Download Firefox Portable

Synopsis: Mozilla Firefox is an web browser that includes popup blocking, tabbed browsing, smart search and built-in download manager. Firefox Portable is a special build of Mozilla Firefox that is optimized for use on a USB key drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB key as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.

Another alternative is X-Firefox.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the self-extracting EXE and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch FirefoxPortable.exe.

Unicode support: Yes

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista

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Typhoon 2001 V3716

Synopsis: Typhoon 2001 is a remake of the classic Atari Jaguar game, Tempest 2000, which is in itself a remake of the classic game Tempest. This remake, however, is loaded with plenty of graphic bells and whistles as well as a great soundtrack.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the zip package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking typhoon.exe.

Path portability: Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc)

License: Freeware

System Requirements: Win98 / Win2K / WinXP

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PixaMSN

Synopsis: PixaMSN is a tiny MSN Messenger clone. You will log in as Invisible, so no one will notice you're online. Then, if you decide you want to talk, get out of Invisible mode and start chatting, or just switch to Messenger itself.

Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the ZIP file and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on PixaMSN.exe.

License: Freeware/Open Source

System Requirements: Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP

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Universal Extractor

Synopsis: Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from many types of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, MSI, EXE created using various installer packages such as Wise and Inno Setup etc. It is great for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process.

Writes settings to: None

How to extract: Download the RAR package ("UniExtract Binary Archive") and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch UniExtract.exe.

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SilentNight Micro CD Burner

Synopsis: SilentNight Micro CD Burner is a tiny CD burner that lets you select the folder you want to burn to CD, with optional wildcard-based filtering. It supports long file names (Joliet ilesystem) multi-session CDs, audio cd'sfrom MP3/WAV files, Burn Proof/Just Link support etc.

Note: V5.0 is

shareware with a "Light" version that can be used for free. All old functions from V4.x are 100% free to use, but new functions like VCD creation are only available in the registered version

Latest: V6.0 has gone nagware, so I will stick with V5.0 until further notice. Direct download is provided for the last totally free version that I have, in case anyone wants it.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the EXE file and copy to any folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on microburner.exe.

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Foxit Reader

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.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Foxit Reader.exe.

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FastStone Capture V5.3

Synopsis: FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.

Note: FastStone Capture appeared to have gone payware starting from V5.4. Since the license agreement does not prohibit redistribution, I have made the last freeware version (V5.3) available for direct download.

Writes settings to: Application folder

How to extract: Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch the program by double-clicking on FSCapture.exe.

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