The phrase "a portable app" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe an application that can be run from a removable storage device without needing to be installed on a computer.
Example: "I prefer using a portable app for my tasks because I can easily carry it on a USB drive and use it on any computer."
Alternatives: "a portable application" or "a mobile app".
A game that has nothing to do with the brand doesn't do the trick; a portable recipe app that a harried mother can use while at the grocery store does.
Since you typically can't change proxy settings on work or school computers, this is where the portable app shines.
To see this column with complete product graphics and an additional "TWW Notes" discussion of the impressive "Portable Apps" platform (which virtually allows you to carry a computer on your keychain), visit the WGA website.
Contest participants can then access and engage with the same contest from multiple locations around the web, effectively making it a way to turn contests into essentially portable apps.
As time as passed, these little suckers have grown from a nice, odd convenience to something that can border on a computer in your pocket (if you install software like Portable Apps, U3, urDrive, or Ceedo Virtual PC, which allow a wide range of programs that take up little space to run).
Go to http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/PortableApps.com_Suite_Setup_1.6.1_English.exe and download your copy of Portable Apps with Open Office Insert a flash drive into your PC and run the Portable Apps installation program.
The OpenStack Foundation argues that it can offer the infrastructure layer for integrating with cluster managers and that the two technologies together can actually help enable developers build portable apps.
Increasingly, Steve Jobs' Apple is leading the way in marketing and catering to the need of mainstream digital customers who lead portable, app-obsessed lives.
It's important to note that if you're interested in the urDrive features, it's very similar to other free software, like Portable Apps, which can be installed on any Flash drive.
From the Portable Apps menu options select OpenOffice.org Writer Portable and open the Open Office word processor.
