del.icio.us is a social bookmarking website -- the primary use of del.icio.us is to store your bookmarks online, which allows you to access the same bookmarks from any computer and add bookmarks from anywhere, too. On del.icio.us, you can use tags to organize and remember your bookmarks, which is a much more flexible system than folders.

You can also use del.icio.us to see the interesting links that your friends and other people bookmark, and share links with them in return. del.icio.us is also a good search engine because you can use to to find the cool and useful bookmarks that everyone else has saved.

You can save bookmarks to your del.icio.us account by installing bookmarklets or a Firefox extension, both available in the "help" section on the del.icio.us site.

Portable Apps (for Windows)

Portable Apps lets you carry entire applications with you, letting you use them on any Windows computer. You can save the applications (and all of your settings) on a USB key, iPod, portable hard drive, etc. The program is open source, and totally free.

The list of available applications is always growing, including Firefox, Gaim, Thunderbird, GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), and OpenOffice

For more information: http://portableapps.com

FreeSMUG (Portable applications for Mac OSX)

OS X FOSS portable applications are packaged so that you can carry them around on any portable device (like Portable Apps for Windows). When you open a Portable version of an application, an applescript is also launched that keeps the computer from writing application data to the harddrive and instead writes it to your USB Key or iPod or external hard drive.

Available applications include Firefox, Thunderbird, Adium, Cyberduck (FTP client), GIMP, OpenOffice, Safari, Mail, iCal, Address Book, iChat, and SyncPAppX, a program that helps you sync portable applications with local ones.

For more information: http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps/

Remember the Milk

This online task manager supports a variety of organizational “styles” and will send reminders via email, SMS, or IM. http://www.rememberthemilk.com/

Firefox Extensions & Google Apps to keep your organized

Adding extensions to your browser (both your at-home and your USB key version) can make your “surfing” a lot more efficient – Firefox is fully customizable with a number of extensions, many of them written by users! And, if you already have Gmail, there are plenty of useful Google services that you can add on to your account.

* Google Apps with the little beaker are part of Google Labs, which means they are still in development.

	Google Personalized Homepage (iGoogle): Customize your homepage to include widget-like "gadgets."
	Google Notebook: Clip and collect information as you browse the web, and organize your “clippings” into different notebooks by topic. The Firefox extension for Google Notebook allows you to quickly save a url+note. http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
	GSpace: Use your Gmail account for file storage! http://www.getgspace.com/
	Browser Sync: synchronizes your browser settings (including bookmarks, history, cookies, passwords, and sessions) across multiple computers. http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/
	Del.icio.us Firefox Extension: Quickly tag websites and search del.icio.us for similar pages. http://del.icio.us/help/firefox/extension
	Google Docs & Spreadsheets: Create and share your projects online and access them from anywhere – it’s a great way to save a project that you're working on from various locations so that you don't misplace a version. http://docs.google.com
	Google Calendar: Organize your schedule and share events with friends or clubs, you can also subscribe to your online calendar using iCal or Outlook. http://calendar.google.com
	Google Reader: Web-based RSS-feed reader that can help you organize all of your RSS feeds in one place so you don't miss anything. You can subscribe to blogs and feeds using a bookmarklet and read your feeds from any computer, all you need to do is log into your Google account. http://www.google.com/reader/

You can also check out the More Google Products page for more great Google-ness.

Pidgin

Pidgin is an instant messenger buddy that works across all major IM networks and offers access to a growing number of web applications, as well as productivity tools like notes, reminders, and todo's. http://pidgin.im/pidgin/home/

Meebo

Instant Message from anywhere on AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk, ICQ and Jabber, no downloads or installs required http://wwwl.meebo.com/

Google Talk

Instant Message and call your friends through your computer, either using the GTalk client or online whenever you are logged into Gmail (just click "Pop-out").