With traveling and use of many different computers, many geeks
(and geek girls) often find a need to have a uniform set of tools
handy wherever we may be. I've put together a list of 25 invaluable
portable apps that can be installed on an Ipod or Thumb Drive.
These are really cool!
- TrueCrypt – encrypt
your thumb drive to protect your information
- ToDoList – A
tak management tool that allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your
tasks into more manageable pieces whilst still presenting a clean
and intuitive user experience. (Windows Only)
- Portable
Firefox – Leaves no personal information behind on the machine
- you can take along your browser/extensions/bookmarks
anywhere
- Pidgin
Portable – All-in-one instant messaging (supports AIM, ICQ, MSN
Messenger, Yahoo, G-Chat, etc)
- WS FTP32 – ftp
client
- FileZilla
– yet another ftp client
- Notepad2 – a fast
light-weight advanced text editor with syntax highlighting
- Notepad++
- this is one of my favorite text editors – now made portable
- Color Cop – this is
one of my favorite freeware apps – includes an eyedropper you can
drag over any window to grab the color value. It then offers a
palette of 42 complimentary colors to the one you've picked.
- Ifranview – a light
little graphics viewer/editor that packs a big punch. You can use
it to work with screen captures, create slideshows and more
- GIMP
– the popular open source image editor packaged as a portable app –
very robust
- 7-Zip
Portable – handles zip, gzip, tar, rar etc
- Allway Sync – syncs files
between your thumb drive and PC
- Unknown
Devices – helps you find out what the unknown devices in the
device manager are
- TestDisk –
data recovery software that can recover lost partitions or make
drives bootable again
- UTorrent – my preferred
bit torrent client – I love having this with me wherever I go
- Roeder's
.NET Reflector – recently purchased by Red Gate, this
still-free app can be used to explore .NET assemblies, understand
relationships between classes and methods, find where types are
instantiated and exposed or check that code has been correctly
obfuscated before release. There are also over 30 add-ins
available.
- Process
Explorer – formerly Filemon and Regmon, this is an invaluable
sleuthing tool
- TightVNC –
based on the popular VNC remote control software, this version can
live on a thumb drive
- WinMerge
– compares differences between files and merges changes. It has the
same features as the desktop version
- Text2Html – a text
to HTML converter – converts text files into HTML format
- Portable Apps Suite
– this is the mac-daddy of them all – it includes Firefox,
Thunderbird(email), Sunbird(calendar),ClamWin (antivirus),
Pidgin(see above), Sumatra PDF Readable, KeePass Password Safe,
OpenOffice, CoolPlayer (audio Player) and even a couple of
games
- Restoration
– Recover accidentally deleted files – even after they were deleted
from the recycle bin
- Infra
Recorder Portable – cd and dvd burning
- RockXP – allows you to
recover windows passwords or keys, change keys, display system
password, and more – sneaky!
Please feel free to leave links to other tools in the comments
section of this post.
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