Handy programs for your USB stick

[geeksRus]

In case you missed it the first time around...the link isn't always on the front page of Snapfiles. Mite be a few handy things you can use.
USB Stick Programs

[Stalemate]

You can slap those into the Portable Apps and get your own little portable desktop and suite of apps available from a menu sitting in the System Tray.

Here's my current list of apps sitting on my USB pen (a litteral pen, actually):

The following is all installed on it, minus the two 3D FPS games.

Total size: 425Mb, including a few items in the documents folder.


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LIST OF APPLICATIONS IN PORTABLE APPS USB
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Launcher used is PortableApps Suite (http://portableapps.com/suite). It is available in Standard and Lite formats.

[Listing by category]

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ACCESSIBILITY

OnScreen Keyboard - Easily access an on-screen keyboard.
Virtual Magnifying Glass - Full-featured screen magnifying glass that allows you to zoom in on an area of the screen.

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DEVELOPMENT

Notepad++ Portable - A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable - The easy-to-use Nvu web editor. Nvu is an easy-to-use web editor similar to Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweaver. KompoZer is an unofficial bugfix release that fixes many of the outstanding bugs in Nvu 1.0.

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GAMES

Alien Arena 2007 - Free online FPS first person shooter game that takes a few of the best aspects featured in such popular games as Quake III
and Unreal Tournament and then further combines them with unique and original ideas.
Bricks 2000 - Tetris clone.
Mines-Perfect Portable - a classic hunt-for-mines game with advanced features.
Nexuiz - 3D First Person Shooter Game. Requires nearly 300MB of Free space on the portable device.
PokerTH Portable - Classic Texas Hold Em style poker at its best.
Slow Chess Blitz - Chess game.
Sudoku Portable - The wildly popular and addictive puzzle game.
Typhoon 2001 - Free game that was originally inspired by Tempest and Tempest 2000 an Atari Jaguar Game.

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INTERNET

FileZilla Portable - the full-featured FTP client.
Miranda IM Portable - chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in a customizable interface.
Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition - the award-winning web browser that's safe and secure.
Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition - the handy email client.
Opera Portable - Multitabbed web browser.
Pidgin Portable - chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in an easy-to-use interface.
PuTTY Portable - lightweight telnet and SSH client.
WinSCP Portable - SFTP, FTP and SCP client.

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MULTIMEDIA

FastStone Capture - FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility.
GIMP Portable - Powerful photo and Image Editor.
MPlayer Portable - Full-featured movie player with support for most video formats.
VLC Media Player Portable - An easy to use media player that plays most audio and video formats.

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NETWORK

Angry IP Scanner - Open-source and cross-platform network scanner designed to be fast and simple to use.
CurrPorts - Displays the list of all currently opened TCP/IP and UDP ports on your local computer.
PuTTY Portable - Telnet and SSH client.
SmartSniff - Network packet sniffer TCP/IP packet capture program that enables you to monitor all traffic, open ports and more that pass
through your computer's network adapter without installing a packet driver.
TightVNC - VNC Remote client viewer.
WhoISThisDomain - WHOIS tool.
WirelessKeyView - Displays WLAN settings and keys programmed into your PC.

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OFFICE

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (Address Book) - Email client's built-in address book with import/export functions.
OpenOffice.org Portable - word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility.
Sumatra PDF Portable - a lightweight PDF viewer.

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SECURITY

AdAware - Malware detector / remover.
AVG Anti-Malware - Malware detector / remover.
ClamWin Portable - Antivirus on the go.
CWShredder - Cool Web Search malware remover.
Dr.Web Cure-It - This is a FREE anti-virus and anti-spyware utility based on Dr.Web Anti-virus scanner, which will help you quickly scan and cure, if necessary, a computer operated by MS Windows 95OSR2/ 98/Me/NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
FileASSASSIN - Process and file unlocker / killer.
HijackThis - A general homepage hijackers detector and remover.
IE Pass View - Utility that enables a user to reveal any passwords that might be stored by the Internet Explorer Web Browser.
KeePass Password Safe Portable - Secure, easy-to-use password manager.
MailPass View - Portable password revealer that allows you to view e-mail account information, including username and password for POP accounts in Eudora, IncrediMail, Microsoft Outlook, Outlook Express, and Group Mail Free.
RockXP - Freeware application that allows you to recover Windows XP product key or activation code along with keys for other Microsoft products. Can also recover lost usernames and passwords, MSN logins, Internet connection parameters etc.

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UTILITIES

7-Zip Portable - File archiver and compressor.
Aida32 - Professional system information, diagnostics and benchmarking program running on Win32 platforms.
CCLeaner - Crap cleaner system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system.
CommandPrompt Portable - Simple link to a customizable command prompt.
Converber - Converber is a unit converter that supports more than 300 various units of measure in 22 categories.
DriveMan - Local drives manager displaying the volume label and vendor information so that multiply CD/DVD drives and removable drives such as USB thumb drives can be differentiated by their manufacturers name, version and revision date. Also the serial number can be seen as a unique ID for each drives.
Eraser Portable - securely delete files and data.
FileRecovery - Recover deleted files. From PC Inspector.
MicroBurner - Standalone cd/dvd burning application.
QM - Quick Mail. Email sender. Needs open SMTP server to process outgoing mails.
Recuva - Restore files that have been accidentally deleted from your computer. This includes files emptied from the Recycle bin as well as images and other files that have been deleted by user error from digital camera memory cards or MP3 players
SIW - Elaborate portable system information and diagnostics tool for Windows. A software application that can tell you "everything you ever wanted to know about your Windows operating environment".
StartupList - List the applications launched at the start of Windows.
Toucan - Backup, sync and encrypt for advanced users.
uTorrent - BitTorrent client.

[Guts3d]

Nice! Thanks, I'll definitely check these out.