The Portable Freeware Collection

[UPDATE] calibre V0.8.39

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:10:43 +0000

Calibre is an e-book library management application with a variety of useful functions including library management, e-book conversion, news download and conversion, viewer, and content server for online access to your collection.

The program syncs automatically with many different physical devices including Kindle, Nook, Sony PRS, BeBook, Android, iOS and many more (full list). It supports a variety of e-book formats, including: AZW, AZW1, CBR, CBZ, CHM, EPUB, FB2, HTML, IMP, LIT, LRF, LRX, MOBI, ODT, OEBZIP, OPF, PDB, PDF, PML, PMLZ, PRC, RAR, RB, RTF, SNB, TPZ, TXT and ZIP.

[UPDATE] BurnCDCC V2.01

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:51:32 +0000

BurnCDCC is a dedicated utility for burning an ISO file to a CD/DVD disc.

[NEW] MeinPlatz V4.00

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:02 +0000

MeinPlatz scans the hard disk for lost disk space. The results can be exported to XLS, HTM, CSV and TXT.

MeinPlatz also has a print function with integrated print preview and variable aspect ratio, and also a small screen magnifier.

Supported languages: German, English, Polish, Chinese (Traditional & Simplified), French, Russian. Korean, Dutch, Slovak, Czech, Danish and Croatian.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] ProcessKO V2.42

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:05:05 +0000

ProcessKO is a small useful tool designed to quickly kill any running or hanging process / program.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] WinScan2PDF V1.55

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:02:25 +0000

WinScan2PDF is a very small (~40k) and portable program that allows you to scan documents and save them on your computer as a PDF by using any installed scanner.

[UPDATE] Universal Viewer V5.6.2.0

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:07:18 +0000

Universal Viewer is a file viewer that supports many different formats like text, binary, rtf, images, videos, audio, etc. The program can open large text files, such as log files, very quickly and without eating memory.

[UPDATE] Maxthon Portable V3.3.4.2000

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:55:47 +0000

Maxthon is a speed-focused web browser with two rendering engines available for optimized viewing depending on content, as well as an included ad-blocker. The program can view IE-only pages with Internet Explorer's rendering or modern web pages in the same engine as Safari/Chrome (Webkit).

The program includes support for mouse gestures, skinning, built-in RSS reader sidebar, and more. It also has privacy protection features to erase browsing history, cookies, cache, etc. with a single click, or configure the browser to clear them automatically when it closes.

Maxthon Portable is a version from PortableApps.com.

[UPDATE] Google Chrome Portable 17.0.963.46

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:49:29 +0000

Google Chrome Portable is a minimalistic browser designed for simplicity and speed. Its appearance and capabilities can be extended with themes and extensions. The program is WebKit-based similar to Apple's Safari. Includes automatic support for jPortable to enable web-based Java apps.

For users interested in the cutting edge, the beta and development branches are also available.

[UPDATE] BluetoothView V1.60

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:44:30 +0000

BluetoothView is a small utility that runs in the background and monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices around you. For each detected Bluetooth device, it displays the following information: Device Name, Bluetooth Address, Major Device Type, Minor Device Type, First Detection Time, Last Detection Time etc. BluetoothView can also notify you when a new Bluetooth device is detected, by displaying a balloon in the taskbar or by playing a small beep sound.

[UPDATE] Universal USB Installer V1.8.8.1

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:36:16 +0000

Universal USB Installer creates bootable "Live" Linux installations on an external USB drive. A long list of distributions are available including a variety based on the major groups including Ubuntu, Redhat, and SuSE, as well as specialized distros for system management, rescue, security, and more.

[UPDATE] SpaceSniffer V1.1.4.0

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:49:09 +0000

SpaceSniffer is a graphical disk use analysis software with available filtering. It can break down display into individual folders and files. Uses a special "Treemap" to display disk use (a concept invented by Prof. Ben Shneiderman).

A page of tips and tricks for use is available.

[UPDATE] TrueCrypt V7.1a

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:10:39 +0000

TrueCrypt creates and opens secure volumes that work transparent to the user, making it possible to use and run files from inside a secure volume. The program can open encrypted files that appear as an external device, as well as encrypt the operating system. Supports a range of high-security 256-bit encryption algorithms, including AES, Serpent, and Twofish, as well as combinations (e.g. Serpent + Twofish) in the event that one of the algorithms is eventually cracked.

Supports key files, a real and false password for plausible deniability, a variety of command-line controls, and official clients are also available for Mac and Linux.

[UPDATE] NK2Edit V2.01

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:43:24 +0000

NK2Edit edits the "auto-complete" entries in Microsoft Outlook. Auto-complete is a useful feature to automatically suggest items based on the first few letters of the recipient, but over time can gather invalid or unwanted contacts. The name comes from the .N2K file extension Outlook saves this email list to.

A 64-bit version (only for using with Outlook 2010 64-bit) is available.

[UPDATE] EssentialPIM Free V4.54

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:54:43 +0000

EssentialPIM includes a calendar/scheduler, todo list, contact manager, basic e-mail client, and tree-like multi-level notes tool that supports rich text, formatting, and images.

While many advanced functions such as synchronization and encryption are exclusive in the Pro version, the program is capable of manually importing from variety of formats including Outlook, TreePad, Google calendar etc. Additionally, it can export to many formats including HTML, vCard, iCal, RTF, CSV, iPod, text, etc.

[UPDATE] NewFileTime V1.61

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:51:02 +0000

NewFileTime is a small but effective tool that provides you easy access to correct or manipulate any of the timestamps for any file and folder on your Windows system.

[UPDATE] CintaNotes V1.5.5

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:46:04 +0000

CintaNotes is a tag-based, text-only personal notes manager for collecting bits and pieces of information such as thoughts and ideas, article excerpts, quotes, research, etc. A global hot key (by default Ctrl-F12) clips pieces of text from other applications such as web browsers or any local program. The window title becomes title/subject of the note and the highlighted text selected becomes the body.

The program is useful to quickly take down and tag any piece of useful text that you come across and quickly organize by date, keywords, title, link and note size. A search tool searches the entire database with search keyword highlighting.

[UPDATE] ArsClip V3.2.1

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:03:24 +0000

ArsClip remembers the most recent clipboard entries and allows you to quickly paste any of the entries into a program by pressing a hotkey (by default ctrl+shift+z). You can configure it to monitor both text and non-text clipboard entries, and you can create permanent items that are always present. There are also multiple ways for entering items into a program, including a "form mode" for pasting multiple fields in one step.

[UPDATE] Imagine V1.0.8

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:31:52 +0000

Imagine is a lightweight, fast, and easy to use image viewer with basic graphics and animation edit features. Other features include viewing internals of compressed files (ZIP, RAR, 7Z files, etc), screen capture, batch conversion, thumbnail browser, and slideshow.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] DesktopOK V2.85

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 20:05:38 +0000

DesktopOK is a small, effective solution for users that have to change their screen resolution frequently. Additionally, the program will maintain the position of desktop icons.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] WinContig V1.05.02

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:08:21 +0000

WinContig is an easy-to-use file defragmentation program that does not require defragmenting the entire disk. This is useful for squeezing extra performance out of important or frequently used files or programs without wasting time and energy on the rest of the drive.

The program engine is based on the standard Microsoft defragmentation API. In addition, WinContig allows you to group files into profiles, and it accepts a number of optional command-line switches that you can use to control how the program operates.

[UPDATE] WebCookiesSniffer V1.10

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:05:21 +0000

WebCookiesSniffer captures all cookies sent to and from the Web server, displaying them in a simple table. The upper pane displays the cookie string and the Web site/host name that sent/received it. When selecting a cookie in the upper pane, the program parses the information in name-value format in the lower pane.

The program is browser-independent, using a packet sniffer to gather data.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] WebCamImageSave V1.10

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:03:46 +0000

WebCamImageSave captures a still image from your camera at an interval you choose and saves it into image file (.jpg, .png, .bmp) on your disk. Images can be formatted according to time/date (e.g.: img20110725_123256.jpg). Optionally, the program can add a label to the image with date/time that the image was captured. The format of this label can be customized including font, color, and time format.

An included command-line utility can capture a single camera image without displaying any user interface.

[UPDATE] SoftPerfect Network Scanner V5.4.0

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:01:49 +0000

SoftPerfect Network Scanner is a feature-rich, multi-threaded network scanner to find and identify network resources. Includes IP, NetBIOS and SNMP, can ping computers, scans for listening TCP ports, and shows what types of resources are shared (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.

[UPDATE] MozillaHistoryView V1.43

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:58:06 +0000

MozillaHistoryView reads the history data file (history.dat) of Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape Web browsers, and displays the list of all visited Web pages in the last days. For each visited Web page, the following information is displayed: URL, First visit date, Last visit date, Visit counter, Referrer, Title, and Host name. You can also export the history data to text/HTML/XML.

[UPDATE] Miranda IM V0.9.43

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:56:04 +0000

Miranda IM is an extensible, customizable instant messenger client supporting AIM, ICQ, IRC, Gadu Gadu, MSN, Yahoo and Jabber. The program can support more protocols via an extended plugin system to include Netsend, Skype, Facebook, etc. and an add-on system can add other features such as skins, an RSS feed reader, weather alert, world clock, secure messaging, etc.

Alternately, Miranda IM Portable is another portable package optimized for external flash memory.

[UPDATE] HWMonitor V1.19

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:51:49 +0000

HWMonitor is a hardware monitoring program that reads a variety of system health sensors including voltages, temperatures, fans speed.   The program handles most common sensor chips, like ITE® IT87 series, most Winbond® ICs, and others. In addition, it can read modern CPUs on-die core thermal sensors, as well has hard drives temperature via S.M.A.R.T, and video card GPU temperature.  

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] HashMyFiles V1.86

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:11 +0000

HashMyFiles is small utility that allows you to calculate the MD5 and SHA1 hashes of one or more files in your system. You can easily copy the MD5/SHA1 hashes list into the clipboard, or save them into text/html/xml file.

[UPDATE] BulkFileChanger V1.21

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:42:10 +0000

BulkFileChanger is a small utility that allows you to gather a list of files via drag-and-drop, explorer, or wild card searches. Users can then execute a command, change properties (time/date/hidden/read-only, etc), export file list, or copy/move files to another location.

[UPDATE] SeaMonkey, Portable Edition V2.7

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:39:31 +0000

SeaMonkey is a complete internet suite with web browser, email & newsgroup client with an included web feed reader, easy HTML editor, IRC chat, and web development tools. The browser supports fine-grained controls over images, cookies, and more on a per-site basis. Based on Netscape Communicator and then Mozilla Suite, this software bundle includes many technologies used in Mozilla Firefox and Thunderbird, and supports many of their add-ons.

SeaMonkey, Portable Edition is a version of the software from PortableApps.com and works automatically with web-based Java apps if their jPortable tool is present.

[UPDATE] DBF Viewer Plus V1.66

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:13:09 +0000

DBF Viewer Plus is a portable DBF database table viewer and editor plus some additional features for searching, importing and exporting to a number of different formats. DBF formats include dBase, Clipper and Foxpro.

[UPDATE] TheAeroClock V2.52

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:18:11 +0000

TheAeroClock is a simple but at the same time beautiful desktop clock with alpha transparency. The basic functions: Total transparency, size, setting, and the selection of the Clock-texture or the appearance are available.

[NEW] QTranslate V3.1.0

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:55:01 +0000

QTranslate is a front-end for various translation websites including Google, Microsoft, and Babelfish. Open the main window to enter or paste text (up to 100 characters), or simply select text and press a hotkey for a popup translation window. The program also has the ability to speak text and do a web search.

Although the hotkeys can be modified, by default:

Show the translation window: CTRL+Q (press CTRL twice for the main window)
Speak text: Ctrl+E
Perform a web search: Ctrl+W

[UPDATE] AkelPad V4.7.3

Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:15:20 +0000

Akelpad is a plain text editor designed to be small and fast. Unicode support, both single-document and tabbed interfaces, unlimited file size and multi-level undo are just a few of the many features this editor offers.

[UPDATE] eToolz V3.4.8

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:04:51 +0000

eToolz includes some of the most important networking tools like NS-Lookup, Ping, TraceRoute and Whois. It allows also to check E-mail addresses (MX-Server) and to search/convert domain names showing DNS entries (A, PTR, NS, SOA). eToolz supports also international domain names.

Note: the application starts in German, but you can immediately focus the "Sprache / Language" option in the window.

[UPDATE] Don't Sleep V2.64

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:34:35 +0000

Don't Sleep is a small portable program to prevent system shutdown, Standby, Hibernate, Turn Off and Restart.

[UPDATE] Scribus Portable V1.4.0

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:04:30 +0000

Scribus is a desktop-publishing tool similar to Adobe InDesign and Microsoft Publisher. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Includes support for a wide variety of file types via import filters, rendering of markup languages, and XML file format. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew.

Scribus is cross-platform and open source. Scribus Portable is a PortableApps.com version of the software.

Version 1.3 series options (unsupported, works with Win2K):

X-Scribus
Portable Scribus - (choose English or multilingual, extract to any folder of your choice and Launch PortableScribus.exe)

[UPDATE] RapidTyping V4.5

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 19:19:24 +0000

RapidTyping is a teaching tool for both adults and kids to use a keyboard more efficiently.

[UPDATE] Boom V1.0.8

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:41:22 +0000

Boom is a fast and easy-to-use audio player. All of its most important features including gapless playback, ReplayGain support, a convenient structured genre/artist/album/song view of the indexed files, etc. are easily accessible out-of-the-box. The program has a simple design with low resource usage and supports most major formats including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, FLAC, Musepack (MPC), WavPack, WAV, AIFF, MP4/M4A and WMA.

The program includes a simplified version of the foobar2000 Properties dialog that provides basic tagging capabilities.

Note: when running in portable mode, Boom will index the contents of the folder its installed in.

[UPDATE] Aegisub V2.1.9

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:35:05 +0000

Aegisub is an advanced subtitle editor that allows for many advanced effects in the subtitles, apart from basic timed text. It works natively with the Advanced SubStation Alpha format used by many players and editors including Avidemux, Media Player Classic, VLC and others.

[UPDATE] foobar2000 V1.1.11

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:28:11 +0000

Foobar2000 is an audio player with low memory footprint and native support for most popular audio formats. It includes replay gain, audio normalization, equalization, and more. Play list display and keyboard shortcuts are both very customizable.

For editing song information, the program can edit song tags (album and song name, number, year, etc.) based on the FreeDB Internet database and even rename the original songs based on these tags. A file format conversion tool is available, but must be enabled with external downloads and can even fix some MP3s with bad file headers.

Windows 2000 is no longer supported but users can download the last compatible version: 0.9.4.

[UPDATE] µTorrent V3.1.2 (build 26729)

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:24:53 +0000

µTorrent (or uTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that supports multiple simultaneous downloads, smart bandwidth usage, file level priorities, configurable bandwidth scheduling, global/per-torrent upload/download rate limiting, etc.

Alternately, µTorrent Portable is also available, which automatically adjusts paths.

[UPDATE] WebSiteSniffer V1.10

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 13:22:41 +0000

WebSiteSniffer is a packet sniffer tool that captures all the components of a given Web site and stores them in a folder of your choice. A variety of file types can be captured including HTML, Text, XML, CSS, Video/Audio, Images, Scripts, and Flash (.swf) files.

While capturing the Web site files, the main window of WebSiteSniffer displays general statistics about the downloaded files for every Web site / host name, including the total size of all files (compressed and uncompressed) and total number of files for every file type (HTML, Text, Images, and so on).

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] Task Coach Portable V1.3.7

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:21:09 +0000

Task Coach is a simple todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists. It grew out of a frustration that most task managers do not provide facilities for composite tasks. Often, tasks and other things todo consist of several activities. Task Coach is designed to deal with composite tasks. In addition, it offers effort tracking, categories, and notes. Open source and cross-platform.

Task Coach Portable includes a launcher to handle portablization. X-Task Coach is also available from the download page.

[UPDATE] NetworkTrafficView V1.20

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:54:13 +0000

NetworkTrafficView is a monitoring tool that captures information passing through your network adapter and displays general traffic statistics. The packets statistics is grouped by the Ethernet Type, IP Protocol, Source/Destination Addresses, and Source/Destination ports.

A variety of information is displayed on each line including Ethernet Type (IPv4, IPv6, ARP), IP Protocol (TCP, UDP, ICMP), Source Address, Destination Address, Source Port, Destination Port, Service Name (http, ftp, and so on), Packets Count, Total Packets Size, Total Data Size, Data Speed, Maximum Data Speed, Average Packet Size, First/Last Packet Time, Duration, and process ID/Name (For TCP connections).

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] Q-Dir V4.95

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:47:49 +0000

Q-Dir is a quad-pane file explorer that is capable of displaying 4 Explorer panes simultaneously. It supports favorites, file/color filtering, export to XLS/CSV/TXT/HTML, screen magnifier, quick preview etc.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] Stinger V10.2.0.503

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:40:38 +0000

Stinger is a stand-alone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but rather a tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system. Stinger utilizes next generation scan engine technology, including process scanning, digitally signed DAT files, and scan performance optimizations.

[UPDATE] cdrtfe V1.4.1

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:47:45 +0000

cdrtfe is a collection of CD and DVD tools for burning a variety of formats. In addition to regular data recordings, the program includes support for media container formats like XCD, (S)VCD, and DVD-video, audio formats (redbook), and CD-Plus mixed format (audio+data). Other features include the ability to extract audio from existing CDs and convert to wav, mp3, ogg, flac, etc. The program can also create CDs that "overburn" and add up to 13% more data than normal discs.

The program is a frontend for several burning tools including cdrtools (cdrecord, mkisofs, readcd, cdda2wav), Mode2CDMaker and VCDImager. Also available in PortableApps format.

[UPDATE] Skype Portable V5.8.0.154

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:34:48 +0000

Skype allows users to make voice and video calls over the Internet. Although calls to other Skype users are free, other types of connections (landlines, SMS text) are not. Additional features include instant messaging, file transfer and conferencing.

Skype Portable is a version from PortableApps.com

[UPDATE] QtWeb V3.7.5

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:26:46 +0000

QtWeb is a web browser focused on strong privacy and a clean environment. While running, no traces are left on the host machine while browsing and none are left behind after a browser "reset" in the privacy menu. All toolbars, including navigation bar, can be turned off or docked anywhere, and even moved outside the main browsing window. Includes built-in support for Torrent downloads and ad-blocking functionality can be easily enabled.

Based on Nokia's Qt framework (former Trolltech) and Apple's WebKit rendering engine (also used by Apple Safari and Google Chrome).

[UPDATE] StressMyPC V1.06

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:47:05 +0000

StressMyPC is a stress testing software, to do a pc testing e.g. computer stress test. Warning: Unstable and overclocked systems can be crashed!

[UPDATE] Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition V10.0

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:15:25 +0000

Mozilla Thunderbird is a skinnable, feature-rich email client with support for plugins and many protocols including SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS. It comes with advanced search tools, message filtering, Bayesian spam detector, built-in spell checker, mailbox compression, and many more. Program features can be extended with add-ons, including a specialized version of email encryption tool GPG.

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition is a special build optimized for flash media and licensed by Mozilla.

Alternately, X-Thunderbird is also available.

[UPDATE] Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition V10.0

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 09:09:06 +0000

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, powerful, and secure web browser that supports open standards and many of the latest web technologies. The program includes tabbed browsing, smart search, easy bookmark management, and built-in download manager. A powerful add-on system allows for thousands of specialized functions and customized look and feel.

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition is a special build optimized for use on external flash media and licensed by Mozilla. Legacy / beta releases are also available, and functional in Linux under WINE.

An alternative is X-Firefox.

[UPDATE] UltraDefrag V5.0.2

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:31:30 +0000

UltraDefrag manages file fragmentation on to improve file access time and overall system speed. The program is optimized for efficiency and speed versus other available tools. Includes quick and full defragmentation modes for frequent or occasional (usually monthly) optimization on NTFS, FAT and exFAT-formatted drives. See FAQ for usage suggestions.

A command-line version is also included.

[UPDATE] Advanced Renamer V3.21

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:11:37 +0000

Advanced Renamer can rename multiple files or folders using several different methods for calculating the new name, including multimedia tools for sound and picture files.

[UPDATE] Xleaner V4.01.0062

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:34:09 +0000

Xleaner is a comprehensive privacy tool and a clean-up utility that allows you to delete temp files and junk files with ease. Xleaner can clear internet browsing history, cookies, cache, search, autocomplete etc. It can also remove Window's temp folders, recent documents, run history, search history, open/save history and much more.

Xleaner is extendible with PlugIns, AddOns as well as Themes / Color schemes.

Languages: Russian, Portuguese, Italian, Czech, Spanish, and German

[NEW] Pretty Run V6.7.0.117

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:20:16 +0000

Pretty Run is a powerful keystroke-based program launcher and search tool. It searches the start menu, desktop or any other folder for the shortcuts or files that meet your query. More than that, Pretty Run allows searching Internet Explorer favorites, Firefox and Chrome bookmarks, Control Panel items, Printers, mp3 files (by tags), jpg files (by exif data), databases, clipboard and on the internet (more search engines can be added to those already included).

Program also includes screen capture tool, Magic Words, a note manager, etc.

Note: To help compensate for drive letter changes that happens with removable drives, use the %PrettyRunDrive% environment variable.

[UPDATE] Media Player Classic Home Cinema V1.6.0.4014

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:57:28 +0000

Media Player Classic Home Cinema (MPC-HC) is derived from Media Player Classic (MPC), a media player that mimics the interface of Windows Media Player 6.4. Includes a variety of bugfixes, additional languages and decoders, 64-bit version, support for EVR rendering, hardware acceleration for H.264 and VC-1 video, and more.

Alternately, X-MediaPlayerClassic_HomeCinema is also available.

[UPDATE] Core Temp V1.0 RC3

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:07:39 +0000

Core Temp lets you monitor CPU temperature on Intel Core/Core 2 and AMD Athlon64 series of CPUs. Using the device's own sensor (Digital Thermal Sensor technology), the program provides a more accurate temperature reading than the standard diode sensors. Temperature information will appear for each processor core. Core Temp also has a logging feature, which allows a user to easily record the temperature of his processor(s) over any period of time.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] Winyl V2.8.6

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:05:33 +0000

Winyl is a lightweight digital audio player and audio library application. With a skinnable interface, minimalist design and low resource usage, it supports the basic playback functions as well as personal ratings, album cover display and playlists. The program automatically organizes your files into categories based on the information contained in the audio tags, which makes your music easy to find and play.

[UPDATE] SMPlayer V0.7.0

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:59:29 +0000

SMPlayer plays most media files without any dependency on installed codecs. It is also capable of playing DVD discs and Internet media streams. Other features include configurable subtitles, audio and subtitles delay adjustment, video equalizer, playlist support, etc.

SMPlayer is a interface frontend for MPlayer. Alternately, SMPlayer Portable and X-SMPlayer are also available.

[UPDATE] SearchMyFiles V2.05

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:50:19 +0000

SearchMyFiles is a powerful alternative to the standard Windows search. It allows you to easily find files by wildcard, last modified/created/last accessed time, file attributes, content (text or binary search), and file size. The program is non-indexing, meaning it searches the drive directly, which is often slower but more accurate.

Can also be used to detect duplicate files via the "Search Mode" drop-down box.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] 12-Ants V1.55

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:47:32 +0000

12-Ants or more for your desktop. Itching is not excluded. Watching the little rascals and have fun.

[UPDATE] FreeFileSync V5.0

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:43:11 +0000

FreeFileSync is a folder comparison and synchronization tool. It supports filters, file sizes greater than 4GB, delete-before-copy for large sync operations, and creation of batch files for automated synchronization. After compare process (by date or content) operations can be customized on a file-by-file basis.

Functional in 64-bit.

Upgrade note: a tool to convert settings from previous versions is discussed in forums.

Languages: 23 including Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian.

[UPDATE] AppRemover V2.2.22.1

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:36:15 +0000

AppRemover supports a thorough uninstallation of hundreds of Antivirus and AntiSpyware Applications. Additionally, the program will do extra cleanup work for previous uninstallations and failed uninstalls. The complete support charts are listed and updated with each new release.

A full list of the supported Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware applications the program will remove.

[UPDATE] Keyndicate V1.2.3.1

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:37:42 +0000

Keyndicate visually displays the current state of the CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock key in the tray menu. When a bar is compressed means the key is not active and when expanded signifies the key is active. The order in which the bars are represented are from top to bottom: CapsLock, NumLock and ScrollLock.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

[UPDATE] Ubiquitous Player V3.95

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:00:23 +0000

Ubiquitous Player includes a wide variety of programs in a single window. Includes a music player, web browser, image viewer, text editor, file manager, games, calculator, and many more.

[UPDATE] ClipGuru V2.9

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:14:08 +0000

ClipGuru is for the Windows user who would like to have a full-featured clipboard rather than the standard Windows one. ClipGuru gives users the ability to recall and reuse current and past clipboard contents, and to optionally save those clips into your own clip Sets for future use.

[UPDATE] PeaZip V4.4

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 22:21:03 +0000

PeaZip is an easy to use file manager-style compression tool supporting its native PEA archive format that features splitting, flexible encryption and integrity check schemes. It also supports most mainstream archive formats, including 7ZIP, ACE (read), BZIP2, CAB, GZIP, MSI (extr.), RAR (extr.), TAR, UPX, ZIP etc.

A 64-bit version is available.

Alternatively, PeaZip Portable portablizes bookmarks and includes both 32 and 64-bit versions, automatically using the proper one on each PC.

[UPDATE] AutoIt V3.3.8.1

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:56:49 +0000

AutoIt is a BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows user interface. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks or perform user interface testing.

Recommend: AutoIt Portable allows you to create a portable environment of SciTE4AutoIt3 and AutoIt together, as well as cleaning AppData and opening the program editor with sample scripts (thanks guinness.)

Users new to the program are encouraged to read an introduction (thanks guinness.)

[UPDATE] TheSage V4.5.1784

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:49:45 +0000

TheSage is an English dictionary and thesaurus that contains over 145,000 references with multiple detailed definitions (over 200,000), and nearly 1,200,000 relationships between definitions. It features cross-referencing, wildcard and anagram search, multi-session history etc.

Functional on 64-bit systems.

The program has a public and private release system; donors gain access to newer releases.

[UPDATE] RedCrab V4.10

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:03:54 +0000

RedCrab is a scientific calculator with a full screen formula editor. Mathematical expressions can be entered in a window similar to a piece of paper. The calculator's editor supports the entry of complex algebraic equations like fractions, square roots, exponents, etc. for technical and scientific applications.

Several mathematical functions can be written on the same page. Results from one expression can be carried over to the next task. You can save and load the formulas to create a formula library and complex tasks can be explained visually by importing drawings in bitmap format.

[NEW] 4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls V1.22

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:50:01 +0000

4ur-Windows-8-Mouse-Balls generates 8 or more balls to follow the mouse pointer on your windows desktop.

[UPDATE] PokerTH Portable V0.9.2

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 13:48:15 +0000

PokerTH Portable is a "Texas Hold-Em"-style poker game with computer-generated opponents as well as network play capability against opponents all over the world.

[UPDATE] FotoSketcher V2.25

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 23:42:00 +0000

FotoSketcher helps you take existing photos and modify them for a vintage or vibrant look, as well as a long list of available pencil sketch, pen-and-ink, or hand-drawn painting looks. All modifications include with a variety of settings and tweaks to control the look from dramatic to slight.

Also includes basic photo editing tools such as text, crop, rotate, even automatic contrast and sharpening.

[UPDATE] GetWindowText V1.56

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:52:34 +0000

GetWindowText is a program for getting the text from static system messages via drag-and-drop. Works with most windows containing text including Edit, Static, Groupbox - Controls, etc.

[UPDATE] WinBin2Iso V1.64.8

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:58:36 +0000

WinBin2Iso converts BIN CD images to ISO images, including files over 2GB.

[UPDATE] Registry Commander V12.01.24

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:54:32 +0000

Registry Commander is designed to replace Windows RegEdit. It supports all 12 data types in the registry, defined in the "winnt.h" header file. The advanced search feature allows you to search part or all of the registry by keyword, size or data type. You can bookmark keys or values so that they can be accessed more quickly. You can also change the data type of a value without affecting its content.

[UPDATE] JavaRa V1.16

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:56:36 +0000

JavaRa removes old and redundant versions of the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) from your machine. Simply select "Check for Updates" or "Remove Older Version" to begin.

Note that the program is no longer maintained as of March 2011. Future JREs from Oracle may not be cleaned with this program. (Thanks to Emka)

[NEW] Desktop Slider V1.03

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:25:01 +0000

Desktop Slider makes the desktop or workspace "infinite". The computer screen is like a camera that show just a part of the desktop. You can move this camera by moving the mouse while holding keyboard or mouse buttons.

[UPDATE] IsMyLcdOK V1.64

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:57:40 +0000

IsMyLcdOK checks for dead/paralysed/stuck pixels on LCD monitors.

A 64-bit version is available.

[UPDATE] PlayTime V1.2.8

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:19:10 +0000

Play Time quickly calculates the total play time of a list of most any music or movie file. Features a drag & drop interface, and can export all/selected rows to a spreadsheet (CSV). Total time is automatically calculated when you add/remove files from the list.

The program can optionally add a shell extension.

[UPDATE] FocusWriter Portable V1.3.5.2

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:05:56 +0000

FocusWriter is a full-screen, distraction-free word processor designed to immerse you as much as possible in your work. The program auto-saves your progress, and then reloads the last files you had open to make it easy to jump back in during your next writing session, as well as a variety of other features that make it such that only one thing matters: your writing.

FocusWriter Portable is a PortableApps.com version of the program.

[UPDATE] Database Browser Portable V4.0.0.5

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:03:48 +0000

Database Browser allows you to connect to any database and browse or modify data, run sql scripts, export and print data. It works directly with Oracle, MS Sql Server, ODBC, MySql, PostgreSQL, Interbase, Firebird and Ole DB databases.

Database Browser Portable is packaged in PortableApps.com Format for use alone or with the PortableApps launcher.

[UPDATE] Remove Fake Antivirus V1.84

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:52:17 +0000

Remove Fake Antivirus is, as the name suggests, used to remove anti-virus programs from unknown anti-virus companies, which tend to be malware.

[UPDATE] ExifToolGUI V5.00

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:01:33 +0000

ExifToolGUI is a tool for viewing/editing metadata inside a long list of file types including document, audio, video, image, PDF, and more. For images, the program can both edit and create metadata information such as camera/device used, settings used on the device, and even location the picture was taken if the camera has GPS capability. The program also supports IPTC and XMP tags, has batch capability, and import/export all tags.

The program is a front-end for the cross-platform ExifTool. It extracts the content of ExifTool.exe to a temp folder under the user's folder, along with thumbs, if enabled.

[UPDATE] Blank And Secure V3.01

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:36:19 +0000

Blank And Secure is a basic tool for permanently deleting files from your hard drive by overwriting them. This makes it impossible for most data recovery tools to return deleted files to a readable format.

[UPDATE] DSpeech V1.56.1

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:29:08 +0000

DSpeech is a text-to-speech program with the option of saving the output to a variety of formats, great for creating audio books from text sources. It also supports dynamically changing the features of the voices eg. insert pauses, emphasize specific words, spell them out etc. using tags.

The program can import text from TXT, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, XML, and PDF and output to MP3, OGG, AAC, WMA.

DSpeech works out-of-the-box on WinXP and above because the Microsoft speech engine SAPI5 is included by default. For WinNT/2K, you will need to install the speech engine separately. You will find links to plugins, speech engines and voice sets on the program website.

[UPDATE] PAST V2.14

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 23:55:38 +0000

PAST (PAlaeontological STatistics) is a data analysis package aimed at paleontology. Inspired by PALSTAT, it includes common statistical, plotting and modeling functions. It features a spreadsheet-like data entry form, and supports both interactive user interface and scripting.

[UPDATE] XMedia Recode V3.0.7.6

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:34:17 +0000

XMedia Recode is an audio/video converter for popular mobiles devices/PDAs such as iPod, iPhone, Samsung, SonyEricsson, Zune, PSP, Blackberry, LG, etc. It converts between most audio/video formats such as 3GP, DVD, AVI, MP4, WMV, ASF, etc.

Note that the website is in German, but the application supports English. Additionally, this program may or may not be in compliance with one or more licenses.

[UPDATE] WhoisThisDomain V1.75

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:20:16 +0000

WhoisThisDomain is a domain registration lookup utility allows you to easily get information about a registered domain. It automatically connect to the right WHOIS server, according to the top-level domain name, and retrieve the WHOIS record of the domain.

It support both generic domains and country code domains.

[NEW] SpinZip V1.0.5

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:15:01 +0000

SpinZip compresses files in one of three unique ways:

User specified size (approximate)
Specified number of files per ZIP
Automatically-named ZIPs based on filename (file1.txt and file2.txt --> file1.zip and file2.zip)

Also supports passwords, file filter (*.txt, *.doc, etc.), 10 levels of ZIP compression from simple storage to high compression, and available recursive (directories and their sub-directories) archives.

Uses IZARC compression.

[UPDATE] DNSDataView V1.40

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:08:27 +0000

DNSDataView is an interface for the NSLookup tool that comes with Windows. It allows you to easily retrieve the DNS records (MX, NS, A, SOA) of specified domains. You can use the default DNS server of your Internet connection, or use any other DNS server that you specify.

[UPDATE] AlwaysMouseWheel V1.81

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 19:59:32 +0000

AlwaysMouseWheel allows you to scroll (via mouse wheel) any window under the mouse, even if that window is not in the foreground (e.g focussed).

[UPDATE] WinHTTrack V3.44-4

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:09:47 +0000

WinHTTrack is an offline browser utility. It allows you to download a website from the Internet to a local directory, building recursively all directories, getting HTML, images, and other files from the server to your computer. WinHTTrack can also update an existing mirrored site, and resume interrupted downloads.

A 64-bit version is available.

Alternately, X-WinHTTrack is a portable package optimized for external flash memory.

[UPDATE] OnlyStopWatch V3.03

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:58:57 +0000

OnlyStopWatch is a simple time monitor.

[UPDATE] DesktopSnowOK V1.81

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 20:54:31 +0000

DesktopSnowOK adds a little winter magic feeling (5 or more snow flakes) on your Desktop.

[NEW] Blumind V1.3.21.1

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:40:02 +0000

Blumind is a lightweight and powerful mind mapping tool. It features multiple document editing, chart layouts and multiple export formats.

[UPDATE] Osiva V1.30

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:28:44 +0000

Osiva is a fast and small "drag & drop" image viewer. It is able to scale, zoom, pan, rotate, sort images fast. It can create slideshows, animations, and dissolve effects.

[UPDATE] CCleaner V3.15.1643

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:58:33 +0000

CCleaner is a system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused, temporary, and log files from your system, as well as cleaning traces of your online activities such as Internet history and flash cookies. Contains a separate registry cleaner and can optionally use wipe features for both deleted files and drive free space.

See the official forum for information on generating a list of unofficial programs the program will detect and clean.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder).

[UPDATE] JPEGView V1.0.26

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:11:45 +0000

JPEGView is a minimalistic viewer/editor designed to view images from digital cameras full screen and with highest quality possible. Basic image editing functionality is provided, allowing correction for typical problems as color cast, high/low contrast, orientation, and under- or overexposure very quickly and interactively during review of the images. The program can view and save JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and TIFF images.

While JPEGView is not intended as a replacement for a full-blown image editor, the included tool set of commonly-used modifications means such editors should be needed less often.

Alternately, JPEGView Portable is also available from PortableApps.