Portable OpenOffice

Portable OpenOffice 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.

Not starting on your first run? Chances are your path is long or has special characters which causes OpenOffice.org to have difficulties creating its default settings. Download this patch and unzip it in your PortableOpenOffice directory to fix the problem.

Last Updated 25 April 2008
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Portable Apps Suite (Standard Edition)

Portable Apps Suite™ is a collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, web editor, office suite, word processor, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client and FTP client, all preconfigured to work portably and be easy to back up. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go.

Portable Apps Suite Contains:
ClamWin Portable (antivirus)
Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition (web browser)
Gaim Portable (instant messaging)
OpenOffice.org Portable (office suite)
Sudoku Portable (puzzle game)
Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (calendar/task manager)
and Mozilla Thunderbird - Portable Edition
and runs comfortably from a 512MB drive.
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Portable Nvu & KompoZer Portable

Nvu Portable / KompoZer Portable is the easy-to-use Nvu web editor packaged with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app. 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. KompoZer is an unofficial bug-fix release for Nvu that fixes many of the outstanding bugs in Nvu 1.0.
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Portable Firefox

Portable Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has all the same great features as regular Firefox including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, 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.
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Portable Thunderbird
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Portable Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has all the same great features as regular Thunderbird including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and adress book with you wherever you go.
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Portable FileZilla
Powerful FTP-client

Portable 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.

Portability Note: FileZilla itself is actually portable without modification. It will be bigger (11.6MB vs 3.3MB) and you'll lose the automatic settings backup and the ability to place the launcher outside the program directory. Just download the ZIP version from the FileZilla website instead of a standard installer.

Last Updated 25 April 2008
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Portable Pidgin formally known as Gaim

Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and other Unixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, QQ, Lotus Sametime, SILC, SIMPLE, and Zephyr.

Pidgin can log in to multiple accounts on multiple IM networks simultaneously.
This means that you can be chatting with friends on AIM, talking to a friend on Yahoo Messenger, and sitting in an IRC channel all at the same time.

Pidgin supports many features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, and typing notification.
It also goes beyond that and provides many unique features.
A few popular features are Buddy Pounces, which give the ability to notify you, send a message, play a sound, or run a program when a specific buddy goes away, signs online, or returns from idle; and plugins, consisting of text replacement, a buddy ticker, extended message notification, iconify on away, spell checking, tabbed conversations, and more
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Portable AbiWord

Portable AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft Word. It is suitable for a variety of word processing activities and has the ability to read and write a number of document types including Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, OpenOffice.org, RTF, HTML, Palm and more. It includes both grammar and spelling checkers as well as an array of other handy features including mail merge capabilities. It also has a plugin system allowing you to add features with available add-on plugins.
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ClamWin Portable
Free antivirus on a usb stick

ClamWin Portable is the popular ClamWin antivirus packaged as a portable app, so you can take your antivirus with you to scan files on the go

ClamWin is a Free Antivirus for Microsoft Windows. It provides a graphical user interface to the Clam AntiVirus engine. It features:
High detection rates for viruses and spyware
Regular virus database updates. ClamAV team regularly updates virus databases to include a new virus/variant immediately after it appears
Standalone Virus Scanner
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Portable Sunbird

Portable Sunbird is a standalone calendaring and task management application built on the same technology as the Firefox web browser. It's easy to use and makes keeping your calendar and tasks up-to-date a breeze. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your schedule and to do lists with you wherever you go.
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KeePass Password Safe
Secure password manager

Today you need to remember many passwords. You need a password for the Windows network logon, your e-mail account, your homepage's ftp password, online passwords, etc. etc. etc. The list is endless. Also, you should use different passwords for each account. Because if you use only one password everywhere and someone gets this password you have a problem... A serious problem. The thief would have access to your e-mail account, homepage, etc. Unimaginable.

KeePass is a free/open-source password safe or manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES and Twofish). For more information, see the features page.

Last Updated 15 April 2008
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Eraser Portable
Securely erase your data

Eraser Portable is a secure data removal tool that runs directly from your iPod, USB thumbdrive, portable hard drive or any other portable media. You can plug it right into any Windows computer and use it just like you would on your own. It is a repackaged version of the popular Eraser utility designed with portability in mind, so it has all the same great features of Eraser, but there's nothing to install.
Win 98/ME/2000/XP

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt is probably the best disk encryption program around (including shareware / commercial programs). The portability is the icing on the cake.

Main Features:
Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk.
Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive.
Encryption is automatic, real-time (on-the-fly) and transparent.
Provides two levels of plausible deniability, in case an adversary forces you to reveal the password:
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VLC Media Player

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a media player from the VideoLAN project. It supports many audio and video codecs and file formats 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. It employs the libavcodec codec library from the FFmpeg project to handle many of the formats it supports, and uses the libdvdcss DVD decryption library to handle playback of encrypted DVDs.
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GIMP Portable
Image editing on the go

GIMP Portable 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.

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. 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
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