Author: Cong_
Are you tired of reinstalling software everytime you reformat your computer? Portable software is software that you can carry on any usb thumb drive and run it directly on that drive to any computer without installation.
I’ve been using portable software for years because it makes moving things and backups much easier, all you do is drag and drop.
Nowadays most of my software is portable including Firefox Portable.
Below you will find some of the best free portable applications courtesy of PortableApps.com
Accessibility
Firefox Accessibility Extension – Make Firefox more accessible
On-Screen Keyboard Portable – Easily access an on-screen keyboard
Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable – A full-featured screen magnifier
Development
Notepad++ Portable – A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – The easy-to-use Nvu web editor
XAMPP – Apache, mySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, etc in one package
Education
BPBible Portable – bible study tool
Celestia Portable – portable space simulator
Stellarium Portable – portable planetarium
Games
DOSBox Portable – classic DOS games to go
Frets on Fire Portable – rock out anywhere with this Guitar Hero™-style game
Jooleem Portable – simple and addictive puzzle game with great music and visuals
LBreakout2 Portable – breakout-style arcade game similar to Arkanoid
Mines-Perfect Portable – a classic hunt-for-mines game with advanced features
PokerTH Portable – classic Texas Hold Em style poker at its best
Sudoku Portable – the wildly popular and addictive puzzle game
Graphics & Pictures
Cornice Portable – image viewer with slideshow
GIMP Portable – Photo and Image Editor
Internet
aMSN Portable – chat and video chat on MSN/Windows Live
DownThemAll! Extension (for Firefox) – download the files and images you want faster
FileZilla Portable – the full-featured FTP client
FireFTP Extension (for Firefox) – a lightweight extension
Miranda IM Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in a customizable interface
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition – the award-winning web browser that’s safe and secure
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition – the handy email client- Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – the easy-to-use webpage editor
Pidgin Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in an easy-to-use interface
PuTTY Portable – lightweight telnet and SSH client
Sage Extension (for Firefox) – A full-featured RSS extension
WinSCP Portable – SFTP, FTP and SCP client
WinWGet Portable – take and manage your downloads on the go
Music & Video
Audacity Portable – A simple audio editor and recorder
BonkEnc Portable – extract, convert, and encode audio
CoolPlayer+ Portable – Lightweight, fast, easy-to-use audio player
DVDStyler Portable – DVD menu authoring tool
MPlayer Portable – Full-featured movie player with support for most video formats
VirtualDub Portable – video processing and capture utility
VLC Media Player Portable – An easy to use media player that plays most audio and video formats
Office
AbiWord Portable – a lightweight word processor compatible with Microsoft Word files
GnuCash Portable – accounting, expenses and financial management- Lightning Extension (for Thunderbird) – A lightweight extension for your calendar and tasks
Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition – Calendar and task management with a familiar interface- Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (Address Book) – Email client’s built-in address book with import/export functions
OpenOffice.org Portable – word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility
PDFTK Builder Portable – split, collate, watermark and password protect PDF documents
PNotes Portable – sticky notes to go
SpeedCrunch Portable – an intuitive algebraic calculator
Sumatra PDF Portable – a lightweight PDF viewer
Task Coach Portable – to do list and task manager
Operating Systems
Mac-on-Stick – Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably
Utilities
7-Zip Portable – File archiver and compressor
ClamWin Portable – Antivirus on the go
Command Prompt Portable – Simple link to a customizable command prompt
ConvertAll Portable – convert units of measurement
Eraser Portable – securely delete files and data
InfraRecorder Portable – full-featured CD and DVD burner
JkDefrag Portable – Disk defragmentation and optimization
KeePass Password Safe Portable – Secure, easy-to-use password manager
Lightscreen Portable – easy to use screenshot tool
PeaZip Portable – Easy to use file archiver and compressor
PortableApps.com AppCompactor – shrink apps without affecting functionality
PortableApps.com Backup – integrated backup utility bundled with the platform- PortableApps.com Menu – integrated start menu bundled with the platform
Toucan – backup, sync and encrypt for advanced users
WinDirStat Portable – disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool
winMd5Sum Portable – check md5 sums to verify files on the go
WinMerge Portable – file comparison and merging
Xenon File Manager Portable – portable file browser
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Author: Cong_
Core Temp is a compact, no fuss, small footprint program to monitor CPU temperature.
Now Windows Vista and Windows 7 ready! (x86 and x64)
The uniqueness of it is that it shows the temperature of each individual core in each processor in your system! You can see in real time how the CPU temperature varies when you load your CPU. It’s also completely motherboard independent. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
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Do you know who Val’s Art Diary is?
Val’s Art Diary is the diary of a Web 2.0/ Social Media artist named Val who is best known for making paintings and videos that are fun to watch.
A pic I uploaded to put above this caption box
For many artists, an important goal is to share their work and build a connection with as many people to whom their art is relevant to. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
Sick of iTunes? Is it too complex and slow for your needs? Looking for a faster, lighter and free alternative iPod manager? CopyTrans Manager is an iTunes replacement for your iPhone or iPod. Add music & videos to iPod, edit song tags and artworks, create and organize iPhone playlists, preview tracks with the integrated music player. It’s also portable and needs no installation. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
Download playlist files direct to your hard drive
Shoutcast Playlist Downloader reads up to date information from the Shoutcast website and allows you to select from a list of all available genres. Download thousands of files in just a few minutes which are then neatly arranged into folders, sorted by genre, on to your hard drive. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
If you’re like me you depend on your laptop a lot. Unfortunately sometimes the manufacturers of our laptops tend to do crazy things that drive you crazy!
For me, I own several Dell laptops and one of them loves to throttle its cpu down (lowers it’s clock speed) whenever I use a 65watt power adapter. To me this is just ridiculous to have a computer running at half it’s speed just because you are using a lower wattage power adapter when you NEED it to run at full capacity.
Well there is a free Windows 32bit program that I use called Notebook Hardware Control that can help you take control of your laptop’s hardware such as throttling of the cpu. Besides that it can do MANY MANY other things as well!
Notebook Hardware Control helps you to:
- control the hardware and system power management
- customize the notebook (open source ACPI Control System)
- prolong the battery lifetime
- cool down the system and reduce power consumption
- monitor the hardware to avoid system failure
- make your notebook quiet
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Free Notebook Hardware Control Utility (103)
Author: Cong_
CCleaner is the number-one tool for cleaning your Windows PC. It protects your privacy online and makes your computer faster and more secure. Easy to use and a small, fast download. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
Wieldy is a free to-do list manager that is based on the principles of GTD (Getting Things Done).
It allows you to manage your to-dos in a simple but effective way. To-dos can be created as thoughts and actions, which can then be assigned to the Next Action, Today, or Someday categories. Tasks can also be scheduled and listed in a calender-like overview, as well as linked to a project or simply put on hold. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
Accidentally deleted an important file? Lost something important when your computer crashed? No problem! Recuva recovers files deleted from your Windows computer, Recycle Bin, digital camera card, or MP3 player. And it’s free!
Recently one of my Hitachi Deathstar drives crashed and a lot of the files I had on the drive were no longer viewable. Using Recuva I was able to recover most of the files. It took about an hour to do a “deep scan” and a few more minutes to go through and restore some of the files. Read the rest of this entry »
Author: Cong_
Speccy is a great free tool for Windows that I use that helps you figure out what’s in your computer without having to open it up. With Speccy you’ll be able to figure out the specifics of your CPU, Motherboard, Ram, Hard drive as well as the temperatures of them all and much much more!
Speccy is portable so you can stick in on a usb drive and take it to any computer Read the rest of this entry »
