5 Best Portable Apps

If you're looking to find the 5 best portable apps for your laptop computer or mobile device, then these selections may come to suit your fancy. The following programs listed here were designed to operate specifically from a Portable Hard Drive, a USB memory stick, and other portable handheld devices such as an iPod. Hence, you can transfer one batch of settings from device to device. And best of all, these five portable apps are completely free or charge. 

1. Skype. This portable app version of Skype lets you tackle everything from regular phone calls, instant messaging, video, to audio conferencing. Skype-to-Skype calls (i.e. phone, video, and SMS messaging) are also possible with Pay As You Go rates or you can have an unlimited plan for specific countries. 
2. 7-Zip. If you're heading anywhere on the go with a portable device, then you're going to need a portable app that is capable of compressing and decompressing a wide range of file types. Featuring a high compression ratio, 7-Zip localizes over 63 languages and works with many file types ranging from ZIP, GZIP, CAB, RAR, CPIO, RPM, and more.
3. Mozilla Thunderbird. This portable edition of the widely-known Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail service allows you to take your very own address book, e-mails, and account settings with you while on the go. Encryption is also available with GPG and Enigmail. Mozilla Thunderbird is perhaps the safest and most efficient portable e-mail system around.
4. VLC Media Player Portable. This portable app allows you to take your video and audio files with you so that you can be entertained wherever you go. VLC Media Player Portable accepts a wide range of video and audio formats from MPEG-1 2, and 4, WMV, DivX, mp3, DVDs, and many more.
5. Sumatra PDF Portable. This portable app allows you to view PDF files on your mobile or portable device. Let's face it, being connected to the Internet, you're more than likely to run into many PDF-based files on the go, and you won't be able to view them without Sumatra. Featuring a simple design, Sumatra is a totally open-source PDF file viewer.