device, none of your personal data is left behind.
No Special Hardware – Use any USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod/MP3 player, etc
No Additional Software – Just download the portable app, extract it and go
No Kidding – It’s that easy
Consider the Possibilities…
- Carry your web browser with all your favorite bookmarks
- Carry your calendar with all your appointments
- Carry your email client with all your contacts and settings
- Carry your instant messenger and your buddy list
- Carry your whole office suite along with your documents and presentations
- Carry your antivirus program and other computer utilities
- Carry all your important passwords and account information securely
- Consider the Convenience…
- Have your favorite websites handy to recommend to a friend or colleague
- Have your presentation AND the required software ready to go for that big meeting
- Have your password with you if you want to bank online while traveling
- Have utilities handy when visiting family or friends that are having PC problems
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For us Lotus Notes guys…
Lotus Notes on a stick
For us Lotus Notes guys…
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/…“>REL=”nofollow”>Lotus “>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/…REL=”nofollow”>Lotus Notes on a stick
For us Lotus Notes guys…
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/…“>REL=”nofollow”>Lotus “>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/lotus/products/…REL=”nofollow”>Lotus Notes on a stick
I have a Voicestick [voip], with 64 MB of storage, which holds an older version of Austrumi Linux, ver. 1.4.0.
I can boot to a live web page in about one (1) minute.
Austrumi will allow you to access damn near anything you need to do your job.
Voicestick is the only company that I know of with a cellular bridge, allowing you to use your cell phone over their network, rates are dirt cheap. You don’t even need to buy the “stick”, just download the softphone from them or get an account and download the original SJphone.
links:
http://voicestick.com
http://cyti.latgola.lv/
ruuni/index_en.html
http://www.sjlabs.com/
sjp.html
I never heard of VoiceStick before but it looks really cool. As for Austrumi I have heard of it but never used it myself. Looks like I have some new tools to check out!
We got a few emails asking about both of em as well! Any interest in doing a write up on either or?
Sure, I’ll get something put together/sent to you over the weekend.
First, tho’, I have to deal with a blown Cavalier fuel pump, dying weed whacker and cranky riding mower, happy, happy, joy, joy.
Thanks Dan – I on the other hand have an execs emergency. He has a Windows Media Center 2005 (glorified xp) and when he goes to login to any account on the machine it comes to an error box with a x in it. Nothing else.
Click ok it logs you off to start again.
Safemode doesn’t work.
Knoppix boots fine. There is only 100 gb of data to get off the machine. Ever see anything like this??
I never heard of VoiceStick before but it looks really cool. As for Austrumi I have heard of it but never used it myself. Looks like I have some new tools to check out!
We got a few emails asking about both of em as well! Any interest in doing a write up on either or?
Karl,
I haven’t seen that situation, but I’d approach it with either a BartPE or a linux distro as you did.
I’m going to assume [yea, yea, I know] safe mode, last know good, etc didn’t work?
An outside 3rd party had their hands in it, consider it compromised.
Back profiles up and remove the contents of default user. Copy the local administrator to default and see if it boots as a new user-you can make one with Password Renew or NTPASS.
If you can get back in as a new admin, then clean out the original local administrator as well or at the very least change its password.
The only Media Center machine that arrived was purchased without checking with IT. It isn’t domain friendly, I made them send it back and get an XP Pro loaded box. It was a new model that I didn’t have an image for, so I’d rather start with an XP Pro load to make a new one, than up/downgrade one OS to another.
@Dan – I just posted all about my experience.
And for the record you can make Media Center act just like XP SP2
The key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > BANANA > WPA > MedCtrUpg >IsLegacyMCE set it to 1…
I will do a post on it when i get a shot.
@Dan – I just posted all about my experience.
And for the record you can make Media Center act just like XP SP2
The key is
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > BANANA > WPA > MedCtrUpg >IsLegacyMCE set it to 1…
I will do a post on it when i get a shot.
Believe me, the needs of the one, didn’t outweigh the needs of the many.
The guy [who bought the MC PC] is an administrator sitting in an office, running an Elementary school and the district didn’t need the additional expense, just for him.
Had it been a lab full of MC machines, to teach audio/video editing for instance, I could see the benefit.
Consistancy is vital in large enviroments. especially when maintaing deployable images.
as for Austrumi does it have cd/dvd burning tools built in?
Consistancy is vital in large enviroments. especially when maintaing deployable images.
as for Austrumi does it have cd/dvd burning tools built in?
@NinjaAdmin:
Austrumi features simplecdrx for burning to CD.
It’s the only tool so far that has been able to make an audio cd [from MP3's] that actually play in the factory-installed CD player in my car.
The one machine I have it installed on doesn’t have a DVD burner, but I’d imagine it shouldn’t be a problem.
Dan thank you for getting back to me but i could not wait any longer. it downloaded burned and worked perfect. dvd data files and all. You guys are the bomb.
MCE in the corp enviroment – not bloody likely. Meh. I guess it is good to have the hack just in case.
sloth that lotus notes on a stick works good as well. we are a notes shop as well.
I am glad there are people like you guys helping out other people for free. keep it up guys you are the best.
Dan thank you for getting back to me but i could not wait any longer. it downloaded burned and worked perfect. dvd data files and all. You guys are the bomb.
MCE in the corp enviroment – not bloody likely. Meh. I guess it is good to have the hack just in case.
sloth that lotus notes on a stick works good as well. we are a notes shop as well.
I am glad there are people like you guys helping out other people for free. keep it up guys you are the best.
my favorite portable application is mizu softphone. http://www.mizu-softphone.com/Download.aspx they have a portable version of the voip client which i can use with all voip providers
I also keep the installation .exe’s of a few system-tool type programs that I find indispensable, so when a colleague asks me to make their computer run faster, etc, I have the files ready to go.
CCleaner, TweakUI, Iobit’s SmartDefrag, Process Lasso, Free Ram, etc.