Applications that fit on a thumbdrive for your Mac

With the price of thumbdrives being so cheap these days, you could almost carry around your entire operating system on one. Back in the day I had a nice thumbdrive full of Windows tools to help me troubleshoot problems and clean systems. It saved me a boat load of time, and helped me get machines back up and running in no time at all.

The good people over at Techie Souls has put together a list of 15 portable applications that you can’t live without. Now the list isn’t completely comprised of Mac software, but most of it is.

Is there any applications and programs that you use, or keep on a portable device? I know World of Warcraft would theoretically count, but you would need one huge portable device.

I’m curious what else out there has portible versions of their software on the Mac. Sound off in the comments!

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Man, Myth, and Legend, Joshua is the Editor-In-Chief, and founder of Macgasm. He produces two podcasts, Macgasm TV, and The AppOrchard, and can be heard on CBC Radio once every couple of years.

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To be honest I personally find that thumb drives are becoming more and more irrelavent. There are so many ways of keeping you data and apps online now that the risk of carrying around on a thumb drive that can be easily lost is less worth doing.At work I am just struggling to find a good easy to use solution to secure all our staffs thumb drives and to be honest I would prefer to make policy that they were just not allowed, although I acept that practically I couldnt do this just yet, but the day is coming....

To be honest I personally find that thumb drives are becoming more and more irrelavent. There are so many ways of keeping you data and apps online now that the risk of carrying around on a thumb drive that can be easily lost is less worth doing.At work I am just struggling to find a good easy to use solution to secure all our staffs thumb drives and to be honest I would prefer to make policy that they were just not allowed, although I acept that practically I couldnt do this just yet, but the day is coming....

I don’t mean play an mp3, and I certainly don’t mean an app that plays the theme song for you. I mean, blow into your iPhone,