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OperaTor - Opera + Tor. Surf anonymously
OperaTor is a portable software bundle which allows you to browse the web anonymously. It combines the power of the Opera Browser, Tor and Privoxy.
With OperaTor no data will be stored at the computer you plugged your portable memory into.
Download: OperaTor 3.1
Opera@USB mobile Opera - portable Opera for USB / flash drive
OperaUSB, the Opera approved way to run Opera on USB, U3 or Flash device. It has the same features as a normal desktop version, surf the web, write emails, use IRC while having your contacts, bookmarks and settings with you - anytime and everywhere.
Download: Opera@USB 9.51
EssentialPIM - the powerfully simple Personal Information Manager
Move on over. It’s easy!
• Automatically import your existing data from Outlook, Outlook Express, or pretty much any PIM software that just isn’t doing it for you.
A powerfully simple solution!
• All your data in one place, interconnected so you don’t have to mess around, and just the data you need without a lot of clutter. EssentialPIM is powerfully simple.
Print, Import, and Export features
• Get information whenever you need it. Print whatever you want and only what you want! Save your data to HTML, RTF, CSV or TXT. Real information management that doesn’t slow you down!
Main Features
• Every feature you need to organize your life: scheduling, contact info, To Do lists and versatile notes
• Easy import from MS Outlook or Outlook Express
• Simple printout of any or all modules and quick export of your data into the most useful formats
• Strong data protection using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm
• Multilingual interfaces
• Syncs with Windows Mobile/Pocket PC and Smartphone devices!
To run EssentialPIM Portable from your USB Memory drive, download either the ZIP file and simply unzip it onto your flash drive and run EssentialPIM.exe or a self-installing executable for U3 flash drives, which will guide you through the installation process of the program to your removable media.
System requirements
Windows 98/Me/NT/2003/XP/Vista
Download: EssentialPIM Portable 2.7
eToolz includes some of the most useful networking tools like: NS-Lookup, Whois, HTTP-Header, Google PageRank, MailCheck, Online-Tools, TraceRoute, Time, and ConTools. It supports also international domain names.
eToolz requires no installation and can be run from removable media such as USB stick.
Note: The application comes in German, but you can change the Language to English in “Sprache/Language”.
Download: eToolz 3.3
Portable version of Mp3Tag
Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata (ID3, Vorbis Comments and APE) of common audio formats. It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words from tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more. The program supports online freedb database lookups for selected files, allowing you to automatically gather proper tag information for select files or CDs.
Download: Mp3Tag Portable 1.0
Gerald Combs, the creator of Ethereal, has initiated the Wireshark network protocol analyzer project, a successor to Ethereal.
Wireshark is one of the world’s foremost network protocol analyzers, and is the standard in many parts of the industry. Wireshark is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements.
Wireshark has a rich feature set which includes the following:
• Standard three-pane packet browser
• Multi-platform: Runs on Windows, Linux, OS X, Solaris, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and many others
• Multi-interface: Along with a standard GUI, Wireshark includes TShark, a text-mode analyzer which is useful for remote capture, analysis, and scripting
• The most powerful display filters in the industry
• VoIP analysis
• Live capture and offline analysis are supported
• Read/write many different capture file formats: tcpdump (libpcap), NAI’s Sniffer (compressed and uncompressed), Sniffer Pro, NetXray, Sun snoop and atmsnoop, Shomiti/Finisar Surveyor, AIX’s iptrace, Microsoft’s Network Monitor, Novell’s LANalyzer, RADCOM’s WAN/LAN Analyzer, HP-UX nettl, i4btrace from the ISDN4BSD project, Cisco Secure IDS iplog, the pppd log (pppdump-format), the AG Group’s/WildPacket’s EtherPeek/TokenPeek/AiroPeek, Visual Networks’ Visual UpTime and many others
• Capture files compressed with gzip can be decompressed on the fly
• Hundreds of protocols are supported, with more being added all the time
• Coloring rules can be applied to the packet list, which eases analysis
Wireshark is free software
Download: Wireshark 1.0.1
Glary Utilities is a powerful and top all-in-one utility to fix, speed up, maintain and protect your PC. It optimizes the performance of your computer, solves problems, protect your privacy and helps you to customize your system to suit your needs.
Download: Glary Utilities Portable 1.0
Portable version of Windows Inspection Tool Set.
Windows Inspection Tool Set (WiTS) chops up Windows multiple ways providing you with cross-linked, filtered views into a Windows system. View operating system information, processes, services, users, network interfaces and connections, file shares, printers and more. Get notified of system resource status, new network connections, process starts and exits, service status and other system events.
Download: WiTS Portable 1.1
Portable version of Actual Booster
Actual Booster optimizes your computers performance and make your computer faster.
Use this small utility for speeding up your computer. It works by changing priority of the currently active application, thus it’s very useful for concentrating all system resources to process great and complex data.
Download: Actual Booster Portable 1.0
Tiny USB Office - a small productivity software package
Tiny USB Office replaces the former FloppyOffice package, is an improved version of the small, portable productivity software suite which offers a collection of unique standalone free software applications. If you find yourself working on different machines and like the idea of having portable software that you can access hassle-free from any computer, then this is the package for you.
Whether you need to create rich-text word processing documents, share files across multiple computers, transfer files, create MS Excel compatible spreadsheets, comma-delimited database files, email your contacts, talk to your friends or co-workers on MSN, create pdf files, or securely encrypt or delete files - this is the perfect software package for you! When it comes to portable productivity, Tiny USB Office offers you the biggest bang for your buck - all under 2.5 megabytes of space!
Given the fact that Tiny USB Office is so small in size, this is definitely a software bundle worth having on your flash drive, or keeping around for a rainy day. Sure, it is not a replacement for your standard office business applications, but it is the perfect basic portable office solution for anyone who is on the road a lot, or who finds themselves working on different or older, sluggish PCs.
Download: Tiny USB Office 1.2
TagScanner is a multifunction program to organize large music collections. It can edit tags of several progressive audio formats, rename files based on the tag information, generate tag information from filenames. Also you may get album info via internet music database freedb.org. Supports ID3v1, ID3v2, Vorbis comments and APEv2 tags. Worksheets technology. Powerful TAG editor with batch functions and special features. Playlist maker with ability to export playlists to HTML or Excel. Built-in player.Very useful interface.
Features
· Rename files based on the tag information
· Advanced multiple files TAG editor
· Supports MP3, OGG, Musepack, Monkey’s Audio, FLAC, AAC, OptimFROG, SPEEX, WavePack files
· Supports ID3 1.0 / 1.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 2.4 tags, APE v1 and v2 tags, Vorbis Comments
· Supports for ID3v2 Lyrics and Attached pictures
· TAGs generation from folder/filename
· TAGs versions conversions
· TAGs case conversions
· Import tag information from an online database (freedb)
· Manual text-search for information in freedb
· Worksheets technology
· Recursive subfolders support
· Powerful Playlists editor
· Write extended playlists like Winamp or Sonique
· Playlists export to HTML, Excel and CSV(e.g. for MySQL)
Download: TagScanner 5.0 build 524 Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista
ServiceTweaker is a an application to manage and control Windows services.
It shows a list of the current services and you can have full control over them. ServiceTweaker can start or stop a given service. The most important and handy feature is the ability to change the startup type of services, because it allows you to tweak the ones that you don’t need or don’t want at all to be run on your computer.
This frees resources and decreases loading times when Windows is starting up.
You can group the services by display name, startup type or status, giving you more flexibility to navigate the list.
It is a stand-alone application which means it can be run from anywhere. Also, there is an installer for U3 devices and MSI setup for standard Windows installation.
Download: ServiceTweaker 1.0 Beta
XeroBank Browser is a free anonymous web browser. You’re just a click away from anonymous surfing right now! The benefits of xB Browser is that it allows you to securely and anonymously surf the internet, bypass firewalls and website censorship. For enhanced privacy, xB Browser clears history of browing and deletes cookies when you close the browser.
The main advantages compared to other anonymous web browsers is that xB Browser requires no configuration, technical knowledge, or installation in order to achieve anonymity. xB Browser is open source so you can feel safe knowing what goes into xB Browser. Additionally, it is even portable on a USB stick so you can take it to work, school, or on vacation.
Download: xB Browser (Torpark) 2.0.0.14b
Launch is an application designed to run or execute any type of file. It can pass parameters to the file being executed.
It provides support for running new file types such as *.MSU, *.MSP, among others. Launch uses its own process to run files, which means that the file type is not important anymore as long as you have an associated program that can open the files you want to run.
It comes with U3 installer, MSI installer for people who want to put Launch in the context menu and the normal portable exe file.
Download: Launch 1.1
SystemExplorer - All you need to know about the system
Features:
· Detailed informations about Processes, Startups, Explorer, IE Addons, Uninstallers, Windows, Services, Drivers, Connections and Opened Files
· Action History for monitoring processes activities
· Making of Registry & Files snapshots for easy comparing of system changes. Result of comparation is displayed in tree view and text list. · Can be used for analysation of product installers/uninstallers (like Total Uninstall)
· Performance graphs for monitoring usage of system resources in time
· Easy check of suspicious files via VirusTotal
· Easy search details about file/process via online databases
· Easy access to System Utilities
Download: SystemExplorer 1.5 Beta 3
es-Builder is a customizable and friendly information manager for private personal use. You can build your own information structure to fit your needs. Or just build a common structure such as Contacts, Appointments, Tasks, Notes, Daily Journals and Expenses from the Templates. es-Builder is exactly what you’ve been looking for. It is FREE to use.
Download: es-Builder 1.9
The PDF-XChange Viewer is the free alternative to the Adobe PDF Viewer/Reader - fully featured, faster, portable and still Free!
View, Print, Export Text & Images and add content to PDF files, type on PDF’s in any font, fill and save forms and much more!
Includes Help files and Manual - adding 5.5+ MB to the download
Download: PDF-XChange Viewer (free) 2.0038
Internet Video Converter (IVC) allows you to convert between various popular video formats: MPEG, FLV, SWF, DV, Quicktime, WMV, Avi, DivX, Xvid, H264, mobile phone, 3GP, PSP, iPod etc…
Internet Video Converter is portable.
Compatibility: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/XP/Vista
Download: Internet Video Converter 1.53.0.0
Koma-Mail is an email client with lots of features:
- Save download via SSL and APOP
- Scripts-, active x- and html-Blocker
- Encrypting of the database and contacts
- Muli-User support, every user can define several eMail-accounts
Easy communication:
- Multilingual (German, English, Greek, Dutch)
- Support of IMAP/POP3/SMTP and WebDav (Hotmail)
- Html eMails, inline-eMails
- Spam-Filter and own filters
- RSS Feeds
For your comfort:
- No installation required, runs from an USB-stick
- Unlimited amount of folders to save your eMails in
- Individual templates and signatures for each mail-account
- No sound when only spam arrives
- EMail-Groups, contact-managment and import
- Zip attachments
- Filter possibilities
For Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
Download: Koma-Mail 3.7
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