25 useful portable applications

Here is a list of 25 portable applications that you can carry around in your pen drive.

1. 7-Zip : 7-Zip is a file archiver with high compression ratio. Supports RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS file types.
2. Firefox : Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps launcher bundled in Portable Firefox, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.
3. CDex : CDex is a CD-Ripper, extracting digital audio data from an Audio CD. The application supports many Audio encoders, like MPEG (MP2,MP3), VQF, AAC encoders
4. VLC : VLC (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network.
5. Winamp : Winamp Lite enables you to listen to music, watch videos, rip and burn CDs and much more.
6. FileZilla : FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of handy features. It supports resume on both downloads and uploads, timeout detection, firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 support, SSL, SFTP and more, all with an intuitive drag and drop interface.
7. Baby FTP : This Baby FTP server has only the most necessary features and is yet powerful enough to be a basis for a more complex server.

   Features:
   - Supports most RFC959 FTP commands
   - Supports PASV and non-PASV mode
   - Only allows anonymous connections
   - Multi threaded
   - Real time server log
   - Configure home directory (same for all connections)
   - Set permissions for download/upload/rename/delete/create directory

8. Mega Mario : Clone of Super Mario Brothers, which expands or improves upon just about every feature of the original.
9. Faststone : astStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.
10. GIMP : The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter etc. Portable GIMP is a portable package for the GIMP, so you can take your images with you and do your editing on the go.
11. Convert : Convert is an easy to use unit conversion program that will convert the most popular units of distance, temperature, volume, time, speed, mass, power, density, pressure, energy and many others, including the ability to create custom conversions!
12. Angry IP : Angry IP scanner is a very fast IP scanner. It can ping a range of IP addresses to check if they are alive, then optionally resolve hostnames, scan ports, etc. It is useful for network administrators to monitor and manage their networks. Note: AngryIP.exe may trigger warnings by anti-virus software. This can be safely ignored. AngryIP.exe can be safely trusted.
13. Bitcomet : BitComet is a BitTorrent/HTTP/FTP download management software, which is powerful, fast, very easy-to-use, and completely FREE. It contains many advanced features for BitTorrent download and extends its leading BitTorrent technology to HTTP/FTP to accelerate downloading up to 5 - 10 times faster, or more. It supports simultaneous downloads, download queue, selected downloads in torrent package, fast-resume, chatting, disk cache, speed limits, port mapping, proxy, ip-filter, etc. Warning: This app writes some items to the registry, but this does not effect its portability.
14. Opera USB : Opera is a fast and secure web browser that features pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, built-in email and RSS client etc. OperaUSB is a portable package for Opera that does not write to the registry nor leave any data on the guest machine where it is run.
15. Skype : Skype is the insanely popular P2P IP telephony client that has taken the world by storm. Starting from V1.4, it is now possible to run Skype in a portable manner through new command-line switches.
16. Trillian : Take Trillian, your preferences, and your contact list with you wherever you go. Use a fully functional Trillian anywhere, on any computer with an internet connection instead of online clients with limited functionality such as AIM Express and ICQ Lite.
17. Thunderbird : Portable Thunderbird is the Mozilla Thunderbird email client packaged as a portable app. You can also configure it with GPG and Enigmail to encrypt and sign your email.
18. Open Office : Portable OpenOffice.org is a full-featured office suite that’s compatible with Microsoft Office, Word Perfect, Lotus and other office applications. It’s easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you’d expect in an office suite, but at no cost.
19. AcroPAD : AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF production capability. Handy for quick generation of simple PDF documents.
20. Cmd Prompt : Command Prompt Portable is a simple utility that allows you to have a custom command line setup on any Windows computer you come across. It has built in support for the command line interpreters on both Windows 95/98/Me and Windows 2000/XP/Vista as well as the ability to customize using simple DOS commands by editing the .bat file within CommandPromptPortable\Data\batch after you’ve run it once. You can customize the prompt, colors, window title, columns and more. A basic batch file is included with some simple settings.
21. Resource Hacker : Resource HackerTM is a freeware utility to view, modify, rename, add, delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables and resource files (*.res). It incorporates an internal resource script compiler and decompiler and works on Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2000 and WinXP operating systems.
22. Dekart Light : Dekart Private Disk Light is free disk encryption software for Windows. This free disk encryption software creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. All data encryption is extremely fast, automatic, on-the-fly and with no performance penalty. Private Disk Light uses NIST certified AES 128-bit encryption to protect confidential information.
23. IE Privacy keeper : Whether you are using Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, IE Privacy Keeper automatically cleans up the browser history once you are done surfing the net. The program will correctly clean up all index.dat files without the need for a Windows restart. IE Privacy Keeper will also take care of your offline (system) activity. Opened or deleted documents, viewed pictures and movies, applications run… Everything is gone forever…
24. Defrag GUI : Power Defragmenter is based on Sysinternals defragmentation “engine”. Basically its just a very advanced GUI for the Sysinternals core application which takes defragmentation process to a whole new level. Very high defragmentation speed, efficiency and ease of use. Such high speed is only available with Sysinternals defragmentation “engine”.
25. HijackFree : a-squared HiJackFree is a detailed system analysis tool which helps advanced users to detect and remove all types of HiJackers, Spyware, Adware, Trojans and Worms.

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