Where are the Mac OS X portable applications?

The link was missing in my previous post but here it is:

http://www.macworld.com/2006/10/secrets/novmobilemac/index.php

Read this recent published article :

Your apps in your pocket |Mobile Mac
By Joe Kissell - MacWorld
"Imagine carrying the applications you use all the time—a Web browser, an e-mail client, a word processor, and even an image editor—in your pocket, ready to run on any Mac (and in some cases, Windows PCs), with all your preferences and plug-ins just the way you want them. Welcome to the world of portable applications."
Read more:

for everyone wanting to uninstall U3:

http://u3.com/uninstall/final.aspx

created by U3 themselves. you'll need windows.

Each time I plug this thing into my mac, the thumbdrive pops up, but so does the blasted US3 install for windows? Does anyone know how to get rid of this blasted extra pop up?

Ha! I've got one of those U3 devices and I thought I'd just erase the U3 part of it too. It's annoying it always loads right away when I plug the thing into a PC. So I reformatted and partitioned the thing (1 for windows, the other for my portable Mac apps such as Cyberduck). When the reformat completed U3 still existed. I've talked to other Windoze users about this, and they are equally annoyed by the inability to get rid of the stupid thing.

So good luck getting rid of U3. You're stuck with the blasted thing.

Errrr, the device this guy is looking at is USB. USB should pose no problem whatsoever.

Don't forget Micromat's Protege:
http://www.micromat.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=34

Re: #34, Dan are you sure? I did your clue copying app and preferences on my external drive, but everytime a new/vanilla preference folder is created in my ~/Library/Application Support.
Is there someone that can confirm me Dan's tip?

I used U3 for a little while, then found John Haller's collection of Windows portable apps (portableapps.com). Using those combined with the PStart (http://www.pegtop.net/start/) application launcher (Windows only), I now have a much leaner and more customizable portable system.

"(these applications all have to be custom-built, and the U3 board has to approve them into the fold). Setting aside any obligatory discussion about security, this is an absolutely killer ability for the mobile nerd in many of us."

Safe? Hah.

http://hak5.org/wiki/USB_Hacksaw
http://hak5.org/wiki/USB_Switchblade

Check out what the (very talented) hackers at this site have done. These apps take advantage of how the U3 launcher works (U3 emulates a CD drive, thus enabling the launcher to Auto-Run) to dump their payload completely silently, with no notification whatsoever to the user (all they need to do is be plugged in when the current user has administrative privleges).

While such hacks would of course be more difficult to implement in OSX (we hope), I really don't like dancing with the devil in that respect. Windows can keep its U3, I'll just carry my iBook with me (which I do anyway).