Whether at the library, school, friends house or work you can have your favorite programs, with your settings and personal data, at your finger tips.  PortableApps allow you to install certain programs completely on to your flash drive. Best of all they are free. You can download individual programs or the whole PortableApps suite. Some portable applications available:

• Notepad++ – A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
• GIMP – photo and image editor
• FileZilla – a full-featured FTP client
• Mozilla Firefox – web broswer
• Mozilla Thunderbird – email client
• PuTTY – lightweight telnet and SSH client
• Audacity – A simple audio editor and recorder
• check out the entire list at PortableApps.com