Portable Must-Have Thumb Drive Apps

You know as well as I do that when you leave the comfort of your computer to a strange one it really bites to know that you don't have some of your favorite programs with you so, I'm here to help you in the best way i know how- with a badass list of portable apps for your flash drive!!!

TrueCrypt – encrypt your thumb drive to protect your information.

Portable Firefox – Leaves no personal information behind on the machine - you can take along your browser/extensions/bookmarks anywhere.

Pidgin Portable – All-in-one instant messaging (supports AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, G-Chat, etc).

FileZilla – another ftp client

Notepad++ - this is one of my favorite text editors – now made portable

GIMP – the popular open source image editor packaged as a portable app – very robust

7-Zip Portable – handles zip, gzip, tar, rar etc

UTorrent – my preferred bit torrent client – I love having this with me wherever I go

Text2Html – a text to HTML converter – converts text files into HTML format

RockXP – allows you to recover windows passwords or keys, change keys, display system password, and more

Portable Apps Suite – this is the mac-daddy of them all – it includes Firefox, Thunderbird(email), Sunbird(calendar),ClamWin (antivirus), Pidgin(see above), Sumatra PDF Readable, KeePass Password Safe, OpenOffice, CoolPlayer (audio Player) and a couple of games.