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Best of portable applications for your flashdrive

Posted on 15 January 2010 by admin

A  portable application can be run from your usb drive or external storage device rather than installing it in your computer . If you need to carry your applications to where ever you go , then you should be aware of the best of portable applications. This collection of portable applications consists of more than 15 applications.

Vlc player – One of the best , multimedia players available . It is a good option to carry this superb media player as it is capable of playing almost anything under the sun .

vlcplayer

vlcplayer

MediaPlayer Classic – Just like vlc player it supports a lot of video formats , and its huge collection of video codecs make it an excellent choice for  multimedia freaks.

mediaplayerclassic

mediaplayerclassic

CDBurner XP – Portable freeware for burning dvds and cds . CDBurner XP is capable of even burning bluray and HD dvds. CDBurner XP even offers features for burning iso images and is a freely available software.

FastStone Capture – FastStone Capture is a screen-shot utility , which supports a lot of features like  floating Capture Panel,shortcut keys , resize function crop function, text annotation, print support , e-mail, zoom  and lots more.

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faststone-photo-editing-software-screenshot-1

VDownloader – As the name suggest , VDownloader is small tool for downloading videos from  the internet .

vdownloader

vdownloader

Notepad ++ – Portable edition Document editor , which has advanced features like indentation and language support . Because of its ease of use and stability , it is usually kept as a replacement for notepad.

Portable OpenOffice – The complete office suite for your computer , and that too for free . Portable OpenOffice is really worth carrying  as it supports almost all document formats . Generally considered as an alternative to Microsoft Office.

Foxit PdfReader – A nice small pdf reader which even offers portability . Foxit Reader is a free software and considered as an alternative to adobe acrobat reader.

foxit reader

foxit reader

Pstart – Portable launcher , absolutely free of cost . Pstart is completely rid of ads or spyware .

pstart

pstart

CCleaner – CCleaner is a small tool that can take care of all your computer , from repairing registries to erasing your web browsing history .

ccleaner2

ccleaner2

?torrent – Bittorrent client that is portable , and  small with a simple and clean interface .

Portable Firefox -  Firefox , not to mention it’s name . Everyone around here had been using firefox , for long days . Ya ,there is a portable version for your favourite web browser .

TrueCrypt Portable – Having unencrypted data on your harddisk can be a security risk , when the data contained is important . TrueCrypt can take care of all your data , ensuring privacy .

TrueCrypt

TrueCrypt

Portable Antivir Personal Edition – Portable antivirus comes in handy , when you are in a strange computer . Run your antivirus and things will be fine and you can work in full confidence.

Pidgin – I have heard a lot of Pidgin freaks crying , when pidgin was removed from Ubuntu 9.10 with empathy . Pidgin is an  instant messaging client  .Pidgin can take care of your AOL ,Yahoo, MSN and much more.

Feel free to post your comments . If any nice applications other than this are known to you, let me know please post it here .

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FEDORA 12 REVIEW

Posted on 01 December 2009 by admin

With the release of fedora 12 ,we decided to give it a try with a 64 bit live cd on a Toshiba machine.There is no good difference in appearance with the older editions of fedora ,just some changes in Nautilus icons.What to say,they offer a clear and clean appearance.

Firefox is preloaded with some addons like java and media works.But flash is not present.If needed you can install them.

The overall performance of the system has increased with the new launch.Moreover on the instant messaging companion Pidgin has been replaced with Empathy.The wireless device support is simply amazing and it detects all hardware easily.Bluetooth options have been increased and it even supports file sharing with via bluetooth.

Fedora has introduced a  third party product for Fedora called Easy Life which helps you to configure anything you need .

It does the following:

  • Sets “sudo” command up for your regular user.
  • Configures RPMFusion repository for extra and non-free software for use.
  • Installs Flash Player plugin for .swf,.flv file formats.
  • Installs all kinds of multimedia Codecs for playing video and audio.
  • Installs additional fonts.
  • Installs Skype.
  • Integrates Sun Java with system-switch-java for easy use.
  • Installs Google applications like Picasa, Desktop etc.
  • And many others…

Fedora  has done a great job considering security and performance in this release .As usual it is easy to use .

fedora 12 screenshots..

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Empathy .. the best chat client for Linux. Support both voice and video chat

Posted on 15 November 2009 by admin

Empathy call log

Empathy call log

Empathy is a IM/voice /video client that uses Gossips’s UI and Nokia’s MissionControl

The main goal of empathy is is libempathy and libempathy-gtk libraries which permits desktop integration. The widgets made in libempathy-gtk can be used to embed into any GNOME application

Empathy is one of the chat clients that uses various libraries of the known Telepathy . If You have a MSN chat account setup in and have a telepathy aware client then it automatically transfer your information across the client which is pretty cool.

Empathy is a multiple protocol client that includes Jabber , Gtalk, MSN , IRS , Salut and all the protocols supported by pidgin

Making call using Empathy

Making call using Empathy

The various features are

1.  Provides specialized user interface for all protocols for ex the account editor

2. Auto away protocols using the gnome screen saver tech.

3. Asks the network manager to automatically re-connect if the connection gets interrupted.

4. It allows both private and group chat.

5.Allows you to add themes for the chats.

6.Allows you to keep a log of your chat and even backup your chats.

7. Provides an interface for viewing and editing contact information.

8.Allows voice and video calls

9.helps in establishing a collaborative work using the tubes

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