Free portable applications
Now that I have subscribed to an open source newsletter, something caught my eye. I'm an addicted Suduku puzzle solver myself and thought you might be interested in the fact that you can now download this new game to your computer and then a laptop or iPod or a USB stick. It's new and free.
AbiWord Portable is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.
Sudoku Portable is the entertaining and addictive Sudoku puzzle game packaged as a portable app, so you can play on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.
Portable GIMP is the popular the GIMP for Windows image editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go.
VLC Media Player Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.
Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you.
FireFTP is a free, secure, cross-platform FTP client for Mozilla Firefox which provides easy and intuitive access to FTP servers.
A new release is available of FileZilla Portable, the popular FileZilla FTP client packaged as a portable app, allowing you to carry your FTP client with you on an iPod, USB flash drive, portable hard drive, CD or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer (or UNIX/Linux computer with Wine) and use it just like you would on your own. It has all the same great features of FileZilla, but there's nothing to install. And it all fits in under 3MB.
The Sage Extension works within Portable Firefox and gives you access to a lightweight RSS reader using much of the built-in functionality of Firefox. It supports RSS and Atom feeds, feed discovery, customizable feed layouts and more. And, since it uses Firefox for many of its functions, it's a very small download.
Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition is the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your email, address book and account settings with you. You can also get it with GPG and Enigmail preconfigured to encrypt and sign your email.
Here are some more places to find portable apps
Foxit PDF Reader does what the name suggests. It helps you open, read and print PDF files. It supports all of the standard features that a PDF reader must have. For example, browser integration, copy/paste of text from documents, etc. The good thing is that, unlike Adobe Reader, it takes a lot less time to open files.
Treepad Lite is your friendly personal information manager. It can help you store your e-mails, notes, hyperlinks, text, etc. in one or many different databases. It looks just like the Windows Explorer most people are familiar with, which makes storing, browsing and searching data within it so much easier. To find your information, you can just browse through it just like you would browse through directories in Windows Explorer. Or you can simply use the search function. Treepad and the data that you have stored in it can be conveniently run from a USB stick, making it extremely useful for people who work on different computers during the course of their day.
The Quick Mailer simply helps you shoot off a quick e-mail without having to load up an entire e-mail suite. It’s extremely small and doesn’t need any installation. It effortlessly integrates into your browser and it also lets you send e-mail from multiple accounts. To do this, all you have to do is edit the From: field.
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got a computer way back when. I was linked to the internet, before the
school I taught in had it. So I learned about computers first and then
as I was a teacher librarian I learned a computer system which we used
to computerize the stock. We had to teach students and teachers how to
use it. How to search. At home I was learning to use HTML and images on
the site I had back then. When the school was ready to create a site for
itself I was all for it and wanted to do it. However, the job was given
to the computer techie of course. After I left that school and at another
I had much more access to the internet and collected many sites suitable
for students and teachers to assist with their learning. Then, after retirement
I started learning web design and as I did, being a teacher, I developed
some tutorials, which you will find on this site. I also take photos.
