If you spend a lot of time on the road or interacting with different PCs, portable applications are really handy. You might already carry a small assortment of ...

Stump the PC Club is a tech-advice column written by members of the North Orange County Computer Club, which started in 1976. Visit the club’s site at noccc.org. Q.: I’ve recently read an article that ...

Thumb drives are handy little storage devices. They transport documents, picture files and the like with aplomb. But they also can be used to run programs. This portability lets you use programs on a ...

Lyman E Bertsch needs to run an application on a relative’s computer. Installing the program isn’t an option. Can Lyman run the program off a flash drive? Probably not. But you may be able to find ...

Last week we began a discussion of U3, an emerging standard for controlling and managing applications stored on a USB, flash or thumb drive. This is a very cool idea that creates portable programs – ...