Poretable Application Combinations

Posted by Ken
Nov 12, 2008 at 05:24 AM

As I have been CRIMPing this last week or two (Surfulator, LWA and AM-Notebook), it dawned on me that my friend who was our network administrator at work left for a new job on Friday. While my copy of Ecco that he installed for me will continue to run, I do not believe that the remaining IT staff will be as open to any future requests for software installations. A personal netbook is one future option for me, and the other is portable applications that can run off of a USB memory stick or a USB portable HD. I am curious if anybody has any favorite portable application combinations (since we all know that one PIM is never enough) that serve them well. I am especially drawn to task managers that can tie in to a calendar/alarm system. I would be great if Surfulator was portable, and if they could incorporate custom fields in their templates. In the mean time, I am playing with LWA and AM-Notebook. None are a match for Ecco (which is not portable) for my tastes, and I am waiting for IQ to make it out of beta testing, but it would be great to hear what others find useful.

—Ken