I think one of the greatest innovations in computer technology was the implementation of the Universal Serial Bus (USB) standard which interfaces devices on your computer. One such device commonly used with this interface is the USB flash drive. It absolutely fascinates me that you can read / write data to these drives AND there are no moving parts. This technology replaced the floppy drive because of the large storage capacities (in the gigabytes). These drives are available everywhere, in various size capacities, and are the common means to store and transport data between computers. As the flash drive technology developed, software authors commenced engineering software applications, known as portable apps, to run from these devices. This “What’s On My PC” page is devoted to the portable apps that I use on my flash drive. Everything I have listed is freely available on the internet.
(Please Revisit for Updates – Updated on 11/14/2009)
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LiberKey – Groups a lot of free software. True “swiss army knife”, it offers local and/or portable use.
PortableApps Suite – complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.
Portable Start Menu – A simple and free start menu application that can be installed on USB sticks or local PCs.
Accessories
AbiWord – The lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app.
CintaNotes – A free, lightweight, personal notes manager.
Converber = Make easy conversions between 1324 various units of measure in 38 categories.
Day Maxi Calc – A portable, easy to see, calculator for your flash drive.
ESBCalc – A Freeware Scientific Calculator for Windows.
Essential PIM - Personal Information Manager
Foxit Reader – A free PDF document viewer
In The Beginning Was The Word – Bible study software
Jarte – A free word processor based on the Microsoft WordPad word processing engine built into Windows.
KeePass Password Safe – The free, open source, light-weight and easy-to-use password manager.
OneLoupe - Simple and easy to use, the small onscreen magnifier.
PasteCopy.Net – Windows Clipboard Manager with multilingual support.
Steganos LockNote – Will change the way you work with confidential notes.
Stickies – A computerized version of post-it notes.
The Sage - English Dictionary and Thesaurus
YadaByte Dictionary – New and state of the art dictionary.
YadaByte Passwords – Secured but simple app to secure your passwords.
Graphic
ArtWeaver – A simple program for creative painting
FastStone Image Viewer – A fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor (portable version available).
PhotoFiltre - A complete image retouching program.
PicPick - a powerful capture tool, image editor, color picker, color palette, pixel ruler, protractor, crosshair, whiteboard and etc.
Internet
FeedRoller – a lightweight RSS and Twitter feed ticker.
Google Chrome – Portable edition of the Chrome browser. (Note: Scroll to bottom of author’s page for updated versions).
Mozilla Firefox - Portable edition of the Firefox browser.
OperaUSB - Portable edition of the Opera browser.
Pidgin – An easy to use and free chat client.
Transmute – The ultimate bookmark converter.
Multimedia
ClipSpeak – A portable, lightweight text-to-speech tool that speaks text copied to the clipboard.
RadioSure – A simple, light, easy to use, internet radio player
TTS Reader – A full-featured, text-to speech software package that allows reading text aloud as well as to wav or mp3 files.
Utilities
Capture.net - The Swiss army knife of PC Tools is an exquisite, powerful and multifunctional desktop utility.
CDBurnerXP – A portable version of the popular CDBurnerXP software (burn CDs/DVDs).
ControlPad – Turns the numeric keypad on your keyboard to a Windows command execution system.
Directory List & Print – Enable listing and printing the content of any directory (folder) in a simplest way.
ERUNT – Emergency Recovery Utility NT (Registry Backup and Restore)
FreeCommander – An easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager.
Glary Utilities - Glary Utilities is a powerful and top all-in-one utility to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC.
Gridy – Adds an invisible grid to Windows, so that any window you move or resize is snapped to it.
Revo Uninstaller – An innovative freeware uninstall utility.
RunScanner – A Windows system utility which scans your system for all running programs, autostart locations, drivers, services and hijack points.
System Information for Windows (SIW): an advanced System Information for Windows tool that gathers detailed information about your system properties and settings and displays it in an extremely comprehensible manner.
SpaceSniffer – A tool application that give you an idea of how folders and files are structured on your disks.
Startup Control Panel – A nifty control panel applet that allows you to easily configure which programs run when your computer starts.
TreeSize Free – Tells you where precious space has gone to.
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