10 Essential Portable Apps To Be Carried On Your USB Drive

10 Essential Portable Apps To Be Carried On Your USB Drive 

Portable App is a computer program, which can be carried around on a handy, portable device and used on any Windows computers. The portable device could be a USB flash stick, portable hard drive, iPod or any other devices that plugged in or your cloud drive is synced. And when you unplug the device, none of your data is left behind.

Nowadays, the memory sticks are so cheap, in the market, including the larger capacity, even 64GB, wouldn't break-up your wallet! With such larger capacities, you may store a lot of documents, pictures and even music album; but apart from these you may turn the USB stick into a veritable knife of tools with utilities. Yes, using with right tools and utilities, you may turn the USB stick to browse the web, check e mails or even edit the photos and no matter what's installed on your PC that you're using!

Web Browsing: For web browsing, there were many portable versions are available, in which Chrome and Firefox has also the portable versions. Once installed these portable versions on USB drive, you may add your favorite add-ons and extensions. As you're running the browser from USB stick, you won't leave any cookies, browsing history or even temporary files on the system you're using.

It is ideal for using in Internet Cafes or where you doesn't like the people to know what you've been accessing.
  

Safe Passwords: If you doesn't like to store your passwords online with a service like LastPass, then you can arrange a password vault instead. KeePass is an open source, free portable password manager, which is secured with a single master key, and there's no restriction to keep internet passwords, valuable information such as bank card PIN's, Windows / software serial numbers, user name with passwords, server connection details and etc., It's a best place to keep, not only, the above said; but you may add much more.

Make sure the master key you choose is strong and to be encrypted with your password database.

Zip Files: Windows has the ability to open and create .zip files; but, if you'd like to download .rar files then you're out of luck! Here's a free, open source portable version 7-Zip is one of the best desktop archiving tool, through which you may open compressed archive formats such as .zip, .rar, .gzip, .tar and .arj, including Cab and ISO files (useful for extract individual Windows files).  

Cloud Storing: Certainly, everyone of us is a big fan for Cloud and its Applications such as Google Drive, Microsoft's OneDrive and Drop Box; but without an Internet connection these aren't so helpful. So, just step on portable office App, like LibreOffice &  OpenOffice.org, which has fully featured suites with good office compatibility and both are open source, too.  

LibreOffice will open most of the MS Office documents, even complicated spreadsheets.

Photo Editing: Gimp, is an open source, portable image editor, has powerful tasks. You can took it along your USB stick to crop, resize the pictures and correcting the colors.

For Entertainments: VLC Media Player, a free open source portable multimedia version, which can allow you to play various types of audio and video formats such as MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, XviD, WMV, mp3, ogg with different streaming protocols.                     

File Recovery: Even the recycle bin, in Windows, gives a second chance on file deletion and if anyone wants to recover the deleted data then it's a headache and he has to install more software on his system. If you need to recover deleted data, then Recuva, a portable version, will help you to recover deleted files, emails, and even the images. You can use it as an ideal portable, which lives on your USB drive without leaving any traces of use on your PC.

This portable version is available for 32 and 64 bit systems.

Antivirus On The Go: You're confident on your PC is free from viruses, but you shouldn't trust anyone, who handles your PC, even for a while. So, it is better to carry a digital prophylactic app ClamWin, a portable antivirus package, and use it on any computer to scan files on the go, without leaving any personal information behind.

Spyware Detection and Removal: Generally, antivirus programs aren't looking at spyware or other malware on your PC. When browsing some sensitive websites like net banking, the usage track and registry issues to be cleaned and fixed unless the system gets infection as the threats are emerging daily. Spybot Search & Destroy is one of the best spyware scanner, which detects then removes tens of thousands of spyware and malware and enables to delete those annoying tracking cookies used by advertising.       

Protecting Your USB Stick: One of the drawback of USB stick is, too easy to lost, because they're tiny in size, but keeping on your key-chain is a bit safer. If you lost it along with sensitive / private information then you've to face problem. So, its better to secure the private data by doing encryption, an encoding process for data that can be read only by authorized person, which runs from USB stick. WinmagicEncryption, is an encryption tool that will run from your USB stick, enabling you to encrypt and decrypt files on the go. However, it needs admin rights to the computer you are using.