http://www.tiddlywiki.com
TiddlyWiki is a single html file that works as a wiki. You can put it on a
thumbdrives, save it to your harddrive, save it to a drive on the network somewhere, or put it on a web server. TiddlyWiki makes a great guerrilla wiki; a wiki you can use when you don’t have support/permission for […]
http://www.ghostzilla.com
Ghostzilla is a neat idea. It’s the mozilla browser, hacked to look very inconspicuous. When you fire it up, it sizes itself to fit within your open applications, so that it looks like it’s a part of them. Once you move the mouse out of the ghostzilla window, it disappears (or so it’s supposed […]
http://www.memecode.com/iftp.php
iFTP is a nice little ftp program. It’s small and doesn’t need to be “installed” so it can just run from its own directory. The configuration files are in its directory too, so you can download it to a thumbdrive or your harddrive, configure it, and then burn that directory to a cd.
Personally, I like […]
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/6763/html/dwhtml.html
DwHTML is a tiny html editor that I’ve been using for a long time. It’s a little more useful than notepad, but that’s about it. It dates back to a time when web pages were simpler and people were proud to have written their web sites completely with notepad.
By todays standards, it’s a crappy little […]
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/
Portable Thunderbird is a great email client that fits on a thumbdrive. It lets you check all your email accounts from work without leaving configuration info or passwords on your computer. You can set it up to keep mail on the server, so it won’t interfere with your other email programs, or you can use […]
http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/
Firefox is a pretty great browser. It features tabbed browsing (very nice) and all the features you’d expect from a modern browser. The best thing about having a portable browser is that you can save bookmarks, history, passwords, and usernames without leaving any of it on your computer at work.
Firefox works best on a thumbdrive […]