The trend of using USB sticks/drives nowadays grows rapidly. We use them because they are so convenient to store and retrieve our files anywhere and anytime. However, there are files that you cannot open just simply because the computers you use don’t have the software you need. What can you do? Download it from the Internet and install? What if you don’t have a right to install those software? What a waste of time!

In that case, having portable software on your own USB sticks/drives to run directly without any installation would be a perfect solution. Here are the portable software that you may need for your on-the-go purposes.

Development

Notepad++

Notepad++ is a free (free as in “free speech”, but also as in “free beer”) source code editor and Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows environment. This is a very powerful tool for developers to debug their code. More about Notepad++…

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Graphic

GIMP

A powerful photo/image editor like Abode Photoshop, but it’s FREE. You should have it with you to enhance your just-been-taken pictures from your camera. More about GIMP…

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Internet

FileZilla

FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP client with lots of handy features. It supports resume on both downloads and uploads, timeout detection, firewall support, SOCKS4/5 and HTTP1.1 support, SSL, SFTP and more, all with an intuitive drag and drop interface. More about FileZilla…

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Miranda

No Yahoo Messenger? No MSN? No IRC? No AIM? No ICQ? No problem! With Miranda inside your USB drives/sticks, you can still login to those Instant Messaging Services at the same time. More about Miranda…

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Firefox

The most popular Web Browser on the Internet. Try portable Firefox if you cannot open IE at your workplace

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Thunderbird

Thunderbird comes along with Firefox as an email client like Microsoft Outlook.

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Internet Download Manager (IDM)

A software that supports downloading from the Internet that I have mention on my How To Download Movie From The Internet Part 2 post. If your network is slow with normal download from IE or Firefox, use this software and you will see the difference clearly.

Music & Video

Audacity

Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:

• Record live audio.
• Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
• Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, WAV or AIFF sound files.
• Cut, copy, splice or mix sounds together.
• Change the speed or pitch of a recording.
• And more! See the complete list of features.

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WinAmp 5.5 Pro

A powerful music player and organizer. Getting bored with your Window Media Player? Want a new taste? Try WinAmp 5.5 Pro and you will love it for sure. More about WinAmp…

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VLC Media Player

If we have WinAmp for playing and organizing music, we cannot miss VLC Media Player for playing movie. VLC media player is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, …) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. It can also be used as a server to stream in unicast or multicast in IPv4 or IPv6 on a high-bandwidth network. More about VLC Media Player…

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InfraRecorder

Need to burn a CD/DVD quickly? InfraRecorder is all you need. More about InfraRecorder…

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#1 DVD Ripper 7.1

#1 DVD Ripper provides you a fast and easy way to back up your favorite DVD movies and not worry your children might be scratching the copies during day-to-day use. You can easily convert DVD to AVI with latest DivX codec , MP4/H264, MPEG, WMV, MP3 and other formats. You can take your DVD’s on the plane, train or automobile, watch them on your computer, laptop, iPod, iPhone, PSP or pocket pc on vacation, at work or at school, no matter where you are, no need to take DVD Disc.

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Office

OpenOffice

An office suite — including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database — that can be replace by Microsoft Office.

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Microsoft Office 2007

Portable Microsoft Office that I’ve collected from Updatesofts forum. It doesn’t have full features like the original version. Use it as your own risk

http://rapidshare.com/files/81115278/…Enterprise_English.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81115244/…Enterprise_English.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81115211/…Enterprise_English.part3.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81115177/…Enterprise_English.part4.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81115152/…Enterprise_English.part5.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/81115018/…Enterprise_English.part6.rar
Password: www.freshwap.net

OR

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F3UNVFFZ
Password: www.dl4all.com
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PDFTK Builder

If you need to split, collate, watermark and password protect your PDF documents, try PDFTK Builder. More about PDFTK Builder…

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Sumatra PDF

PDF Reader instead of Adobe Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader. More about Sumatra PDF…

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Task Coach

Task Coach is a simple open source todo manager to manage personal tasks and todo lists. More about Task Coach…

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System

Driver Genius

Driver Genius Professional is a professional driver management tool features both driver management and hardware diagnostics. Driver Genius provides such practical functions as driver backup, restoration, update and removal for computer users. If you lost all your driver disks, don’t worry! Driver Genuis will get all necessary drivers back for your computers. Just simply run the program, update and download driver. More about Driver Genius…

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PC Security Tweak 7.6

PC Security Tweaker is a security tweaking utility you can use to tweak Windows-based computers. It is compatible with all Windows versions and lets you control which users are allowed to access your PC and the level of access each user may have. You can choose to tweak access to lots of Control Panel applet functions, including Display, Network, Passwords, Printers, System, Add/Remove Programs, etc. More about PC Security Tweak…

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Partition Manager 8.0

Partition Manager is the best tool available today! It provides flawless partitioning operations of all kind: resize, merge, split partitions and redistribute free space, initiate new hard drive, convert to different file systems and much more. More about Paragon Partition Manager…

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TuneUp 2008

Improve your system’s performance, thoroughly clean up your hard drives, solve your PC problems with a few clicks, and customize windows to your personal requirements. All in one program, simple and intuitive - TuneUp Utilities 2008. More about TuneUp…

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Ultilities

7-Zip

7-Zip is a file archiver with a high compression ratio like WinZip or WinRar. More about 7-Zip…

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ClamWin Antivirus

Your on-the-go antivirus software in emergency. This software provides the update function, so you don’t have to worry if the virus definition is out-of-date. More about ClamWin Antivirus…

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Eraser

Eraser Portable is a secure file-deletion and data wiping utility. With support for multiple wipes, pattern writing and more, it can be used to securely delete any sensitive data. More about Eraser…

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KeePass Password

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. More about KeePass Password…

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Notice: The software with red titles are not fully license, so some features of them are missing. This might cause the programs frozen or damaged while using. Please buy full versions of those software at vendor’s websites or use them at your own risks.

written by Brian Nguyen