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Great Applications for your USB Drive!

Arhiver / Extractors

7-Zip Portable [1.1MB | Freeware | WinAll] 7-Zip Portable is the popular 7-Zip packaged as a portable app, so you can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

IZArc2Go [3.19 MB | Freeware | Win 2000/XP/2003] Powerful yet compact for opening and compressing files in a variety of the most popular formats. Features include repairing broken archived files, and password protection.

Utilities

Calcute [161,294 bytes | Feeware | Win All] Calcute is more evolved than regular calculators. It is in fact an expression evaluator. Unlike limited hand-held devices where numbers disappear as soon as you enter the next one, Calcute lets you enter a Advanced Freeware Calculator complete expression as if you were using a regular text editor. You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Type what you want to calculate, press Enter to get the answer. The calculator keypad can remain hidden or it can be shown if you prefer to click buttons with the mouse instead of typing.

You can stretch the display area to any size in order to retain and review past calculations, as if this were a paper tape calculator. But here you can also go back up the tape, edit past expressions and re-calculate them. You can even retain your work by saving everything to a file, to be restored later.

Currports [47 KB | Freeware | Win 2000/XP/2003/Vista] Monitor and control the ports used on your computer along with the applications using them. You can use this also to close them if needed.

WinAudit [783 KB | Freeware | Win All] Audit all the hardware and software on your computer.

AIDA32 [2.94 MB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] System information and benchmarking tool. Can alert you to potential problems.

Restoration [299 KB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Undelete files, or wipe files out forever.

KeePass Password Safe [1.17 MB | Freeware | Win All] Carry your passwords around with you in a secure and encrypted database. Additional security features, and plugins are available.

AdAware [4.63 MB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] AdAware can scan the infected computers and remove malware and spy/ ad programs.

Convert [152 KB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Convert is the ultimate conversion tool. You can convert distance, time, temperature, pressure, etc.

FoxIt PDF Reader [1.83 MB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Lacks some Adobe features, but still has the important ones including browser integration and the ability to copy and paste from text.

Portable Thunderbird [6 MB | Freeware | Win 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Linux] Mozilla�s Thunderbird email client.

Office

Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable [7.2 / 7.3MB | Freeware | WinAll] Nvu Portable / KompoZer Portable is the easy-to-use Nvu web editor packaged with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind. KompoZer is an unofficial bug-fix release for Nvu that fixes many of the outstanding bugs in Nvu 1.0.

Nvu is an easy-to-use web editor similar to Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver. It is based on the same Gecko engine that powers Firefox and Thunderbird and features an FTP site manager, color picker, tabbed interface, CSS editing, standard-compliant markup, fully customizable interface, a built-in spellchecker and more. Learn more about NVU...

OpenOffice.org Portable [69.5MB | Freeware | WinAll] OpenOffice.org Portable (formerly Portable OpenOffice.org) is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go.

Chat / Instant Messenger

Trillian Anywhere [8 MB | Freeware | Win 98/2000/ME/XP /Vista] A popular chat program. Trillian lets you connect to AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo!, and IRC accounts.

Miranda [2.25 MB| Freeware | Win All] Similar to Trillian, with hundreds of free plugins.

Web browser

Portable Firefox [6 MB | Freeware | Win 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista, Linux] The incredibly popular web browser made portable.

OperaUSB [8 MB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Another great alternative to Internet Explorer.

File Sharing

FTP Wanderer [210 KB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] FTP program with drag and drop uploads/downloads.

Quick �n Easy FTP Server Lite [355 KB | Freeware | Win 98/ME/2000/XP] Features IP blocking, remote administration, and server statistics, etc.

How to make uTorrent portable:

uTorrent

Emule binaries can be placed in a folder on your USB drive and ran from it as well.

Media Players

VLC Media Player Portable [9.8MB | Freeware | WinAll] VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Media Player Classic [2.12 MB | Freeware | Win 95/98/NT/2000/XP] On some computers, simply trying to watch a video can be an ordeal with video programs that haven�t been updated since they were installed. Circumvent this problem by bringing your own video player along. Media Player Classic plays a majority of media types and has a simple, easy to use interface.

Antivirus

ClamWin Portable [6MB | Freeware | WinAll] ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

avast! [398 KB | Freeware | Win All] Anti-virus that can sometimes fix the registry and startup settings.

Dr.Web CureIt [5.37 MB | Freeware | Win All] On Demand virus scanner (isn't constantly running).

Image Editing

GIMP Portable [11.6MB | Freeware | Win All] GIMP Portable is the popular the GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go. GIMP video tutorials

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