topherBLOG » Portable Apps http://chris.merrillblogs.com Nurdery, and the life of a very proud husband and father. Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Portable Apps on my Thumb Drive http://chris.merrillblogs.com/2007/09/14/portable-apps-on-my-thumb-drive/ http://chris.merrillblogs.com/2007/09/14/portable-apps-on-my-thumb-drive/#comments Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:51:16 +0000 http://www.plunker.com/blog/2007/09/14/portable-apps-on-my-thumb-drive/ Here is a list of what I carry around with me every day. I will also include the URL if I can find it. Not all programs are defined as being 'Portable' but I have found that they work that way.

I store all of these programs inside a TrueCrypt Volume.

  • Firefox Portable
  • Stand-alone IE6
  • FileZilla Portable - FTP Client -
  • Tunnelier Portable - SSH Client -
  • SUPER - Video Encoder
  • MPlayer Portable - Video Player
  • VirtualDub Portable - Video Encoder
  • VLC Portable - Video Player
  • WinDirStat - Tells me the files clogging up my hard drive
  • ClamWin Portable - Anti Virus
  • Crap Cleaner Portable - Cleans out un-needed windows files -
  • RegCleaner - My personal favorite registry cleaner -
  • Magic Jellybean - Find Windows Key. Very handy if a reinstall is imminent -
  • Duplicate File Finder -
  • NetMeter - check out the current throughput on your network card -
  • SuperScan - IP Scanner. Simple. -
  • VCD Control tool - Quickly mount an ISO as a virtual drive -
  • ISO Creator - Create an ISO from an optical drive -
  • ISO Recorder -
  • utorrent - Obligatory bittorrent client.
  • wxDownloadFast - Download Accelerator -
  • Audacity Portable - Audio Editor -
  • wbStego4 - Stegonagraphy Tool -
  • Virtual Floppy Drive Controller -
  • Resource Hacker -
  • Notepad++ Portable -
  • IrfanView -
  • HTTP File Server -
  • Gimp Portable -
  • Foxit Reader -
  • Floola - iPod file manager. when iTunes just won't do.
  • Baby FTP Server - simple FTP server.
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What is a truecrypt device? TrueCrypt is a program that creates encrypted files. I essentially create one huge encrypted file for my thumbdrive. That way if I lose it, or someone snags it, I have no stress of sensitive information (READ: emails/etc) being compromised.

Here are the downloads : TrueCrypt Mount | TrueCrypt Dismount

One thing of significance is that it mounts to Z: and it calls Z:\PStart.EXE. I use Pstart as the menu for the portable apps I have installed. Soon I will compile a complete List

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