Launch your portable applications with the Portable Start Menu

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Launch your portable applications with the Portable Start Menu

February 28, 2008 in Software | Permalink

Screengrab We're big fans of portable applications. Indeed, we still don't believe that end-users realise they can take their iPod Classic or Nano and use it in 'disk mode' as an external hard drive. It's a lightweight method of connecting an external drive to your laptop. If you normally take your iPod with you, copy across your portable apps, files and work info and keep it all self-contained with the iPod. The only problem is that these portable applications won't be accessible from your regular Start Menu, so you need an alternative.

Portable Start Menu 1.3 is a tool that you use to quickly find and launch your portable applications. Install it on your external drive (or iPod or USB stick) and then use this to link to the installed applications on your iPod. Remember that all information is then self-contained on the iPod and is not written back to the host computer.

Portable Start Menu link.

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