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Apr. 17th, 2007 by Aibek
This stuff can be installed on any portable drive, i.e. USB
thumbdrive, PDA or an iPod. You can use them at work, school,
or any other place where you can plugin your device. Check them
out, you can either scroll-down for relevant category, i.e office
software, email tools, messengers, games, etc. or get a ‘all-in-one’
package (all essential
tools) . While there are more apps for windows users,
I tried to include a mac version for each essential tool. All
free. Enjoy!
What is a portable program ? : A portable program is a piece
of software that you can carry around with you on a portable
device and use on any other computer. It can be your email program,
your browser, system recovery tools or even an operating system.
The coolest part about it, is that all of your data and settings
are always stored on a thumbdrive so when you unplug the device,
none of your personal data is left behind.
- Portable Office Software
- Portable Email/Calendar/ToDo Programs
- Portable Text and Voice Messengers
- Portable Media Tools (Audio / Video)
- Portable Graphics Viewers and Image Editors
- Portable Browsers and Web Tools (FTP, Feedreaders,
Torrent clients…)
- Portable Security Software
- Portable Games
- Other Portable Utilities
- Portable Developer Tools (Techies Only)
- All-In-One Packages
- Portable Operating Systems (’HowTo’ Articles)
- USB ThumDrive Tips
Portable Office
Software
- Abiword [Win
(6.3 mb) / Mac
(9.5 mb)] - word processor (compatible with Microsoft word)
- OpenOffice [Win
(65 mb) / Mac
(127 mb)] - free alternative to Microsoft Office (fully compatible
with Microsoft Office docs)
- PDF Viewers: Sumatra
[Win (1.1 mb) ], Foxit
PDF Reader [Win, (1.8 mb) ]
- Notepad
++ - feature-rich Notepad replacement.
Portable Email/Calendar/ToDo
Programs
- Mozilla ThunderBird - [Win
(6 mb), Mac
(20.5 mb), Cross-Platform
(Win, Mac)] - very good
email client (built-in address book, import/export, tons
of addons)
- Calendars: Mozilla
Sunbird [Win, 5.6mb], Sunbird
[Mac, 9.7mb], Lightning
[Win, 1.3mb) - ThunderBird addon
- Mail
[Mac] - requires locally installed Mail.app
- iCal
[Mac] - requires locally installed iCal.app
- Address
Book [Mac] - requires locally installed Address Book
- Quick
Mailer [Win, 20kb] - tiny program for sending quick e-mail
messages
- gDisk
[Mac, 1020kb] - handy program that turns your gmail account
into a portable hard drive. (More stuff
for gmail)
Portable Text
and Voice Messengers
- All-in-One (Yahoo, MSN, ICQ, etc.): Gaim
[Win, 6.9 mb], Miranda
IM [Win, 1.2 mb], Adium
[Mac, 15.5mb], Trillian
[Win]
- iChat
[Mac] - requires locally installed iChat
- Newspeak
[Mac, 1mb] - Newspeak Cocoa IRC client
- Skype
- exlpains how to make skype portable
Portable Media
Tools (Audio / Video)
- Audacity [Win
(2.4 mb), Mac
(5mb)] - simple audio editor and recorder
- VLC [Win
(9.3 mb), Mac
(24 mb)] - powerful media player that plays almost all popular
audio and video formats
K-Lite Mega Codec Pack with Media Player (resource
unaccessible) - another powerful media player for playing all
conceivable formats- iShout
[Mac, 7mb] - record and listen to your favorite internet radios.
- CocoaJT
[Mac, 8.7mb] - stream live TV programs from major broadcast
channels.
Portable Graphics
Viewers and Image Editors
- GIMP [Win
(8.6 mb), Mac
(87.5 mb)] - free alternative to Photoshop
- IrfanView
[Win, 1013kb] - fast graphic viewer with basic image editing
features
- XNView
[Win, Mac, Linux] - image viewer and converter (supports more
then 400 image formats)
- Inkscape
[Mac, 24.6mb] - scalable vector graphics editor
Portable
Browsers and Internet Tools (FTP, Feedreaders, Torrent Clients…)
- Firefox [Win
(5.8 mb), Mac
(21.9mb), Cross-platform
(Win, Mac) ]
- Other browsers: Camino
[Mac, 16.2mb], Opera
[Win], Safari
[Mac] - requires installed safari
- Feedreaders (RSS, Atom …): RSSOwl
[Mac, 5mb], Feed
[Mac, 564kb], GreatNews
[Win], Sage
[Win, 0.2 mb]
- FTP Clients: Filezilla
[Win, 2.3 mb], FireFTP
[Win, 0.1mb], CyberDuck
[Mac, 9.9mb]
- TrayURL
[Win] - bookmark manager
- uTorrent
[Win] - popular torrent downloader
Portable
Security Software
- Antivirus: ClamWin
[Win, 5.9mb], Dr.Web
CureIt [Win, 5.5 mb]
- Keepass
Password [Win, 1mb] - securely store and manage your passwords
- Omziff
[Win, 0.5mb] - lets you encrypt/decrypt a file, using secure
encryption algorithms. Also includes a password generator, file
shredder, file splitter and some more tools.
- LockNote
[Win] - simple text file that lets you store sensitive info
with 256bit password encryption.
- RoboFor2Go
[Win] - secure password manager and form filler
- Smart
Sniff [Win, 57kb] - lets you inspect network
traffic
that passes via your network adapter.
Portable Games
Other Portable
Utilities
- 7Zip
[Win, 1.1 mb] - file archiver and compressor, supports 7z, ZIP,
GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR and more
- Registry
Tweaker [Win, 1.52mb] - registry tweaking tool
- Restoration
[Win, 229kb] - handy program for recovering deleted (or formatted)
files
- YamiPod
[Win] - powerful iPod manager (copy mp3/AAC files to and from
your iPod, import/export playlists, search for songs, remove
duplicates,..). More iPod
tools
- Drive
Manager [Win, 1191 kb] - quick summary for each local and
removable drive.
- PStart
- lets you organize and create menu-like list for quicker access
to your portable programs.
- SyncPAppX
- script that syncs preferences between portable and local applications.
- RQ
Money - handy utlity to manage your credits and debts
- SIW
- a system analysis
tool
that tells you almost everything you need to know about a computer,
i.e. hardware, configuration settings, etc.
- WinAudit
- one more analysis tool
- Convert
[Win, 155 kb] - fast metric unit conversion tool (distance,
temperature, volume, time, speed, mass…)
- UK
Calender [Win, 321kb] - straightforward calendar with ToDo
and reminders
- CPU-Z
[Win] - provides detailed info about your processor and other
components
- Country
Codes [Win, 1358 kb] - a small database of country codes
and additional information for all countries.
- TreePad
Lite [Win, 866kb] - personal database program, lets you
store all your notes, emails, bookmarks, etc. into one well-structured
file
- StartupList
[Win, 158 kb] - displays all items that are in any way related
to your computer startup and are executed without any user interactions
- eTextReader
[Win, 279kb] - read plain text files provided by Project Gutenberg
in a book-like manner.
- Index
Your Files [Win, 640kb] - provides an easy way to create
index databases (of specified folders and drives) for quick
file/term search
- RockXP
[win, 768kb] - handy utility for retrieving Win XP’s product
key
- WhoisThisDomain
[Win, 42kb] - view owner and registration info for any domain
name
- Converter
- portable unit convertsion utility
Portable
Developer Tools (Techies Only)
- Nvu [Win
(7.3 mb), Mac
(12 mb)] - easy-to-use webpage editor. Simpler alternative to
Dreamweaver and Microsft Frontpage
- Server2Go
- apache webserver (no configurations needed)
- InstantRails[Win,
60mb] - contains Ruby, Rails, Apache, and MySQL, all preconfigured
and ready to run.
- Putty
[Win, 0.9 mb] - lightweight telnet and SSH client
- Follow-Me
IP - displays your external IP address
- XAMPP
[Win, 25/17 mb] - integrated server package of Apache, mySQL,
PHP and Perl. Just Unzip and Run
- HTTP
File Server [Win] - simple and easy-to-use file server for
personal file sharing.
- CurrPorts
[Win, 46kb]- lets you view a list of ports that are currently
in use, along with applications that use them
- FTP Servers: Quick’n
Easy FTP Server [Win, 355kb], PureFTPdManager
[Mac, 10.9mb]
All-In-One
Packages
- PortableApps
Suite [Win, 89.5mb] - includes 7 programs for essential
needs (office, email, IM client, etc.) + cool Startup manager
and backup utility
- FSuite
[Mac, 668.3mb] - over 30 useful tools in one file (Office, Graphic,
Audio, Video, Internet,
Developer Tools and Games)
Portable Operating
Systems (’HowTo’ Articles)
USB ThumDrive
Tips
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