Omnivorous Surfer

Hmmm. What is that??? Funny you should ask. I wondered, too, when I saw it, so I looked it up and found that it might be useful. Here's the definition given by the individual who collected and made available on the web The Portable Freeware Collection (copyright 2004-2007):

• It must run without installation.
• It must run on older versions of Windows which might not have been updated.
• It must not have any coupling with Internet Explorer, audio/video codecs, DirectX etc.
• It must not write settings to the registry or local filesystem.
• It must not leave any trace on the host machine at all, even when the app crashes (hereby referred to as "stealth").
• It must run with guest access rights.
• It must be able to compensate for USB memory stick drive letter changes.

A further description is available, but this will suffice for here.

Applications include everything from audio (conversion, ediors, iPod managers, players, etc.) to video (authoring, capture, conversion, players, etc.). It's actually a pretty impressive list. I haven't tried any of these yet, but it seems to me they might come in handy when moving around from machine to machine in different locations where you don't know what applications might be available. Having both data and apps on a flash drive sounds pretty cool.