If you’ve been watching way too many Space:1999 re-runs like I have lately, you might have gotten the urge to travel through space and explore the universe. If so, here’s a neat little portable app to help you do that; it’s called Celestia and it’s available at portableapps.com. Here’s an image of the Moon:
The portableapps [...]
Here’s a fun little weekend project to do: make a wall sized poster to decorate your room.
There are two portable tools to help you do this. The first is Rasterbator, which now has a portable version of their online image rasterizing software. Check out their gallery for inspiration and to get an idea of [...]
One of the biggest gripes I have with my iPod Classic is the fact that it does not play AVI format video files. 3GP Converter is a Windows-based lightweight and portable software for converting your videos to several formats, including iPod.
After you unzip the download, click on setup.exe to select your preferences. If you’re converting [...]
Textwedge is a portable text file splitter. Text splitters have various uses, but they are invaluable if you have an iPod and love to read ebooks due to the 4 KB file size limitations it imposes.
How to Split eBooks for your iPod
Step 1: Open up Textwedge and select Dialogs from the main menu.
Step 2: In [...]
Lifehacker blog pointed out this nifty little stickies app for Windows called Hott Notes. A free app with lots of neat features like alarms, checkboxes and a desktop manager so that you can archive your notes and manage them more easily. Make sure to select the Portable Edition from the author’s website if you want [...]
I have been typing like a maniac since installing the awesome Q10 editor – a simple full-screen editor whose slogan is: your inner critic will hate this editor. This small (400 KB, or 900KB for the spell checker version), completely portable editor is for Windows only.
Opening up Q10 blackens your screen, and displays eye-friendly orange [...]
BPM Notepad is a really simple portable app that allows you to automatically scroll down a text file at variable speeds for hands-free reading. It’s especially targeted to guitar players who need to scroll down a tab while playing – really useful!
Platforms: Windows, Linux
Size: about 2 MB
I recently talked about a single-pane outliner, and decided to try out a two-pane outliner called The Guide. It’s a lot more feature-rich and mature compared to TKOutliner. Outliners are great for planning out your writing, storing information and even managing your to do lists. The Guide is great for planning your outline and offers [...]
I was looking for a guitar tuner this week and found this site: http://www.yellow-gold-soft.com/.
It has a Guitar Tuning Fork and several other music-related free software such as
Tonometer to tune a variety of musical instruments
Musical Examiner to train your musical ear
Metronome
And a little Flash-based Virtual Piano
I’ve been searching for a simple outline tool for writing and found this little gem, called TKOutline, which happens to be portable. This application is simple to use and is self-contained in a single exe file of 1.2 MB. It exports to text, HTML, OPML and XML.
It features the usual from outlining tools that can’t [...]
A useful portable app to have on your flash drive is the Unstoppable Copier.
From the author’s website:
Recovers files from disks with physical damage. Allows you to copy files from disks with problems such as bad sectors, scratches or that just give errors when reading data. The program will attempt to recover every readable piece [...]
I finally decided to do something about all the bits of paper hanging around containing my user ids and passwords. On PortableApps.com, I tested out a really good utility for managing and storing your passwords called KeePass.
This small utility (1.27 MB) allows you to group all your user names and passwords by category so they [...]
Here’s a really good portable IRC app I tested over the weekend called Hydrairc. It’s only 2 MB, free and very easy to use!
