This is perhaps the coolest computing solution of the year! Imagine carrying all your favorite applications with you wherever you go.  Now imagine when you use the application, it remembers your personal settings, bookmarks, or even passwords. What comes to mind to most people is that this can only be accomplished with a laptop or some kind of remote desktop solution.

But what if everything you needed existed on a single USB flash drive? PortableApps allows you to “carry your favorite computer programs along with all of your bookmarks, settings, email and more with you. Use them on any Windows computer. All without leaving any personal data behind.” Read the rest of this entry »

We first stumbled across Avast Antivirus when we finally got around to installing Windows XP x64 edition to see what mysterious powers we could unleash from our first hot new Athlon 64 processor. Other than support for more memory, it turns out the 64 bit version of XP was more trouble than it was worth - including being incompatible with our perfectly good antivirus software. Read the rest of this entry »