There are lot of user who like to use portable application which can run on there portable device like USB. Portable applications are useful when you need to work on different computers. If you work on a computer and you don’t find your required software is installed on it then portable apps can solve your problem.

Just keep your portable applications on your USB or any other portable storage device and run directly from there. You don’t need to install those apps on computer. This also helps you to secure your privacy.

5 Best Portable Apps

1. OpenOffice.org is the best free complete office suite. OpenOffice.org comes including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database. If you think al this can only come for computer software then you will feel happy that this also comes as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

2. Firefox – What if you want to surf on your favorite browser Firefox. If you th`ink you can’t carry any browser with you then think again Firefox portable version is there to solve your problem. As you know Firefox is most popular web browser and with portable version you don’t have to wary about your internet privacy.

3. VLC Media Player is one of the best media players. VLC Media Player also comes as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

4. GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) -GIMP is a free image editing software. It can do 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. Yes it also comes as portable apps.

5. 7-Zip – 7-Zip is a popular file archiver application you can compress 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer. It can easily compress or unzip almost any type of compression system.