Archive for the 'multimedia' Category

Audacity - a portable sound editor

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
Audacity is a wav editor and the only one I’ve used that is portable. I haven’t really used it, so I can’t say how useful it is or anything, but It’s on the CD I take with me to work.
I might use it at some point to record the calls I take. I got a […]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

IrfanView

www.irfanview.com
IrfanView is a portable graphics application. It’s not as powerful as the Gimp, but it’s smaller and faster. It will let you view all sorts of image formats, and do basic things like cropping.
IrfanView may need to be installed on a machine, but then you can just copy the installation directory to a cd and […]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006

Portable Gimp

http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/stable.html
Gimp, the Gnu Image Manipulation Program, is an image manipulation program common to linux/unix. Gimp is very powerful and similar to photoshop, but it’s free software.
Gimp requires gtk+ for windows and the two packages can be combined to make one portable distribution. Here are the steps as discovered by Kerm Martian: Got a USB […]

Saturday, September 23rd, 2006