Recently I have been quietly enjoying the Mozilla Firefox and OpenOffice softwares installed in my hospital ward computer, without the admin people knowing it -- thanks to PortableApps making it possible. Most of us who work in big hospitals, will have access to the internet using IE, which is pre-installed. Many of us don't have the admin rights to install new softwares into the computers, because they are usually server based, ie. unless you have the admin password to do so! So even if you are a Firefox addict, you won't be able to install it to use in the hospital computers. But now, thanks to the PortableApps, we can surf net using Firefox anywhere, anytime. Very simple, just download and install the Portable Firefox into your thumbdrive, and bring your thumbdrive everywhere. Plug into the computer, and run the firefox from your thumbdrive. That's it, just so simple!
Some of the computers in my hospital do not have Microsoft Office installed, and the IT team is not willing to take the effort to install the Portable OpenOffice (which is a freeware) in them as well (strange people...) So again, with PortableApps, I successfully install the OpenOffice (inclusive of Word, Excel and PowerPoint equivalent) into my thumbdrive and use it in any computer with ease -- can even detect the default printer and print documents too! ;)
Try and you will enjoy it!
No comments:
Post a Comment