Save Your Computer From Bloated Software With Tiny Apps

There are two types of software. Huge, gangly bloated ones that claim to do everything under the sun – and also suck up your disk space and resources and those that are small, does the job sufficiently well for the few times you need it and only costs you very little in resources and disk space.

Sadly, much of the software we use regularly is bloated, contains many more features than you’ll ever use. Sometimes that’s to be expected. If I were a graphic designer, I’d want the top of the line tool with all the bells and whistles even if it cost me a lot of computer resources. That’s because I will use the software a lot and use many of the tools in it. I need to be well equipped to do my job.

But sometimes all you want is something simple to do a task you won’t do regularly. For those, all you want is something that won’t lock up your computer and slow it down to a crawl. In those cases, you might want to check out TinyApps.org. The site lists software that are really small and stand alone apps. Many you can even run from your USB drive. Love that.

The site lists apps that are mostly Windows based but in the blog you’ll also find some for Mac and Linux, including Mobile platforms.