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You’ve always been able to grab uTorrent’s program folder and drop it onto a thumb drive for portable BitTorrent handling. Now the PortableApps.com suite has packaged our favorite torrent client and integrated it with their application menu.

I have my home desktop set up with applications for a variety of tasks, but when traveling, at work or at a friend’s house (I’m often de facto IT for friends and family) I never seem to have the tools I need. I used to carry around a book of CDs with various applications, but [...]

Portable application Toucan backs up and syncs your data between two locations (like your hard drive and your USB drive). Weighing in at just over 4.10MB installed, Toucan offers several advanced backup and syncing settings, like incremental backup with compression (supporting 7-Zip format), portable drive variables, scripts and advanced rulesets.

PortableApps.com is the most popular portable software solution allowing you to take your favorite software with you. A fully open source and free platform, it works on any USB flash drive, iPod, memory card, portable hard drive or other portable device. With a full collection of open source software as well as compatible freeware and [...]