http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps Bring Your Apps to Work Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:55:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/12/11/tiddlywiki-a-portable-wiki/ www.foxitsoftware.com Foxit Reader is a small, fast, portable app for reading pdf files. It's faster than adobe, and happily runs off of a cd, so it's a useful app to have. Comes in handy if you are ever working with a machine that doesn't have adobe reader. Plus, it's a lot faster. Foxit ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/10/05/foxit-reader/ http://forum.ccleaner.com/index.php?showtopic=5707 CCleaner is a free application for deleting your internet history, private application data, and temporary files. I find that that's something useful to have at work. That way I can erase (as much as possible) my tracks from whatever machine I'm working on. CCLeaner is a great app, and much cheaper ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/10/05/portable-ccleaner-crap-cleaner/ 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 ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/25/pstart/ http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/ProcessExplorer.html Process Explorer, by Sysinternals is a very powerful version of task manager. It shows you the command line used to open your running processes, which files they have open, and which processes spawned them. Process Explorer allows you to kill process trees instead of killing one process at a time. It's ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/25/process-explorer/ http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/PsTools.html Ps Tools, by sysinternals is a collection of free command line tools for windows that do such things as remotely run programs, show/kill processes, and start services. They come in very handy for remote administration/help desk. All of them will run just fine from a CD, and by creating a gui ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/25/ps-tools/ 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 ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/25/winvi/ 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 ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/23/audacity-a-portable-sound-editor/ http://www.gena01.com/win32pad/ Win32pad is one of those notepad on steroids applications. It's pretty good, and a handy thing to have for editing things. Not really essential, but nice. Win32pad is one of those applications I keep on my work cd because it is very small and I might decide to start using it ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/23/win32pad/ 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 ... http://www.theriverstyx.net/portable_apps/2006/09/23/ghostzilla/