Celestia Portable

the portable space simulator

Celestia Portable is the popular planetarium program packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can view the universe in 3-D anywhere. It has all the same great features as Celestia including 3-D planet viewing, viewing over 100,000 stars, traveling beyond our galaxy, and more. Plus, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite astronomy program with you wherever you go.

Features

Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit. Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Nathan D.) and the Celestia Developers
• Date updated: 2009-08-15
• System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: launcher source (included), Celestia source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): ef57398ca8870a14b532372579f22202

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Marble Portable

virtual globe and atlas

Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.

Features

Of course it's also possible to measure distances between locations or watch the current cloud cover. Marble offers different thematic maps: A classroom-style topographic map, a satellite view, street map, earth at night and temperature and precipitation maps. All maps include a custom map key, so it can also be used as an educational tool for use in class-rooms. For educational purposes you can also change date and time and watch how the starry sky and the twilight zone on the map change.
In opposite to other virtual globes Marble also features multiple projections: Choose between a Flat Map ("Plate carré"), Mercator or the Globe.
The best of all: Marble is Free Software / Open Source Software and promotes the usage of free maps.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Kenny Williams) & Marble team
• Date Updated / Originally Released: 2010-12-11 / 2010-12-11
• System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: GPL (Launcher and App)
• Source Code: PortableApps.com Launcher, Marble Source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 24f624678fd1b25aba9deed239337248

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cdrtfe Portable cd, dvd, vcd burner

Features

cdrtfe supports the following features:

• Data CDs
• Audio CDs (including CD-Plus)
• XCDs (with optional error protection)
• Video CDs
• Audio track extraction (wav, mp3, ogg, flac, userdefined)
• Project files
• Can be used with commandline options
• Multi language support
• DVD support: Data and Video DVDs

Download Details

• Publisher: Oliver Valencia & PortableApps.com
• Date updated: 2011-01-04
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: PortableApps.com Launcher, cdrtfe
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 0fe06d0b4d86ce0850f29920d35b6f43

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VirtualDub Portable

video processing to go

VirtualDub Portable is a desktop video processing and capture application.

Features

VirtualDub Portable is a video capture/processing utility. It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images.
Codecs Note: VirtualDub uses a combination of plugins for codecs (see the VirtualDub Portable Plugins Pack linked at the top of this page) and codecs on the local machine, so if you wish to use a non-standard codec like DivX or XVID, you'll need it installed. This is unavoidable at the moment.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com and the VirtualDub Team
• Date updated: 2011-01-14
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
• License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
• Source Code: Launcher (included), VirtualDub source, plugins source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): ccd664221b75cabc8a321a986a3c3121
• Downloads: 293,000

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Skype Portable Free

instant messaging, video chat and phone calls

Skype lets you connect to others via instant message, audio conferencing and video phone. It can also call regular phone lines from anywhere in the world. It's packaged as a portable app so you can communicate on the go.

Features

Skype-to-Skype calls, video calls and instant messaging are free, any time of the day or night, anywhere in the world. Call phones and mobiles and send SMS messages at great value Pay As You Go rates, or call unlimited* to certain countries with a subscription.

• Free Skype-to-Skype calls.
• Call phones and mobiles, send SMS.
• Free instant messaging.
• Voicemail.
• Free video call.
• Forward calls to a phone when you’re offline.

Download Details

• Publisher: Skype Technologies SA
• Date updated: 2011-02-01
• System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: Freeware
• Source Code: N/A
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 96036ca6ce8d586978c812bcc8ecb832

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FreeCommander Portable

easy-to-use windows file manager

FreeCommander is an easy-to-use alternative to the standard windows file manager with lots of advanced and helpful features. It's packaged as a portable app so you can bring it anywhere.

Features

• Dual-panel technology - horizontal and vertical
• Tabbed interface
• Optional tree view for each panel
• Built in file viewer to view files in hex, binary, text or image format
• File viewer inside archives too
• Built in archive handling: ZIP (read, write), CAB (read, write), RAR (read)
• Nested archive handling
• Built in FTP client
• Easy access to system folders, control panel, desktop and start menu
• Copy, move, delete, rename files and folders
• Multi rename tool
• Wipe files
• Create and verify MD5 checksums
• File splitting
• File properties and context menu
• Calculation of folder size
• Folder comparison / synchronization
• Modification of file date and attributes
• Folder / program favorites
• File searching (inside archive too)
• File filters for display
• User defined columns for detailed view
• DOS command line
• Multiple language support

Download Details

• Publisher: Marek Jasinski
• Date updated: 2010-09-30
• System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: Freeware
• Source Code: N/A
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 08d4d0d14385cd6827f7887f5f191e47

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AniFX Portable

full-featured cursor editor

AniFX is a full-featured cursor editor. It is an all-in-one solution for cursor creation, extraction and editing.

Features

With a wealth of tools and more than 40 effects at your fingertips, there’s virtually no limit to the cursors you can create. You can easily convert your favorite images into cursors, or cursors into images. AniFX gives you the possibility to change cursors inside exe files. Convert your GIF files to animated cursors and vice versa. With AniFX you can extract cursors from other files, including Windows Vista and Macintosh files. You can easily work with multiple files using the batch processing capability of AniFX.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Vic Saville) and Attila Kovrig
• Date updated: 2011-01-15
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: Freeware
• Source Code: Launcher (included)
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 9f1fcdcd88e14abb5ce5246609415a28

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FreeMat Portable

scientific prototyping and technical computing

FreeMat is a free environment for rapid engineering and scientific prototyping and data processing. It is similar to commercial systems such as MATLAB from Mathworks, and IDL from Research Systems, but is Open Source.

 

Features

• N-dimensional array manipulation (by default, N is limited to 6)
• Support for 8,16, 32, and 64 bit integer types (signed and unsigned), 32 and 64 bit floating point types, and 64 and 128 bit complex types.
• Built in arithmetic for manipulation of all supported data types.
• Support for solving linear systems of equations via the divide operators.
• Eigenvalue and singular value decompositions
• Full control structure support (including, for, while, break, continue, etc.)
• 2D plotting and image display
• Heterogeneous array types (called “cell arrays” in MATLAB-speak) fully supported
• Full support for dynamic structure arrays
• Arbitrary-size FFT support
• Pass-by-reference support (an IDL feature)
• Keyword support (an IDL feature)
• Codeless interface to external C/C++/FORTRAN code
• Native sparse matrix support
• Function pointers (eval and feval are fully supported)
• Classes, operator overloading
• 3D Plotting and visualization via OpenGL
• Handle-based graphics

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Bart.S)
• Date Updated / Originally Released: 2010-10-15 / 2010-10-15
• System Requirements: 2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: GPL
• Source Code: Launcher (included), FreeMat Source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 6801a7ed5ab5e8447cf0995b96205680

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KeePass Password Safe Portable

KeePass Portable is the popular KeePass Password Safe packaged as a portable app, so you can securely carry your email, internet and other passwords with you. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Features

KeePass is a free/open-source password manager or safe which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. So you only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database. The databases are encrypted using the best and most secure encryption algorithms currently known (AES-256 and Twofish).

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and the KeePass Developers
• Date updated: 2010-09-22
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7 (does not work on Wine under *nix)
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, KeePass: GPL)
• Source Code: launcher source (included), KeePass source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): b5a2df423a4995d9b97dcd03586551b9
• Downloads: over 2.6 million

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition is 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.Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more. Plus, thanks to the PortableApps.com launcher bundled in the Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your favorite browser along with all your favorite bookmarks and extensions with you wherever you go.

Download Details

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (John T. Haller) and Mozilla
• Date updated: 2010-12-09
• System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source (Launcher: GPL, Firefox: MPL/GPL/LPGL under Mozilla EULA)
• Source Code: Launcher source (included), Firefox source
• MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 41d47152d572de9331b5cea57cfb6179
• Downloads: over 19 million

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Google Chrome Portable

Features

Google Chrome's features include:

• Quick to start up
• Loads web pages in a snap
• Runs web applications faster than ever
• Designed for efficiency and ease of use
• Search and navigate to web pages from the same box
• Arrange and organize tabs however you wish — quickly and easily
• Get to your favorite websites with just a click, from the thumbnails of your most visited sites in the New Tab page
• Themes to add delight to your browser

Passwords Not Saved Between PCs By Default: Google Chrome stores passwords in such a way that they are encrypted in a way tied to current PC. While the passwords are not kept or left behind on the PC itself, they won't be retrievable when you move to a new PC. We've added password portability as an advanced option, though, which you can enable by reading the help.html file.
Certificates Not Portable: Google Chrome has no certificate manager. It uses Windows' certificates manager. So, any certificates you install through the Google Chrome interface are stored on the current local machine and will not travel with you. Thus, you should absolutely not use any private certificates with Google Chrome except on your own PC.

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Free Songbird Portable V1.9.3

Synopsis: Songbird Portable is a feature-rich iTunes-like media manager and player with easy-to-navigate media library and a long list of supported devices. Like iTunes, the program supports audio, video, and photo sync, and can import or export to or from iTunes. The program supports many more devices than iTunes (although not Apple's devices), a much longer list of audio formats, and can use skins to change the look and feel.

The program supports lyrics, folder watch, dynamic playlists, album artwork, and gapless playback, equalizer, etc. Includes an integrated web browser (Firefox) and works with internet radio sources. Add-ons to extend features with several default and downloadable tools including CD-Rip, concert lookup for artists, music store and both Quicktime (if installed) and Windows Media Video formats.
Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract:

   1. Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a system temporary folder (c:\windows\temp or c:\winnt\temp).
   2. Launch SongbirdPortable.exe from this temporary folder and install desired plugins when prompted.
   3. Close the program and move \SongbirdPortable to a folder of your choice.
   4. Launch SongbirdPortable.exe.

Optionally, to make the program more stealth, disable the browser caching. Go to Tools - Options - Privacy - Private Data - Check "Always clear my private data when I close Songbird". Finally, click Settings and make sure all boxes are checked.
Stealth [?]: No. Will save some settings to the system temp directory you specified in the extraction process above.
License: Launcher: GPL, Songbird: GPL, MPL, and others
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7

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Foxit Reader Portable V4.3.1

Category: PDF - Editors (4), PDF - Readers (9)
Synopsis: Foxit Reader is a small and fast PDF viewer that is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. It includes Javascript support, interactive form filler, annotation tools and built-in text converter. Foxit Reader Portable is a portable wrapper for Foxit Reader.

A stealth alternative is the JPE launcher package of this application.
Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FoxitReaderPortable.exe.
Stealth [?]: Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Freeware
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7

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OpenOffice Portable V3.2.0

Category: Productivity - Office Suites (4)
Synopsis: OpenOffice is a full-featured, cross-platform office suite compatible with all major office suites and 100s of file formats. Includes word processing, drawing, spreadsheet, database, word processor, and math/formulas software. Portable OpenOffice is a special build of OpenOffice that is optimized for flash memory.
To enabling grammar checking, see this thread in the forums.

Note that there are no legal portable packages of OpenOffice.org newer than version 3.2.0 as it can not legally be repackaged due to a new trademark restriction from Oracle.

Alternately, X-OpenOffice is also available.
Writes settings to: Application folder
How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to any folder of your choice. Launch OpenOfficePortable.exe.
Stealth [?]: Yes
Unicode support: Yes
License: Launcher: GPL, Program: LGPL
System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista 

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