Comments on: TinyApps: Small Is Beautiful http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/tinyapps-small-is-beautiful/ Rebooting the workforce Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:29:46 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Todd Andrews http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/tinyapps-small-is-beautiful/#comment-298405 Todd Andrews Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:50:14 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2723#comment-298405 Very interesting. I noticed they didn't have Adobe Reader on their site. Very interesting. I noticed they didn’t have Adobe Reader on their site.

]]> By: RPT http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/tinyapps-small-is-beautiful/#comment-298403 RPT Tue, 08 Jul 2008 13:09:07 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2723#comment-298403 I loved TinyApps till it started showing banners advertising a neo-Nazi Confederate presidential candidate on the front page, which turned me off the site for a while. I'm glad to see the banners are gone. I loved TinyApps till it started showing banners advertising a neo-Nazi Confederate presidential candidate on the front page, which turned me off the site for a while. I’m glad to see the banners are gone.

]]> By: jonpeltier http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/07/07/tinyapps-small-is-beautiful/#comment-298397 jonpeltier Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:29:59 +0000 http://webworkerdaily.com/?p=2723#comment-298397 "...that’s small enough to easily tote on a USB key" So's Microsoft Office, if you consider that the smallest USB drives you can get now are at least a gig. Size hardly matters anymore. What does matter is whether the program can work in standalone mode, without requiring information that's stashed in the registry, and without depending on other utilities and libraries to be present on the host computer. “…that’s small enough to easily tote on a USB key”

So’s Microsoft Office, if you consider that the smallest USB drives you can get now are at least a gig. Size hardly matters anymore.

What does matter is whether the program can work in standalone mode, without requiring information that’s stashed in the registry, and without depending on other utilities and libraries to be present on the host computer.

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