The Portable Freeware Collection

[UPDATE] Double Driver V3.0

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:24:26 +0000

Double Driver lets you view all the drivers installed on your system and backup/restore/save/print all chosen drivers. It analyzes your system and lists the most important driver details such as version, date, provider, etc and offers you the chance to update to the latest version.

[NEW] ExplosurePlot V1.14

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:11:13 +0000

ExposurePlot (former FocalPlot) analyzes your usage of the focal length of your lenses (JPEG only), show charts for ISO, aperture and shutterspeed. It lets you determine which lens you 'really' need, or which lens did you actually use on the trip to the mountains.

[NEW] STP V1.00

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:26:12 +0000

STP (Scan to PDF) lets you convert paper documents into PDF files. Functions include creating JPEG files from scanned images, PDF creation from separate JPEG files, preview with basic image editing functions (rotate, crop), external preview and editing, variable compression/quality of PDF pages, etc.

[UPDATE] SoftPerfect Network Scanner V4.3.5

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:46:24 +0000

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner. It pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and shows what types of resources are shared on a network (including system and hidden). In addition, it allows you to mount shared resources as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. SoftPerfect Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report if it is found open, resolve host names and auto-detect your local IP range.

[UPDATE] Stickies V7.0a

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 21:44:52 +0000

Stickies is Post-it notes for your PC. The appearance of stickies can be customised; fonts, colours and buttons may be changed, and styles saved. They can be resized, or snapped to each others edges to keep them lined up. They can also be hidden for a certain period, until a specified date and time, or to wake every day, week or month, to act as reminders.

[UPDATE] FreeFileSync V3.0

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:00:52 +0000

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization tool. It supports comparison by date or content, filters, file sizes > 4GB, delete-before-copy for large sync operations, and creation of batch files for automated synchronization.

[NEW] PhotoFilmStrip V1.2

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:32:06 +0000

PhotoFilmStrip creates movies out of images in 3 steps. First select your photos, customize the motion path and render the video. There are several output possibilities for VCD, SVCD, DVD up to FULL-HD (1920x1080). The effect of the slideshow is known as "Ken Burns". Comments of the pictures are generated into a subtitle file. Furthermore an audio file can be specified to setup the background music for the slide show.

[NEW] QZoom V1.5e

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:25:02 +0000

QZoom is full screen zoom and operation tool like Mac OS X. You can zoom into the screen and out using customizable hotkeys or the mouse scroll wheel.

[UPDATE] Universal Viewer Free V5.0.0

Sat, 10 Oct 2009 20:41:53 +0000

Universal Viewer Free (formally ATViewer) is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. One nice feature is that it can open large text files very quickly without eating memory. One downside is that there is no editing of these files, but useful if you have to go through large log files.

[UPDATE] SlickRun V4.0.2.1

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:55:48 +0000

SlickRun is a floating command line utility that allows you to create command aliases (known as "MagicWords"). You can launch applications/URLs by typing its path/location, or by typing MagicWords. You can also jot a random note at any time (by typing "jot"). In addition, SlickRun supports auto-completion and relative paths for maximum portability.

[UPDATE] Artweaver V1.0

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 21:45:34 +0000

Artweaver is an image editor that tries to simulate natural brush tools eg. chalk, charcoal, pencils. It supports common image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD, in addition to its own format (AWD). Image editing functions includes selection, gradient, crop, fill, transparency, layers, effects (sharpen, blur, emboss, mosaic etc.).

[NEW] Stick V2.8

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 02:34:01 +0000

Stick provides access to utilities such as folder explorers, web browsers, calculators, calendar, notepads and RSS news Feed in collapsible tabs (called ScreenTabs)that attach to the sides of the screen. You can also assign hotkeys to quickly access individual tabs no matter which application you happen to be using.

[NEW] MP3 Quality Modifier V1.2

Thu, 08 Oct 2009 01:40:19 +0000

MP3 Quality Modifier lets you change the bitrate of your MP3 music collection so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced while retaining the ID3 tags. It supports advanced options like presets, downsampling, changing the used channels etc.

[NEW] RadioSure V2.0.872

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:23:06 +0000

RadioSure provides access to more than 12000 radio stations via the Internet. It supports most internet radio formats, including MP3, WMA, OGG, AAC+ etc. It supports quick search for radio stations, smooth switching between stations including cross-fade effect, recording what you are listening to and packaging it into separate song files, simultaneous recording of multiple stations etc.

[NEW] H2testw V1.4

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:48:43 +0000

H2testw allows you to test storage devices for various errors. It is particularly useful for detecting fake USB memory sticks/cards, where it attempts to detect the actual capacity versus the reported capacity of the memory stick.

Note: H2testw wipes out all the content on the target device during testing! Be sure to backup the content on the device before running H2testw.

[NEW] FileSieve V2.03

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:44:36 +0000

File Sieve is a small tool that can take the files from a directory and copy or move them into a new folder, while creating subfolders from A-Z and sorting the files into them based on their name (first letter). The program can come in handy if you want to organize files for archiving, or to put them on a CD.

[NEW] USB Flash Tools V2.00

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:35:57 +0000

USB Flash Tools is a toolkit that provides several functions for flash memory cards (eg. SD or CF cards) and USB flash drives. It helps to detect fake cards/drives by verifying its reported capacity. It is able to backup a card/drive to an image file, and restore from it later. You can also use it to securely erase the drive/card's contents from a choice of methods, including pseudorandom data, Royal Canadian Mounted Police DSX, US DoD 5220.22-M (E), US DoD 5220.22-M (ECE), Gutmann etc.

[UPDATE] CrystalDiskInfo V3.0.0

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:51:40 +0000

CrystalDiskInfo monitors HDD/SSD health status and temperature, and does all the usual monitoring/graphing of S.M.A.R.T. information. It also tells you how many times the hard disk has been turned on and how many hours. Interesting if you swear blind that you don't use you PC that much!

[NEW] Robert's Podcatcher V2.0.1

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:08:59 +0000

Robert's Podcatcher automatically downloads podcasts audio/video files to your computer. It downloads all new podcasts in a given RSS feed, not just the top one. It also lets you load your player with songs randomly selected from your MP3 collection, filling it to capacity.

[NEW] 3D Traceroute V2.4.39.2

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:21:12 +0000

3D Traceroute is a handy tool that is loaded with essential network utilities. Its most notable feature is plotting traceroute as a rotatable, zoomable 3-D graph. It also has a built-in network scanner, pinger, telnet client, connection viewer, atomic clock synchroniser, name server lookup and more.

[NEW] tinySpell V1.9

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:56:59 +0000

tinySpell is a small utility that allows you to easily and quickly check and correct the spelling in any Windows application. It watches your typing on the fly and alerts you whenever it detects a misspelled word. It can also check the spelling of text that you copy to the clipboard.

[UPDATE] Converber V2.0.0

Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:46:58 +0000

Converber is a unit converter that supports more than 300 various units of measure in 22 categories. Converber converts everything from length and force to flow and temperature.

[NEW] TeraCopy V2.0

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:40:29 +0000

TeraCopy lets you copy/move files at the maximum possible speed. It uses dynamically adjusted buffers to reduce seek times, as well as asynchronous copy to speed up file transfers between two physical hard drives. When an error is encountered during copying/moving, TeraCopy will automatically retry and skip the files that cannot be transferred instead of aborting the entire operation. It also shows failed file transfers and lets you recopy only problem files.

[NEW] ZeroRemote V1.2.5

Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:54:20 +0000

ZeroRemote is a tiny remote desktop application. It supports audio playback, file transfer, alpha blending and minimal resource usage. The single EXE contains both the client and the server, and any files transferred automatically goes into the recv subfolder. Optional command lines switches may be used to launch connections with specified settings automatically.

[UPDATE] OperaUSB V10.0

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 15:09:33 +0000

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.

Another alternative is Opera Portable. Thanks to TheReaper for suggesting this.

[UPDATE] VirtualDub Portable V1.9.5

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:33:49 +0000

VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is great for video capture and transcoding via third-party video codecs. It can also read MPEG-1 video files. VirtualDub Portable is a portable wrapper for VirtualDub.

[NEW] Click-N-Type V3.03

Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:34:12 +0000

Click-N-Type is a on-screen virtual keyboard for anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. It features word prediction/completion, macros, audio/visual feedback options including spoken keys etc. It also includes a keyboard designer and many user designed layouts. Click-N-Type is able to get text into uncooperative places like browser URL "Address:" fields, Email "To:" addresses, Email "Subject:" fields, dialog boxes like "Open" and "Save As...", and many other problematic applications.

[NEW] Duplicate Music Files Finder V1.6

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:39:13 +0000

Duplicate Music Files Finder helps you find duplicate music files duplicates and delete them. It offers various options and filters for searching embedded tag information, so it is able to detect duplicates even if the filenames or sizes are not the same. It also comes with a module that can be used to quickly rename corrupted music files.

[UPDATE] Notepad2 V4.0.22

Fri, 28 Aug 2009 04:24:37 +0000

Notepad2 is a small and fast text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. It supports modeless find and replace dialogs, multi-line find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification etc.

[NEW] Svchost Process Analyzer

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 13:37:58 +0000

Svchost Process Analyzer lists all svchost instances and checks the services they contain. Svchost.exe is a generic host process name for Windows services that run from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The authentic svchost.exe is located in C:\Windows\System32, but numerous viruses and trojans use the same file and process name to hide their activities. Svchost Process Analyzer makes it easy to uncover Svchost worms like the infamous Conficker worm.