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1. Slide 1: Portable, Open Source Applications on a USB Flash Drive Steve C. Yuen, Ph.D. Professor The University of Southern Mississippi E-mail: Steve.Yuen@usm.edu And Patrivan K. Yuen Technical Services/Systems Librarian William Carey University E-mail: pyuen@wmcarey.edu http://dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/present/the/the07a.pdf
2. Slide 2: Content • Overview of USB Flash Drives • What is Portable Application? • What is Open Source? • Open Source in Higher Education • Portable, Open Source Applications for Teaching & Learning • Resources
3. Slide 3: USB Flash Drives
4. Slide 4: USB Flash Drives • AKA thumb drives, jump drives, pen drives, keychain drives, USB keys, or USB sticks. • Small, lightweight, removable data storage device of up to 16 GB. • Portable storage solutions for anyone on the GO. • A floppy-killer. • Use USB 1.1 or 2.0 for data transfers. • Often ship with a file-synchronization software to make quick backups and a encryption software for secure access.
5. Slide 5: Common Uses of USB Flash Drives • Carry personal data around to access in a variety of places. • Used by network administrators for loading configuration information and software used for system maintenance, troubleshooting, and recovery. • Use as MP3 players. • Use as a bootable flash drive with emergency security applications for reviving compromised computers. • Carry portable applications that run on the host computer without requiring installation.
6. Slide 6: Portable Application • A portable application is a computer program that you can carry around with you on a portable device and use on any Windows computer. • Not require any form of formal installation to be carried out on any computer before it can be used. • Settings are stored with, and can be carried around with, the software. • Leave a zero (or near-zero) \"footprint\" on any PC it's run on after being used. • All temporary files/registry settings should be removed once the program has exited.
7. Slide 7: Portable Applications on USB Flash Drives • Convenience, safe, easy to use, and self-contained applications. • Carry programs and personal preferences anywhere, anytime, on almost any computer. • Have your email and instant messaging accounts, bookmarks, log-on passwords, and document templates available on any computer. • Carry enough applications to serve as a personal office on the road. • Access programs on any computer with no trace behind. • Run entirely from the USB drive without installation.
8. Slide 8: What is Open-Source? • Open source describes practices in production and development that promote access to the end product's source materials (source code). • Code is available for all to see. • Code may be modified by anyone. • Modifications must be shared. • Licensed under an approved Open Source license. • Well-known open-source projects include the Linux OS, the Apache Web server, and the Firefox browser. • www.opensource.org
9. Slide 9: Why Open Source? • Enable community development • Thrives on distributed efforts • Empowers communities of practice • Enables innovation • Requires participation • Transparency provides security • Lower barrier to entry • Enable new business models • The “right” thing to do
10. Slide 10: Open source is like... • Changing & sharing curriculum • Changing & sharing cooking recipes • Experimenting • Improving • Customizing
11. Slide 11: Open Source in Higher Education • Open the door to a worldwide community of expert software. • Encourage the development of 21th century skills for students. • Allow students legal hacking, manipulate, customize, and improve open source applications • Allow professors to work collaboratively within a global community toward the end of improving a product for the good of all. • Free schools of a dependency on expensive commercial software. • Keep students from pirating software and violating proprietary licensing agreements. • Allow students, professors, administrators, and parents to exchange electronic documents. • Minimize cost and allow funding to be diverted to equipment and other programs.
12. Slide 12: Portable Internet Applications • Portable Firefox • Web browser • Portable Thunderbird • Email client • Portable NVU • Web authoring tool • FileZilla • FTP and secure FTP • Portable Gaim • Instant messaging client • Download at [portableapps.com/apps] or [johnhaller.com/jh/]
13. Slide 13: Portable Firefox • Full-featured Web browser. • Available for Windows and Linux/UNIX. • Include popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating. • Leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you wherever you go.
14. Slide 14: Portable Firefox
15. Slide 15: Portable Thunderbird • Easy to use email client. • Available for Windows and Linux/UNIX. • Include quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP and RSS support. • Leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and address book with you wherever you go.
16. Slide 16: Portable Thunderbird
17. Slide 17: Portable NVU • Available for Windows and Linux/UNIX. • A complete Web Authoring System that combines file management and WYSIWYG Web page editing. • Integrated file management via FTP. • Can jump between WYSIWYG Editing Mode and HTML using tabs. • Tabbed editing to make working on multiple pages. • Support for forms, tables, and templates. • Download at [www.nvu.com]
18. Slide 18: Portable NVU
19. Slide 19: FileZilla • A fast and reliable FTP client. • Available for Windows and Linux/UNIX. • Support resume on both downloads and uploads, timeout detection, firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 support, SSL and SFTP. • Drag and drop interface.
20. Slide 20: FileZilla
21. Slide 21: Portable Gaim • A multi-protocol instant messaging client that works with AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo. • For Windows only. • Log into multiple networks with the same program. • All your IM settings and buddy lists are self- contained, so it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on.
22. Slide 22: Portable Gaim
23. Slide 23: PuTTY Portable • A telnet and SSH client for Windows, along with an xterm terminal emulator. • Securely connect to your systems while on the go. • For Windows only
24. Slide 24: Open Office • Portable, multilingual office suite. • A full-featured office suite that's compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. • Include a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, drawing package & database. • Download at [www.openoffice.org]
25. Slide 25: OpenOffice - Writer
26. Slide 26: OpenOffice - Calc
27. Slide 27: OpenOffice - Impress
28. Slide 28: OpenOffice - Draw
29. Slide 29: OpenOffice - Base
30. Slide 30: OpenOffice - Math
31. Slide 31: Portable AbiWord • Portable word processing program. • For Windows only • Read and write a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, OpenOffice.org, RTF, HTML, and Palm. • Download at [www.abisource.com]
32. Slide 32: Portable Sunbird • A standalone calendaring and task management application. • Available for Windows and Linux/UNIX. • Keep your calendar and tasks up-to-date. • Leave no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your schedule and to do lists with you wherever you go. • Download at [johnhaller.com/jh/]
33. Slide 33: Portable Sunbird
34. Slide 34: GIMP Portable • GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image editing software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. • For Windows only. • Can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. • Download at [portableapps.com]
35. Slide 35: GIMP Portable
36. Slide 36: Audacity Portable • An easy-to-use audio editor and recorder. • For Windows only • Record live audio. • Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs. • Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files. • Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together. • Change the speed or pitch of a recording. • Download at [portableapps.com]
37. Slide 37: Audacity Portable
38. Slide 38: Sumatra PDF Portable • A PDF viewer for Windows. • A minimalistic design. • It's small and starts up very fast. • Download at [portableapps.com]
39. Slide 39: 7-Zip Portable • A file archiver (compression) utility for Windows. • Compress 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. • Download at [portableapps.com]
40. Slide 40: ClamWin Portable • A Standalone Virus Scanner for Windows. • High detection rates for viruses and spyware. • Update virus databases. • Download at [portableapps.com]
41. Slide 41: KeePass Password Safe Portable • A password manager for Windows. • Put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. • The databases are encrypted using the secure encryption algorithms. • Download at [portableapps.com]
42. Slide 42: TrueCrypt • Disk encryption software for Windows and Linux. • Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a storage device such as USB flash drive. • Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent. • Download at [www.truecrypt.org]
43. Slide 43: InfraRecorder • CD/DVD burning solution for Windows. • Create custom data, audio and mixed-mode projects and record them to physical discs as well as disc images. • Supports recording to dual- layer DVDs. • Record disc images (ISO and BIN/CUE) • Download at [infrarecorder.sourceforge.net]
44. Slide 44: TiddlyWiki • A portable Wiki. • Work well with Firefox portable. • Download at [www.tiddlywiki.com]
45. Slide 45: Resources • PortableApps.com • PortableFreeware.com • JohnHaller.com • standalone.atspace.org • tinyapps.org • www.kikizas.net/en/usbapps.html • www.osef.org • www.schoolforge.net • seul.org
46. Slide 46: THE END Questions or Comments? Thank You for Attending Our session! This presentation is available on the Web at: dragon.ep.usm.edu/~yuen/present/the/the07a.pdf