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The Ultimate Round-Up Of T-Shirt Design Tutorials
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via Smashing Magazine by Callum Chapman on 10/16/09
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Among all of the graphic designers in the world, many of them have probably had a go at designing some cool artwork for t-shirts. The t-shirt, after all, is one of the world's most purchased products, and a lot of us wouldn't know what to do without them!
If you have yet to design for apparel goods, today is your lucky day! Below, we present over 20 useful t-shirt graphic tutorials written by fellow designers, followed by a selection of great resources (such as vector apparel mock-up templates), an inspirational showcase to get your brain thinking and some great websites where you can submit your new t-shirt graphics.
You may be interested in the following related posts:
- The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
- 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing
- Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
T-Shirt Graphic Tutorials
Create a Balanced T-Shirt Graphic
- Work with vector image tools to trace stock photos.
- Learn how to make great compositions.
How to Design a T-Shirt on a Budget and a Tight Deadline
- Use existing vector packs to produce new graphics.
- Work with limited color schemes.
- Work with the Saturation Settings to manipulate photos.
- Use the Circular Marquee Tool to produce custom shapes.
Super-Slick Screen-Printing Separations with Illustrator
- Set up documents and bleeds ready for screen printing.
- Use Calligraphic Brushes to trace photographs.
- Separate colors to be ready for screen printing.
How to Create Photorealistic T-Shirt Mock-Ups
- Use apparel templates to produce realistic digital mock-ups.
- Use layer masks to hide unwanted areas of a graphic.
- Simulate silk screen imperfections in Photoshop.
- Learn how to use alpha channels.
Create a Custom T-Shirt Stencil Design
- Create stencils for your t-shirt artwork.
- Use craft knifes and spray paint to produce home-made t-shirts.
- Get your hands dirty and produce home-made screen-printed t-shirts.
- Use various objects from around the home to save money on one-off production tees.
Separating Colors for Screen Printing in Photoshop
- Use the Magic Wand Tool to select individual colors.
- Use registration marks to help line up artwork when screen printing.
How to Win at Design by Humans
- Learn tips and tricks for submitting your artwork to Design by Humans.
- Use Pantone Color books to get your colors correct.
How to Prepare Artwork for Screen Printing in Illustrator
- Use various Pathfinder Tools to separate your colors.
- Use the Magic Wand Tool to select individual colors.
Designing Ultra SceneXCore Apparel
- Manipulate stock photos using various tools.
- Use existing vector images to spice up your artwork.
Create a Three-Color Illustration for Screen-Printing
- Separate colors in Photoshop to be ready for screen printing.
- Learn about trapping to avoid slight alignment on press.
Easy Color Separations for Screen-Printing in Photoshop
- Learn the process of screen printing and how it all works.
- Learn how to separate your artwork colors in Photoshop.
How to Create Awesome T-Shirt Mock-Ups like Jimiyo
- Use the Transform Tool to correctly position your artwork.
- Use the highlight and shadow levels to give your digital mock-up a realistic look.
- Combine Photoshop and Illustrator to produce stunning artwork.
- Use an imported sketch as a guideline.
Rapid-Fire Illustration Tutorial
- Use the Live Trace Tool to quickly and effectively trace traditional ink drawings.
- Use the Pen Tool to create custom shapes.
How to Create a T-Shirt from Scratch
- Use various Photoshop Tools to create custom shapes.
- Use the Polygonal Lasso Tool to delete unwanted areas of artwork.
Create a Complete Apparel Tech Pack
- Learn how to prepare your files correctly.
- Learn how to separate colors correctly.
CMYK Process Printing for the Emerging T-Shirt Designer
- Learn how to mix existing resources to create a good composition.
- Work with unusual color schemes to produce eye-catching artwork.
Digital T-Shirt Mock-Up Resources
After giving a few of the above tutorials the once over, you should have enough knowledge to begin making your own separated t-shirt artwork. Below are several links we have collected to help you present your work in the most stylish way possible.
GoMedia Ultimate Apparel Vector Collection
T-Shirt Templates: Free and Paid
Huge Collection of T-Shirt Design Mock-Up Templates
T-Shirt Inspiration
Now you've got everything you need… except maybe for some ideas! Take a look at these great inspirational posts to help you get your thinking cap on!
- 20 Awesome T-Shirt Illustrations by Glennz
- 50 Best T-shirt Designs of 2008
- 40 Rad Vintage T-Shirt Designs
- 30 Kick-Ass Vector Based T-Shirts from Top Designers
- 30 Clever and Cool T-Shirt Designs You Will Love
- Super-Cool '80s T-Shirt Designs
- 20 Super-Cool T-Shirt Designs
- Amazing Typography T-Shirt Designs
- Designer Tees: Wear your art on your sleeve!
- 20 T-Shirts Designs about Typography
- Geek Fashion: 55 Fresh T-Shirts for the Creative Community
- Tasty Designer T-Shirts
- T-Shirt Factory's Photostream
Where To Sell And Submit Your Artwork
Below we have collected various online stores and open-ended competitions that invite you to submit your t-shirt designs, with the chance of getting them printed and taking home some well-earned cash!
- Design by Humans
An ongoing design contest and community where artists and t-shirt lovers can create, buy and talk about everything related to art and t-shirts. - Threadless
Threadless is a community-based tee-shirt company with an ongoing open call for design submissions. - Teetonic
Teetonic is about passion for design. It wants to create the best t-shirts and is always open for submissions. - Allmightys
Submit designs to win tees, commisions, fame, friends and more! - Oddica
Submit your artwork for a chance to earn 41% of every sale made. - Zazzle
Make money online by selling your designs on hundreds of retail-quality products! It's free and easy. - Cafepress
Design, make and sell your t-shirts. - La Fraise
This is pretty much the French version of Design by Humans. - Spreadshirt
Create your own t-shirt shop for free, and fill it with your very own designs. - BigCartel
BigCartel is a simple shopping cart for artists. Create an account and start selling!
Related posts
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- The Ultimate Round-Up of Print Design Tutorials
- 50 Clever Tutorials and Techniques on Traditional Drawing
- Back-to-School With 40 Excellent Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
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October 12, 2009
6 Great Twitter Quiz and Polling Apps
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2. Strawpoll: Strawpoll offers users the opportunity to create 140 character polls in Twitter itself. Rather than redirecting users off the site to give their answers, the tool allows Twitter followers to choose from one of two responses directly in their Twitter dashboard. Users only have to visit Strawpoll if they want to see the final tally.
3. TwtPoll: TwtPoll is just one of a number of products created by TwtApps. Some of the others include Twtcards and Twtvite. This service allows users to create more than 17 different types of polls and syncs with Facebook, Twitter and Friendfeed. Rather than polling within the tool, response participants are redirected to Twtpoll via a short URL.
5. SocialToo's SocialSurvey: This service lets users create polls for a number of services including Facebook and Twitter. Similar to Poll Daddy's tool, the service creates simple multiple choice questions. Upon answering questions, users see results on the SocialToo site in neat bar graph format.
6. TweetBrain: And last but not least, this service allows users to answer basic open-ended questions via Twitter. In order to provide incentive for answers, users can choose to attach rewards to their questions. The person who best answers the question receives a cash bonus.
We know we're just skimming the surface. If you've got your favorite Twitter polling resources, let us know in the comments below.
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On Twitter, Information Beats Sentiment
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on 10/2/09
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More Tweets are Information-Seeking, Not Opinions
According to the study, which looked at 150,000 tweets, 11.1% of the brand-related tweets were information-providing while 18.1% were information-seeking. The latter of these two is especially useful to companies looking to understand what questions and concerns customers have about their products. However, the large majority of the tweets - 48.5% - were simply comments made in passing which mentioned the brand but whose primary focus was something else.
The remaining 22.3% of tweets were sentiment-related, meaning tweets in which a user was expressing an opinion about a brand, either negative or positive. What was surprising about this subset was that users were more likely to express positive tweets than they were to complain.
Why So Cheery, Twitter?
This seems odd, actually, given that the Internet has typically been a place for disgruntled consumers to rant and rave more so than it's been a place to praise what works. You can see this type of negative sentiment expressed everywhere from online forums to whiny blog posts about how such-and-such company "did me wrong!" In fact, the desire to express a negative opinion even seems to dominate feedback systems like blog comments, for example. Rarely does a writer receive comments like "great post" or "I totally agree" - rather, more comments resemble "you're wrong and here's why" or "how could you not mention X?"
That's why it's strange to hear that on Twitter, it's positive sentiment that reigns. What makes this platform different from the rest of the Internet as a whole? Are Twitter users simply happier people? Or has the data been skewed by marketing campaigns where Twitter users are encouraged to tweet nice things about the company in order to win a prize?
Perhaps it's because Twitter simply makes it easier to express yourself, allowing for a better balance between negative and positive sentiments. Typically, sharing your opinion on the web meant exerting a good deal of effort. Writing a blog post, recording a video, or leaving a blog comment are things that take time. For the most part, busy, information-overloaded web surfers aren't going to take that time unless something really gets them fired up. Twitter, on the other hand, is so quick and easy to use, you can post a missive of joy in only seconds. And the 140-character limit allows you a no-pressure way of doing so.
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October 08, 2009
40+ Desert Island Web Development Tools
via Smashing Magazine by Cameron Chapman on 9/29/09
What would you do if you were suddenly stranded on a desert island in the middle of nowhere, with only a USB drive, a dial-up internet connection, and a barebones computer with no software outside the operating system installed? Of course, you'd use the internet connection to call for help first, but what about after that? How would you keep your design business going?
Okay, maybe a scenario that's a bit more likely would work better. What if your computer crashed, wiping out all of your data and programs, and you have a deadline in two days? Or maybe you want to be able to pick up and leave at a moment's notice without taking anything more than a change of clothes and a USB drive. If you have the apps below, neither of those scenarios would be much of a problem.
The apps on this list can help you with everything from coding to graphics to running your business and managing your projects, all from a single USB drive. And while USB drives are getting bigger all the time (last I checked a 64GB one wasn't too badly priced, and that's 4GB more storage than my current MacBook has), you still need special programs in most instances to have true portability. The apps below are just that: truly portable and small enough to fit on a USB drive (often a very small USB drive).
Coding
Notepad++ Portable Edition
Notepad++ Portable Edition is a coding application that includes all the features you'd expect in a coding app. It's written in C++ and runs on Windows. It's open source and was released under the GPL license.
The portable edition includes all the features of the regular version. It has multi-view, supports a multi-language environment, a WYSIWYG editor, auto-complete, syntax highlighting and folding, and macro recording and playback, among its other features. It's a great lightweight coding app.
Nvu Portable
Nvu Portable is the portable edition of Nvu Web Authoring Software. It includes a WYSIWYG editor and powerful file management. It's aimed at users who might not be particularly technically savvy and only have a limited knowledge (or none at all) of HTML and CSS.
The portable edition has all the features and capabilities of the regular version. It works on Windows systems, and was released under the open source GPL license.
Oiko CSS Editor
Oiko CSS Editor is a full-featured CSS, (X)HTML and XML editor in a portable format. It works on Windows 98 through XP. It's a fairly robust editor, with an easy-to-use interface, grouped view of properties and selectors, a tree view of your CSS's structure, and includes active preview in both IE and Mozilla browsers.
Graphics and Multimedia
Blender Portable
Blender Portable is a portable version of the Blender 3D rendering program. It works with the PortableApps.com platform. The portable version includes all the features of the regular version of Blender.
Blender has a range of features for rigging, modeling, animating and rendering 3D images. It has a fully customizable window layout and a non-overlaping, non-blocking UI. And it includes a built-in text editor for annotations and editing Python scripts.
GIMP Portable
GIMP Portable is a good alternative to Adobe Photoshop in a portable format. While GIMP's user interface takes a bit of getting used to compared to other photo editing programs, it's actually quite flexible.
The portable version of GIMP has all the features of the full version, including layers and filters. It can also be extended and expanded, just like the full version.
Lightscreen Portable
Lightscreen Portable is a portable app that runs on Windows and lets you take screenshots of the desktop of whatever computer you're on. It will perform five configurable actions (to capture window, screen, etc.) and each has its own hotkey.
Lightscreen will save images in PNG, JPEG and common other image formats. It also has a delay function for taking screenshots. It runs as a hidden background process and is activated with one or more hotkeys.
Portable Audacity OS X
Portable Audacity is portable audio editing software for Mac OS X. Audacity has tons of features, including the ability to record live audio, edit (including the ability to edit and mix an unlimited number of tracks), add effects to audio files, and work with a variety of different file formats.
While the full version of Audacity is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux machines, the portable version is available for Mac OS X and Windows. Considering it's open source, it makes sense that a portable version for Linux would be developed if there's enough demand.
Portable Inkscape OS X
Portable Inkscape is a portable vector graphics editing program. Inkskape has features similar to other vector graphics programs, including Illustrator, CorelDraw, and Xara X. It saves graphics in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format.
There is extensive documentation available for Inkscape on their website, a big plus if you're new to using it. The portable version is only available for Mac OS X, though the full version is also available for Linux and Windows.
FastStone Capture
FastStone Capture is a portable screen capture utility. You can capture anything on your screen: windows, full screen, rectangular regions, objecs, freehand regions, and even scrolling windows (a big plus over many other screen-capture programs, portable or not).
Other features include the ability to add text annotations to captures, resize them, and use hotkeys for specific functions. FastStone Capture only works on Windows systems, but is compatible with Windows98 right up through Vista.
Fotografix
Fotografix is a portable graphics program that lets you both edit and create images. There are brush tools, support for custom brushes, layer and channel support (including adjustment layers and masking), and a variety of other tools included.
One of Fotografix's biggest advantages, though, is it's tiny file size: it's only 367KB. If you want a really lightweight and easy to use graphics editor, Fotografix might be the right choice for you. However, it's not as robust as a program like Photoshop, so keep that in mind.
Artweaver
Artweaver is a portable, freeware paint program. It lets you create sketches right from photos and includes a wide variety of brushes. It also lets you create new brushes and customize existing ones.
Artweaver also supports transparency and layers, and a variety of image formats (JPG, PNG, PSD, and more). It's expandable via plugins, too. Artweaver works on Windows 2000, XP, or Vista.
VLC Media Player Portable
VLC Media Player Portable is a portable media player for using audio and video files. It will play MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, WMV, MP3, and a host of other file formats. And, in addition to playing your various media files, it can also act as a media server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6.
Winamp Lite
Winamp Lite is the portable version of Winamp MP3 player software. Skins and plugins are also portable, making this another great solution for listening to MP3s on the go. Portable setup is a bit involved but not particularly complicated.
File Management
FileZilla Portable
FileZilla Portable is another PortableApps.com application for FTP. It supports FTP, FTPS, and SFTP file transfers, as well as management for transferring large files (over 4GB). There are tons of configuration options. It also supports HTTP/1.1, SOCKS5 and FTP-proxy, and includes logging to file, synchronized directory browsing, and remote file search.
WinSCP Portable
WinSCP Portable is an FTP program for Windows that includes SFTP and SCP protocols and directory synchronization. It's been around for awhile but performs all common file operations and has an integrated text editor. It also supports batch file scripting and a command-line interface in addition to a GUI.
7-Zip Portable
7-Zip Portable is a PortableApps.com program that lets you compress and uncompress a variety of archived file types, including 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, and RAR files. It also supports creating encrypted 7z and ZIP archives and includes a powerful file manager. There are localizations for 63 languages available with the portable edition.
Toucan
Toucan lets Windows users back up and sync data between two drives (like your hard drive and USB drive). It's completely portable and free to download. There are a variety of advanced backup settings you can use, including incremental backups with compression and advanced rulesets.
Testing
XAMPP
XAMPP is a complete, portable web server package of Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl. It's preconfigured, so all you need to do is unzip and install it. It includes phpMyAdmin, FileZilla FTP Server, SQLite, the Zend Optimizer, and MiniPerl, among other features. It's a complete web, FTP and database server in a single package. There's also a lite version that includes Apache, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, SQLite, and their related packages.
Portable Firefox
Portable Firefox is the portable edition of Mozilla Firefox. It's a great app to take with you for working on other people's computers, as you can store and access your own bookmarks, passwords, and preferences. The portable edition doesn't leave anything behind on the computer you're using, so you can be secure in saving your passwords and other information. It even appears to work with any extensions you install. It's a PortableApps.com app, so it's only available for Windows machines.
Don't forget if you're using Portable Firefox to also make sure you've downloaded some of the useful web development add-ons available.
- Firebug – For viewing and on-page editing of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
- CSS Viewer – A basic CSS property viewer.
- HTML Validator – An HTML validator toolbar for Firefox.
- Web Developer – Adds a menu and toolbar with various tools for web developers.
- CodeBurner – An HTML and CSS reference guide built into Firefox.
Instant Rails
Instant Rails is a Ruby runtime solution with Ruby on Rails, Apache and MySQL, all ready to run. All you have to do is put it in the directory you choose and run it; there are no installation files.
Server2Go
Server2Go is a server package available with a variety of different configurations. There are packages that include Apache, PHP and SQLite; Apache, PHP, SQLite, and MySQL; Apache, PHP, SQLite, MySQL, and Perl; as well as mini packages (with only the needed files) and a "plain vanilla" package that doesn't include PHP, Perl, or MySQL).
Portable Chrome
Portable Chrome is the portable vesion of Google's Chrome browser. It includes all the features of the regular Chrome browser, including better stability and speed, tabbed browsing, and search right from the address bar.
Opera@USB
http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm is a portable version of the Opera web browser. It's very similar to the desktop version, though the differences aren't expounded upon in the documentation for the app. The full version (and presumably the portable version) includes tabbed browsing, a password manager, an inline spell checker, and support for savable browsing sessions.
MoWeS Portable
MoWeS Portable is a portable web server for Windows. It's been tested on Windows 98 through Vista. It's free and released under the GNU/GPL license. The server is based on Apache, MySQL, and PHP. The biggest difference between MoWeS and many other portable server packages is that you can download MoWeS preconfigured with a variety of software options, including TYPO3, WordPress, PHPMyAdmin, OS Commerce, Drupal, Mambo, Joomla!, and others.
Planning and Productivity
Dia Portable
Dia Portable is a diagramming app similar to Microsoft Visio. It's more focused on informal diagrams than Visio, though, and is great for casual use. It works with XML files, and also includes the ability to export files to EPS, SVG, PNG, WMF, and XFIG files. Dia also lets you print diagrams (including multi-page ones).
It's compatible with Linux, Unix, and Windows systems. It can be used to draw UML diagrams, flowcharts, and other types of diagrams.
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition is a Windows and Linux compatible calendar application. It's a full-featured, stand-alone calendar application, perfect for scheduling and simple project management.
ToDoList
ToDoList is a portable project management and task list manager. It lets you subdivide tasks an unlimited number of times to make them more manageable. And it saves your task lists in XML format so that you can format them with stylesheets.
ToDoList is under constant development and is suitable for IT project management as well as more general task management (like the GTD method). There are French and Spanish versions available in addition to English.
Task Coach Portable
Task Coach Portable is another task manager that lets you manage your to-do list and tasks on the go. Features include an easy-to-use UI that makes it easy to create, organize, and manage tasks, as well as the ability to set a budget for particular tasks, set start dates and deadlines for each task, and more.
Business
GnuCash Portable
GnuCash Portable is another PortableApps.com application. It's an open source financial management app with most of the features of commercial finance programs. It works with double-entry accounting, stock/bond/mutual fund accounts, and can handle invoices and accounts payable and receivable.
GnuCash is perfect for small business accounting and bookkeeping. It uses a checkbook-style register to make it easier for new users to learn. It also handles reports and graphs, multiple currencies, statement reconciliation, and more.
OpenOffice.org Portable
OpenOffice.org Portable is the PortableApps.com version of the open source OpenOffice.org suite of business programs. It includes all of the regular OpenOffice.org applications: Writer (a word processor), Calc (spreadsheets), Impress (presentations), Draw (graphics), and Base (database).
OpenOffice.org is a great alternative to Microsoft Office and provides much of the same functionality in a free and open source package. It's very easy to use in comparison with many other office suites, and it's free.
AbiWord Portable
AbiWord Portable is a word processor that can open a variety of files from other word processing programs, including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, Open Document (OpenOffice.org), Office Open XML, RTF, HTML, and more. It includes all the basic functions you'd expect in a word processor, including spelling and grammar check and mail merge.
The portable version is built on the PortableApps.com platform and works on Windows 2000, XP, or Vista. There are plugins available to extend AbiWord's functionality.
Other Useful Apps
Sumatra PDF
Sumatra PDF is a lightweight, portable, free PDF viewer for Windows. It's designed to be portable, so there's no "portable version" per se. It works with a variety of keyboard shortcuts, and can be configured as your primary PDF viewer.
Eraser Portable
Eraser Portable is a portable version of the Eraser security app. Eraser allows you to completely delete files from your harddrive by overwriting them multiple times with predefined patterns. It's free and open source (under the GNU General Public License). This is a particularly useful app to have if you work with sensitive information on a regular basis, as it can be used to completely remove any traces of an original file.
OperaTor
OperaTor combines Opera and Tor to let you browse anonymously from any computer. No data is stored on the computer you've plugged your USB drive or other portable device into, making it particularly useful if you're using a public computer. It also includes Polipo, a caching web proxy, adding an extra layer of anonymity and security.
Portable Windows Live Messenger 2009
If you need to keep in touch with your colleagues or clients, then Portable Windows Live Messenger2009 is a great way to do it. It's a fully functional version of Windows Live Messenger 2009, just in a portable format you can use from any USB drive. It's useful for a lot more than just instant messaging though: you can use it to share documents, and communicate via voice and video.
Foxit Reader v3.0
The Portable Freeware Collection offers Foxit Reader V3.0. Use Foxit to open and read PDF documents on the go. Just be aware that according to the comments on the download page, it can be difficult to install and configure.
KeePass
KeePass is a password management program for Windows. It's free and open source and can help you keep track of all your passwords for FPT accounts, email, website passwords, and more. It saves everything in a single database file that you can open either with a key or key file.
TrueCrypt
TrueCrupt is a portable encryption program that will create a virtual encrypted disk and mount it as a real disk. You can encrypt an entire partition or USB flash drive. It uses parallization and pipelining to let data be accessed as fast as if the drive wasn't encrypted. Be aware that TrueCrypt does require administrator privileges in order to access files, which is a major drawback if you may need to use public computers.
Pidgin Portable 2.1.0
Pidgin Portable is the portable version of the Pidgin instant messaging client (formerly Gaim). It supports AOL, MSN, ICQ, Jabber, and Yahoo IM. You can add encryption plugins to it to enable secure messaging.
WinPT Portable
WinPT Portable lets you encrypt files on your flash drive and then unlock them without having any special software installed. It's still in development, so it's not entirely bug-free, but according to most reports it's a very polished build. The only thing it requires to run is GnuPGP, which is also available as a portable app.
Trillian Anywhere
Trillian Anywhere lets you use the Trillian IM client from a USB drive or disk. It lets you take your contact list and preferences with you wherever you go and use a full-featured but portable version of Trillian from any computer with an internet connection.
Further Resources
- 100 Portable Apps for Your USB Stick (for Mac and Win)
This is an excellent roundup of useful apps from makeuseof.com, though it's not specific to development and design apps. - PortableApps.com Suite and PortableApps.com Platform
Many of the apps in this post are built on the PortableApps.com Platform. PortableApps.com offers a huge variety of programs for use on a USB drive or other portable media. The suite includes a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, and other useful programs.M - FreeSMUG
FreeSMUG offers free open source software for Mac users. Some of their apps include Adium, Cyberduck, Vienna, and Newspeak. - Linux for Travelers
Linux for Travelers offers a ton of information on portable computing for Linux users.
About the author
Cameron Chapman is a professional Web and graphic designer with over 6 years of experience. She also writes for a number of blogs, including her own, Cameron Chapman On Writing. She's also the author of Internet Famous: A Practical Guide to Becoming an Online Celebrity.
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