Setting up applications and running them off of an external harddrive?

My MacBook is on it's last leg at the ripe age of 4 years old and I would like to move a significant amount of my applications off of the computer but still allow them to run on an external hard drive, when plugged in.
Is this possible? And if so, how can I make it happen?
The programs are mostly adobe products if that helps...

Buzz.
External drives can be connected and used in a number of ways.
Connection can be achieved either as an external device to your mac/pc or as a network drive, which can be achieved either through an extreme, a genuine network drive or even I believe with a direct connection to the ethernet port on the tv (with hacks).
Consensus seems to favour keeping the itunes database files in their default location.
If you choose to copy files to your itunes folder in your itunes prefs and let itunes organise your library for you, you will use the external HD for all your media and when it is unavailable so will all your media. You could also organise the library yourself and choose just to keep large movie files on your ext HD, this would mean you can still play non movie files in itunes on your laptop when it is used on it's own, but need to connect the drive for your movies.

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