Portable Skype

Getting Skype to work from your USB Drive



Getting Skype to work from your USB Drive can be a life-saver when you're on the road or on a vacation.
It's also good if you want to show it to a friend, or want to use a version that's seperate than the one installed.

The trick is quick simple, and depend on two paramebers which aren't very well documented

This only works with Skype 1.4 and above, and only on Windows (well I'm guessing this because I can't test the mac version)

• Download Skype and install it on any computer.
• Find the Skype.exe from where it was installed.
  (Usually C:\Program Files\Skype\Phone\Skype.exe )
• Copy the Skype.exe file to any directory on your USB Drive
• In that new directory create a directory called "data"
• Now create a file (with notepad) called "skype.bat"
• Edit the "skype.bat" file and place the following line there:
  skype.exe /datapath:"Data" /removable

You're set.

Just clicking on that batch file will make skype start, it'll be different version that any skype installed on the computer you're at, and will even run if skype isn't installed on that computer.

Trillian

Use Trillian Wherever You Go

Install Trillian on your zip Disk, CD, Diskonkey, or any other type of portable media. Take Trillian, your preferences, and your contact list with you wherever you go. Use a fully functional Trillian anywhere, on any computer with an internet connection instead of online clients with limited functionality such as AIM Express and ICQ Lite.

Follow the steps of this online wizard to create your own installation of Trillian that will work wherever you go using any portable media that you can use. This guide will walk you through step-by-step and show you how to achieve this. No technical knowledge is necessary. To begin click here.

Portable Adium

Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client packaged as portable application so you can take your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.

Warning: Data and passwords stored with Keychain are not portable!

Portable Adium is the multiprotocol Adium instant messaging client that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more, packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 50 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your conctact list, emoticons, message stiles, plugins, scripts, sound and users with you.




Download:

• PortableAdium_1.2.1_r4.0.dmg (17.5MB)
  Requires OS X 10.4 or later.

Old release:

• PortableAdiumX_0.89.1_r3.1.dmg (11.9M)
  Requires OS X 10.3.9 or later.
  

1. Drag "Portable Adium" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 40 MB of free space.

2. Clicking "Portable Adium" will open Adium from your portable device, wait a while before Adium start.

3. If a local copy of Adium is running an alert window allow you to quit it.

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gDisk

gDisk is a software that turns your GMail account into a portable hard drive so you can always have your important files accessible accross the Internet.




Download
Application
Start using your online drive today ! Download gDisk 0.6.1.

Source Code
If you want to hack the code, feel free to download and improve gDisk source.

Requirements

• A Mac with Mac OS X (10.3 or above)
• A Google GMail account. To learn how to get one, click here.