Portable applications have changed the way of accessing software and other favorite applications. Now you can carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. And you can use them on any Windows computer all without leaving any personal data behind. Portable applications provides the platform that works with any hardware you like (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, etc). The entire platform is open source built around an open format that any hardware or software provider can use.
In this post , I have collected some of the useful Portable applications for OS X. I hope , this applications will definitely help you.
In this post , I have collected some of the useful Portable applications for OS X. I hope , this applications will definitely help you.
Portable Firefox OS X
Here is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 57 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your bookmarks, extensions, history, cookies, and saved passwords with you.OpenOffice – Complete Office suite
OpenOffice.org is the leading open-source office software suite for word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, databases and more. It is available in many languages and works on all common computers. It stores all your data in an international open standard format and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.Portable Thunderbird OS X
It requires minimum 60 MB of free space and you can use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your email, address book and account settings with you.Portable Adium
Portable Adium is the multi-protocol Adium instant messaging client that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more, packaged as portable application. It has 65 MB of free space on your USB drive and you can use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your contact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.Safari – Keep all your bookmarks and preferences
It’s a browser. It’s a platform. It’s an open invitation to innovate. Whether on a Mac, PC, iPhone, or iPod touch, Safari continuously redefines the browser, providing the most enjoyable way to experience the Internet.Portable Abiword OS X
Portable AbiWord OS X is the award winning AbiWord small, fast, lots of new feature and cross platform word processor packaged as portable application so you can take your profile, dictionary, math, Plug-ins and templates with you.Portable Nvu OS X
Nvu is a free, open source software program that allows you to build websites and web pages using a simple WYSIWYG editor. Nvu makes creating web pages as easy as using a word processor and rivals such programs as Adobe’s Dreamweaver and Microsoft’s Expression Web, only for free! With Nvu’s built-in site manager, connecting to your website and making changes is a snap.Portable Sunbird OS X
Portable Sunbird OS X is the Sunbird Project cross platform standalone calendar and task manager application packaged as portable application so you can take your calendar and task list with you.Mail Keep all your mail and preferences
Mail, Mac OS X’s built in email application, offers an elegant user interface that makes it easy to manage all of your email from a single, ad-free inbox, even when you’re not connected to the Internet. To see Mail in action, click here to watch Mail Basics.Portable Cyberduck
Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac. It features an easy to use interface with quickly accessible bookmarks. The outline view of the browser allows to browse large folder structures efficiently and you can quickly preview files with Quick Look. To edit files, a seamless integration with several external editors makes it easy to change content quickly.Portable Check Off
Check Off is a quick to-do list that sits in your Mac’s menu bar. Simply click the check mark and your personal to-do list will drop down.Check Off is just a mouse click away no matter where you are on your Mac. Whether you are making a grocery list, tracking your school assignments by class or just jotting down what you need to do for the day, Check Off can adapt to your workflow.Portable Gimp
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.Portable Newspeak
Portable Newspeak is Newspeak Cocoa IRC client for Mac OS X packaged as portable application so you can take your IRC servers, channels list and saved transcript with you.Inkscape – Scalable Vector Graphics editor
An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more.VLC – Video stream and multimedia player
VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player and multimedia framework capable of reading most audio and video formats (MPEG-2, MPEG-4, H.264, DivX, MPEG-1, mp3, ogg, aac …) as well as DVDs, Audio CDs VCDs, and various streaming protocols.Audacity – Audio editor
Audacity can record and play sounds and import and export WAV, AIFF, MP3, and OGG files. Edit your sounds using cut, copy, and paste features (with unlimited undo functionality), mix tracks, or apply effects to your recordings. The program also has a built-in amplitude-envelope editor, a customizable spectrogram mode, and a frequency-analysis window for audio-analysis applications.RSSOwl – RSS, RDF, Atom newsreader
RSSOwl is a free and powerful news feed reader. RSSOwl lets you gather, organize and search news in a convenient, easy to use interface with endless flexibility.X-Chat Aqua – IRC client
X-Chat Aqua is X-Chat with an Aqua interface for MacOS X. X-Chat Aqua uses the irc engine from X-Chat, and is designed to look and feel like the GTK+ front end.iCal – Keep all your events
Portable iCal.app is a shell script that open local copy of iCal™ using preferences stored in its application bundle.Camino – Web browser optimized for Mac
Camino is an open source web browser developed with a focus on providing the best possible experience for Mac OS X users.Vienna – RSS/Atom newsreader for Mac
Vienna is full of powerful features that help you make sense of the flood of information that is distributed via RSS/Atom.Celtx – Screenwriting & production breakdown
Celtx is the screenwriting & production breakdown writing tool packaged as portable application so you can take your preferences with you.Feed
Portable Feed is the Feed RSS, Atom newsreader packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking all your favorite news feeds with you.PDFtoHTML
PDFtoHTML 0.1b attracts users’ attention with the ability of converting files from the Portable Document Format (PDF) files into the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file format properly.Oxalyn Window Divider
Oxalyn Window Divider is a window “splitter” control for REALbasic. Very feature-rich and easy to use – drop right into your project for instant usage. 100% RB code, no Declares or plugins, so its portable! OS X and OS 9 tested, Windows assumed to work.
1 comments:
Huge help. Having a Mac can be limiting when it comes to the more techy aspects of owning a computer, but these resources are priceless when it comes to expanding those boundaries. Thanks.
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