How to Use a USB Drive for More Than Storage
winPenPack helps put application on your USB drive that you will use in everyday computing. If you have a spare USB drive laying around, put it to work and get some of those rarely used programs off your computer hard drive.
One like me, I have multiple USB drive at or near my computer. I have 256mb to 2GB size usb drive that I have used to store mainly documents and programs that I do not use often.
winPenPack is an interesting application that turns your USB drive into an application powerhouse. Now, it is not the first of it’s kind but it is one that does it in fewer steps then the others. This article will provide you with more information on the free download.
Winpenpack is an applications environment of free softwares, modified for being run and used from USB drive or any removable device, without need of installation. It is a free and open source project managed by developers who offer their work freely. X-winscp (secure ftp transfert). X-winmerge (visual text file differencing and merging tool). Web server pampa (amp environment: apache, mysql and php).
Winpenpack also provides you with an option to create your own set of portable applications from among those available. A typical winpenpack suite offers a wide range of applications like office tools, internet tools, multimedia tools, development tools, security applications and other frequently used utilities. Some of the popular application that comes with the essential pack are. Open office, sumatra pdf, sticky notes, filezilla, firefox, gimp, thunderbird, pigdin, disk cleaner, 7zip.
There are various editions of winpenpack available and user can download the one which suits their needs best. The various editions of winpenpack are – essential, flash 2 gb, flash school, flash game and flash web. You can use it from a usb drive, pen drive or from a pc hard drive without any installation.
Winpenpack is essentially a collection of portable apps designed to make your flash drive more powerful on the go. For example, there’s the complete collection of portable apps that will fill a 2gb usb key, but if you’re only looking for safe ways to surf the web and check your mail on the go, you can download the “web” pack that only includes browsers, e-mail clients, and other similar apps useful for web access.
Alternatively, if you’re just looking for a way to kill time in between classes, the “game” pack comes with some portable games to help you get your mind off of your next appointment. There are six packs in all, each designed for different needs. If you’d rather not download a pack at all, you can get portable versions of every piece of included software in the pack individually, from firefox to audacity. If you’d still like the benefit of using winpenpack’s interface for launching portable apps and configuring them, you can customize your own pack using the apps already available on the site.
After inserting the usb pendrive into a free usb port on the host pc, user will have immediately available a collection of pre-configured and ready to use programs, subdivided in categories and executable through a practical menu, analogue to windows quick launch, the winpenpack launcher. Although originally available in english, the suite offers a pack of multi-language translation, which is of course the Spanish version.
Winpenpack comes with an integrated application launcher. Portabletor allows you to connect into the tor anonymous internet system from any computer with your flash or USB drive. This allows you to browse the internet anonymously from public locations, such as internet hotspots, library, or school computers and public terminals. Portabletor has all of the features as the regular tor, except without actually installing the application. You could also use portablet or if you just don’t like installing programs on your computer, and you’d rather have a standalone program with all of its dependant files in one location.
