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

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

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

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

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

pstart

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

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?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

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 .

MSOFFICE 2010 puts a large emphasis on not only desktop applications, but mobile products and Office Web Applications that will allow users access to free hosted Office applications that can be used from both PCs and Macs. MSOFFICE 2010 is Compatible with IE, Firefox, and Safari, these Web Applications allow you to use Office on the go without needing Office 2010 installed on your PC. Office 2010 also is the first version of Office to ship in both a 32- and 64-bit version and both will come on one disc as well.

Office Web Apps

Microsoft  to offer a free web-based version of its Office productivity suite, known as Office Web Apps, that will debut with the release of Office 2010.The web apps will allow sharing and collaboration of documents and files and also feature user interfaces similar to their desktop counterparts.

Backstage View

Office 2010 replaces the old File menu in all of the applications with something called “Backstage View.” This contains familiar tasks like Save, Print and Publish. However, it also makes a lot of document-specific information including Document Mode, Permissions, Prepare for Distribution, and Versions readily available.

Backstage View didn’t stand out to me when I was looking over the list of new features. However, I was quickly sold on it while testing Word 2010, because it put all of my important document management information into a single view.

Ribbon Menu Enhancements

While Office 2010 keeps the ribbon menu that was introduced in Office 2007, it now extends across the entire Microsoft Office 2010 suite. While the ribbon has just as many detractors as it does lovers, Microsoft has made many improvements over the version found in Office 2007. In particular, it lets you customize it to your particular working style in each application. The ribbon received a lot of criticism in the 2007 release, but these enhancements should build greater acceptance of perhaps the most drastic Office interface change so far.

Support for Co-authoring

Word 2010, OneNote 2010, and PowerPoint 2010 now include a co-authoring feature, enabling multiple authors to work on the same document at the same time. This is a welcome change from having to use SharePoint, where only one author at a time can check a document out for editing. The addition of co-authoring is really ratcheting Office 2010’s collaboration options.

Improved Conversation View in Outlook 2010

Email management can be a challenge to even the most experienced web worker. To help tame your inbox, Outlook 2010 includes an improved Conversation View, which includes:

• Show Messages from All Folders
• Reverse Sort
• Add Columns
• Expand/Collapse

I am pleased with the new, more granular Conversation View. The controls are very accessible and usable, showing a definite improvement over Outlook 2007.

NEW FEATURES

• Background Removal Tool
• Letter Styling
• Screen Capturing and Clipping tools
• “Mark As Final” Function
• Jumplist

Open office or OO.o is a free office application suite.It is now owned by oracle which recently purchased from Sun Microsystems.From my own experience i found that it is a lot better in a numerous ways. And the best part is that it is free for everyone and we dont have to pay 300$ for it.Its sourcecode is open to all to modify and edit,which opens up a great oppurtunity for the programming freaks.

OpenOffice.org is an a must have software package.And for most people is a suitable replacement for Microsoft Office.It contains ‘writer’  which  is not just a word processor, but also offers spreadsheet functionality roughly equivalent to Excel, a presentation program (Impress)which is, more or less, comparable to Power Point.Calc is excelent spreadsheet program which is capable of doing anything that excel offer you .In addition, OpenOffice.org now contains a built-in relational database application similar to MS Access.

Another cool feature of openoffice is  is its ability to work with many other office suite file formats. You can save your documents as MS Word (or many other) documents and they will open up just as you intended in Word.You can also convert your file to pdf format in just a click when using ‘writer’.

writer in action

One of the suite’s most useful features are its wizards, which walk you through creating spreadsheets, presentations, and other documents.OpenOffice works with an extremely wide variety of formats, including the OpenDocument Format (ODF) 1.2 standard, as well as documents created in Microsoft Office 2007 and Office 2008 for the Mac. You can even export files to PDF.

So why you waiting???  switch over to openoffice.Save 300$ and be proud to be a part of opensource community.

Once the market was over crowded with stuff which copyright for each and every thing.Now the situation has changed with more people indulged in software development combined with the ethic of serving the soceity everything has changed upside down.Now we hear of Linux and Free Software very often.The sentence  “live in a world with out walls “had never been so true.ok,Let us consider some of the cases in the field of softwares.

Linux is becoming so popular that it is a common word in our life.Even small children are aware of linux.It is becoming a great rival over windows.Take a look at various distros to see how much they have evolved .See nimblex that definitely blew my mind.Internet Browser world  has been taken over by firefox taking  IE* to behind the curtains.Gimp is slowly replacing Photoshop.I will not say it is at present as advanced as photoshop it is evolving fastly that one day it will get over photoshop.The multimedia world have been taken over by Vlc player.It is so stunning that in their website the no of downloads are uncountable.It plays almost everything and much more advanced than its competitors.Notepad in all computers have been replaced by much advanced notepad++ which is simply magnificient.Torrent clients are now replaced by Bittorrent.The world of virtualization is available to everyone with sun virtual box.

Microsoft office is having a hard time with openoffice.Much better and  what you say ,it is a free bear.Consider the wikipedia with almost everything you have to know or you need to know.Consider source forge where you can find every thing you need to develop something.Let me say one thing frankly i cant list all the advancements and alternatives it is because the list never ends.The time i have finished this article new one might have released.Foxit reader replacing adobe reader ,7zip replacing winrar etc,are some of the few advancements.What to say antivirus will be replaced by Clamwin antivirus .The case is not different for other stuff.Databases are replaced by mysql and much more.

If interested take a look at 10 free softwares for windows you shouldnt miss.

Yes the world is going to change everything we see now is being changed with time …..