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Windows: It's always exciting when a new release of your favorite browser comes out, but if you're a Firefox Portable user, you've always got to twiddle your thumbs a touch longer. Well twiddle no longer; Firefox 3.6 Portable is available for download.

If you're trying to install Windows 7 on a netbook (or are having issues with your PC's optical drive), the free USB Download Tool from Microsoft allows you to take a .ISO image and turn it into a bootable flash drive.

Last week we pointed you toward a virtual machine build of Chrome OS for anyone eager to play around with (the still incomplete) Chrome OS, but if you'd rather try running it from a thumb drive, weblog MakeUseOf has you covered.

We love carrying handy little thumb drives everywhere we go, but at times they can be delicate little fellows. Blogger Dmitry Brant—having lost too many thumb drives to his washing machine—set out to make his thumb drive impervious to harm. His solution: epoxy.

Mac OS X only: Ever try ejecting a thumb drive or other volume on your Mac but discover "disk is in use and could not be ejected"? WhatsOpen hunts down the culprits so you can get on with your life.

Windows only: Free application uSbuntu Live Creator installs a Live CD from an ISO image onto your USB flash drive—much more useful, portable, and easy to deal with than carrying around a CD.

CrunchBang Linux, a lightweight, Ubuntu-based, thumb-drive-friendly operating system we previously toured in screenshots, is now available in 64-bit editions for version 9.04.01, which also adds support for the ext4 hard drive format and more wireless networking support.

Windows: If you're eager to try out VLC 1.0's new features, or find yourself at a lack for decent media players at others' computers, PortableApps has bundled VLC's latest re

Windows only: Firefox lovers have no doubt already updated to the recently released Firefox 3.5 for its amazing new features, but if you're more the portable type,