Poretable Application Combinations

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Posted by Ken
Nov 12, 2008 at 05:24 AM

As I have been CRIMPing this last week or two (Surfulator, LWA and AM-Notebook), it dawned on me that my friend who was our network administrator at work left for a new job on Friday. While my copy of Ecco that he installed for me will continue to run, I do not believe that the remaining IT staff will be as open to any future requests for software installations. A personal netbook is one future option for me, and the other is portable applications that can run off of a USB memory stick or a USB portable HD. I am curious if anybody has any favorite portable application combinations (since we all know that one PIM is never enough) that serve them well. I am especially drawn to task managers that can tie in to a calendar/alarm system. I would be great if Surfulator was portable, and if they could incorporate custom fields in their templates. In the mean time, I am playing with LWA and AM-Notebook. None are a match for Ecco (which is not portable) for my tastes, and I am waiting for IQ to make it out of beta testing, but it would be great to hear what others find useful.

—Ken

Posted by Cassius
Nov 12, 2008 at 05:59 AM

I believe the Win 3.1 version of Ecco might be portable. If I recall correctly, it used an ini file rather than entries in the register. You might lose some functionality, or you might have to put a couple of files on a C: drive, but it’s worth a try.

-c

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 12, 2008 at 09:13 AM

Brainstorm on USB would be by far the #1 portable application for me.

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Nov 12, 2008 at 09:16 AM

+ If you don’t need to add web clippings, just to access what you already have, Surfulater can export everything to an HTML with Java package that wprks brilliantly.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Nov 12, 2008 at 03:59 PM

MyInfo works portably from a USB stick and could be a very nice task manager… although it does not have integration with Outlook.

Steve

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