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 .

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

?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 .

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 .

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

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