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Ever wondered how to make portable applications? OR you already know how to make portable apps but want an easy way out to make them? Guess what! There is a solution available which allows you to make portable applications online and that too without the complexities involved in making one. Read on this post and learn how to go about portable app online! For those of you who are wondering what portable apps actually are? These are standalone applications which does not require any installation to be performed on users machine. These apps are greatly popular now a days because one can carry his favorite apps in a USB device and can run those apps on any machine. Other than this the best feature which you can think of having portable apps is that you can run them without administrator permission on host machine. ( Using portable applications to run application without administrative privileges is just one way to use your favorite appl...

There is this site http://spoon.net/ which offers free virtualized applications over the internet, free of cost. Nothing is installed on your machine so no administrator privileges are required to use these applications. On their website they say “Spoon delivers your apps instantly to any Windows desktop, with no downloads, installs, or hassles. It lets you create web-hosted versions of your existing Windows apps that run instantly from your web site, with no install. Spoon's unique, integrated app virtualization and delivery engine allows most apps to launch after transferring less than 10% of the app content, and completely eliminates installation and dependencies such as the AIR, JRE, Silverlight, and .NET runtimes.” I did some digging in Wikipedia’s Application Streaming section and to my surprise there was no entry for this website, I have added one but don’t know if it gets removed due to their policies. Anyways coming back to Spoon, when I first visited the website, ...

I have heard people saying that they really want to use Photosynth, but the thing is that it wont install without administrator rights. So just to help users who wanna get benefitted from this great piece of technology, here is the first Portable version of Photosynth (v: 2.109.1013.1319) Download Photosynth Portable free! Below is little info about what actually is Photosynth: What is Photosynth? Photosynth creates an amazing new experience with nothing more than a bunch of photos. Creating a synth allows you to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. Whether it’s a quiet creek in the woods of Pennsylvania, or the grandeur of the interior of St Paul’s cathedral, Photosynth puts you there like nothing else can. It can capture the sweeping scale of a mile of the Grand Canal in Venice, and focus in on the exquisite rot at the waterline of a beautifully decaying palazzo doorway...

(Tired of using trial versions? read http://abtevrythng.blogspot.com/2009/05/using-sandboxie-to-bypass-trial-version.html for finding ways to bypass those limitations) (Experience free call to US and Canada visit How to use Gmail Call features outside US )   Following article is for information purposes only! Okay, so you are stuck! You really wanna use this application but lack of administrator privileges doesn’t let you install and use your favorite program… Too bad isn’t it? Well, following are some ways using which you can now use your favorite applications (without installing!) without Administrator privileges. WAY ZERO – Just install ‘em Well, trying always helps! Just download the executable setup and try to install it in a folder you have access/rights/permissions to. For example try to install them in My Documents, or My Pictures folder rather that C:\Program Files. Some program place dll’s in System 32 folder and they will give you an error indicating cann...

Application Virtualization is a software technology that creates software or service isolation on top of the base operating system through a special virtualization layer. The advantage with Application Virtualization is that it completely protects the base operating system from any changes that applications make in the process of installation(be it registry changes, dll modifications, services created etc.). That is because when a virtualized application is prepared, the installation process is not captured; instead, the running state of the application or whatever is required to make the application functional on a base operating system is captured. Application Virtualization Technologies Basically there are two types of methods used for creating virtualized applications; agent based and agent less. Agent based virtualization This type of virtualization is done using streaming technologies. It removes the need for installation of any application locally but the Application virtualiza...

Disclaimer: Please note that this article is for information purposes only. Please use this method only for testing purposes. If you want to use full capabilities of software after the trial period, please purchase ‘em. UPDATE (Want to use your favourite applications without Administrator rights… read my latest blog post Web Hosted Applications to find out more ways to run your applications without admin privileges) (Want to Install/Use your favorite applications but do not have administrator privileges to do that… Then please read http://abtevrythng.blogspot.com/2009/08/using-installing-applications-without.html for a workaround) (Experience free call to US and Canada visit How to use Gmail Call features outside US )   Many times we use software that are bound to be used only for limited period, trial versions are available which let users use fully functional software on trial basis for a limited period of time (like 15 days trial) OR in some cases trial versions c...