Portable apps for USB flash Drives

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Having setup firefox on my USB drive the other day. I love having all bookmarks and extentions anywhere I go. I thought I'd post some links to some nice portable apps for all you USB drive users. ;)

Note: links where posted on some other site I found but I think posting the link there would break the rules so I re-hashed it for you.

Portable Firefox:
Available at: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/

The free and safer browser alternative to internet explorer. A fast and easy to use browser with hundreds of plugins to customize Firefox to your liking. It also features tab browsing and pop blocking built in.

Portable Thunderbird:
Available at: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/

Mozillas email client that can handle several email accounts individually. Thunderbird also provides effective tools for detecting junk mail.

Portable Sunbird:
Available at: http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/

Sunbird is a calendar program. Intended for the user who uses Mozilla Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird and wants a calendar application based on Mozilla.

Xmplay 32:
Available at: http://www.un4seen.com/

XMPlay is an audio player, supporting the OGG / MP3 / MP2 / MP1 / WMA / WAV / CDA / MO3 / IT / XM / S3M / MTM / MOD / UMX audio formats, and PLS / M3U / ASX playlists. A load more formats are also supported via plugins.

XnView:
Available at: http://xnview.com/

XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It can import about 400 graphic file formats and Export about 50 graphic file formats. It can also Copy/Cut/Crop and resize graphics and add effects to them.

Foxit PDF Reader:
Available at: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/

Foxit PDF Reader is the only eligible alternative reader/viewer for PDF files (eBooks). It's smaller, faster, and cleaner. And it's free.

AEdit - Free Word 4.0 SX:
Available at: http://web.tiscali.it/axart/english.html

A Free Wordprocessor with strong encryption, as comfortable as possible. This is an essential version, optimized for speed.

i.Ftp:
Available at: http://www.memecode.com/iftp.php

i.Ftp is a little graphical FTP client, which does what you need in an FTP client without the size and fuss.

HJ-Zip:
Available at: http://freebyte.com/hjzip/

HJ-Zip is a simple and easy to use zip/unzip program with full Windows user-interface. You can zip and unzip files, create zip archives, and also make self.extracting archives.
 
Ooh very nice :)
You're making me tempted to get a small USB Pendrive for Uni next year :o
 
I'm finding this very useful I must admit because my pc went mental recently, so because of this thread I'm now living through my USB stick :eek:

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With the Mozilla stuff, if it's not in a folder called 'firefox', etc. in the root directory of the disk you'll need to change the paths in PortableFireFox.ini

PixaMSN works very well, as does the Mozilla stuff. I am using IMAP now though, just in case.

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How do you find software like this? My Googlism is obviously inferior to yours.
 
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Afew more apps that should work from pen drives, ie they don't need installation.

http://www.photofiltre.com/ photo/picture editor. Between xnview/irfan and ps in features and style but very small and fast.

http://www.rssol.com/ Atlantis Nova word processor

http://rvas.webzdarma.cz/ Cathy - cd or media cataloging prog.

http://www.tranglos.com/free/index.html Keynote, note prog/pim based on rtf format

http://www.pawnchess.com/4584.html chess game

I am not totally sure about all of these working off a pen-drive but I think they are all self-contained and don't use the registry so they should work, just a few more ideas.

And of course http://liquidninja.com/metapad/ Metapad - extended notepad but still very small and fast.
 
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something i would love (providing it was secure enough) is a program that you run and it asks for a password and then it loads up a window (part of the program, not an explorer window) with all your files etc, but also have the ability for plugins to be written for it, so you could maybe have a plugin that autochecks an email account as soon as you "log in" to the program and maybe even have simple reading/reply functions (on the site fatz mentioned, they have many lightweight simple email progs).

cant think of what else, but you get the idea, one program that does useful things that you often do when youre away from your main computer and at uni or something (when you can't install anything)...spose this seems like a silly idea, but id like to see it :)
 
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