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25 Cool Thumb Drive Apps


Here is a list of 25 invaluable portable apps that can be installed on an Ipod or Thumb Drive. These are really cool!

  1. TrueCrypt – encrypt your thumb drive to protect your information
  2. 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)
  3. Portable Firefox – Leaves no personal information behind on the machine - you can take along your browser/extensions/bookmarks anywhere
  4. Pidgin Portable – All-in-one instant messaging (supports AIM, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo, G-Chat, etc)
  5. WS FTP32 – ftp client
  6. FileZilla – yet another ftp client
  7. Notepad2 – a fast light-weight advanced text editor with syntax highlighting
  8. Notepad++ - this is one of my favorite text editors – now made portable
  9. 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.
  10. 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
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Written by Harry Waring on September 14th, 2008 with no comments.
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Run your web applications on Google’s infrastructure.

Google App Engine enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.

No assembly required.
Google App Engine provides a fully-integrated application environment.

It’s easy to scale.
Google App Engine makes it easy to build scalable applications that grow from one user to millions of users without infrastructure headaches.

It’s free to get started.
Every Google App Engine application can use up to 500MB of persistent storage and enough bandwidth and CPU for 5 million monthly page views.

Sounds like a very good excuse to dust off those python books!

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Written by admin on April 9th, 2008 with no comments.
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Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition

Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.6 has been released. It’s the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your bookmarks, extensions and saved passwords with you. It works from any removable media (USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive, CD, etc) on any Windows computer (Windows 98 through Vista) or within Wine on your favorite Linux/UNIX distro. And, it’s packaged in PortableApps.com Format so you can use it on its own or with the PortableApps.com Suite. (more…)

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Written by Jason on October 8th, 2007 with no comments.
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Adjust taskbar preview size for vista

Taskbar thumbnail preview in Windows Vista is a great new feature that allows you to quickly see a window without having to fully open it from the taskbar. Instead, you can just hover your mouse over the taskbar item and a small preview window will be displayed.

I have been asked many times if it is possible customize the size of the preview thumbnails. Many have expressed the desire to have larger previews so they can better see the window. Finally, I have found a way.

Using a free utility written by Andreas Verhoeven called Thumbnail Sizer, it is very easy to customize the preview size. (more…)

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Written by Jason on August 23rd, 2007 with no comments.
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