Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Best Android Portable Apps


Audio

CoolPlayer
A tiny, super-fast audio player.
Audacity
An open-source, simple and powerful audio editor.
CDex
Extract audio from CDs reliably.
SharePod
Manage an iPod with no iTunes from any Windows computer.
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Communication

Email Stripper
A free application that cleans up long email threads.
Pidgin
A multi-protocol IM client. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
Miranda IM
Another multi-protocol IM client, with a ton of plugins.
Skype
Not an official installer, but from PortableApps.com.


Image Editors and Viewers

Easy Image Modifier
A tool for resizing, flipping, converting, watermarking and renaming images.
InkScape
An open-source vector editor. Think “Illustrator” or “CorelDRAW” — not as powerful, but free.
GIMP
Think “free Photoshop” with a cluttered interface. Powerful, but an acquired taste. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
AndreaMosaic
A free application for creating photomosaics (pictures made up of tiled pictures).
Fotografix
A tiny image editr aimed at photograpers and designers.


Productivity

WriteMonkey
A fantastic full-screen text editor for distraction-free editing. I use it all the time.
Abiword
A free, open-source word processor. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
Notepad2
A text editor with programmer-friendly features.
FocusWriter
Another full-screen editor for a Zen-like writing experience.
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OpenOffice
Not as slick as MS Office, but it will do in a pinch. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
Programmer’s Notepad 2.2
A powerful text editor for developers.
XAMPP
The Apache Web server, MySQL, PHP, and Perl, all bundled together in one portable ZIP.
TreePad Lite
A personal information manager for notes and other information.
Stickies
A fantastic sticky-note application, packaged by PortableApps.com.


Security and Privacy

ClamWin
A portable, powerful and free antivirus. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
LicenseCrawler
Crawls a computer for software serial licenses.
TrueCrypt
Create encrypted virtual hard drives. Link leads to portable mode documentation.
KeePass
The golden standard when it comes to securely managing passwords and logins.


Suites

PortableApps.com Suite
A launcher interface for all portable apps from PortableApps.com.
SysInternals Suite
For administrators and technicians: All SysInternals troubleshooting utilities rolled into one ZIP file.
NirLauncher
A collection of over 100 portable freeware Windows system tools, all by NirSoft.


System Tools

7-Zip
A file archiver supporting ZIP, as well as the powerful 7z format and more. Packaged by PortableApps.com.
Zscreen
A screenshot application with numerous file handling options. No portable download, see link for instructions.
Zip2Fix
A tool for extracting undamaged files from a corrupted ZIP file.
Recuva
A tool for undeleting files, from makes of Ccleaner.
SpaceSniffer
A tool for visualizing disk usage. Find out what’s hogging all that space!
Everything
An ultra-fast search utility — searches filenames only, does not index content.
CCleaner
Cleans up any system by getting rid of unneeded files and other junk.
TeamViewer
The golden standard for remote control.
Portable Keyboard Layout
Use an alternative keyboard layout (Colemak, Dvorak)? Take it with you!
GetFolderSize
Used for determining the size of folders and subfolders on a drive.
Process Explorer
Windows Task Manager, on steroids. Made by Sysinternals, now a part of Microsoft.
Camstudio
Screen-recording software, packaged by PortableApps.com.
Snaptimer
A keyboard-friendly countdown timer.
Clipcube
A tiny clipboard history monitor.


Video

VLC Player
A “do-it-all” free, open-source video player. Can also play audio.
VirtualDub
A tool for editing and encoding videos, with support for batch-processing.
Splayer
A visually striking, multi-format video player, with subtitle auto-download. Tiny link for portable version.
Avidemux
A video editor designed for simple tasks such as cutting, filtering, and encoding.


Web and FTP

Filezilla
A powerful, open-source FTP client.
Opera portable
An awesome browser that gets too little love. Official installer supports portable option.
Google Chrome
Google’s Web browser, packaged by PortableApps.com.
Firefox
If you don’t use Chrome, you are probably using Firefox. Packaged by PortableApps.com.


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