http://www.pegtop.de/start/
PStart is a great application for creating a menu of all your portable application. It stores apllication locations as relative locations, so it won’t matter what drive your thumbdrive or cd rom is.
PStart gives you a system tray icon with a right-click menu of all your apps, as well as a window that shows icons […]
http://www.winvi.de/en/
WinVi is a windows version of the vi editor found on *nix machines. Vi is a very powerful editor with a steep learning curve. If you know how to use it, it’s very cool. And if you’re a good typist, you’ll appreciate that you can do everything without taking your hands off the keyboard.
WinVi is […]
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.muukka.net/multidesktop/
This one is pretty cool, and I used to use it a lot, but haven’t run it in quite a while.
If you’ve ever run linux, you probably have seen a desktop manager with multiple virtual desktops. You can switch between these desktops and have different programs running on them. This way, your screen does not […]
Cygwin is a unix/linux like environment for windows. You can go to the cygwin site and use their installer to get a custom environment, or you can just do what I did and get user.exe from this site about unix win32 utilities.Install the program and then edit the batch file or cmd file so it […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
www.7-zip.org
7-zip is in my humble opinion, the best free compression utility for windows. It won’t require registration like winzip, and its own file compression format is more compressed than zip files.
7-zip will run from it’s own directory, so it needs no “installation”. Just download it and burn the directory to a cd. There is a […]