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List of portable software

List of portable software is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand List of portable software rather than just read about it. In short: For the purposes of this list, a portable application is software that can be used from portable storage devices such as USB flash drives, digital audio players, PDAs or external hard drives. To be considered for inclusion, an application must be executable on multiple computers from removable storage without installation, and without writing settings or data onto a computer's non-removable storage.

Key takeaways

List of portable software belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect List of portable software to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of List of portable software from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

For the purposes of this list, a portable application is software that can be used from portable storage devices such as USB flash drives, digital audio players, PDAs or external hard drives. To be considered for inclusion, an application must be executable on multiple computers from removable storage without installation, and without writing settings or data onto a computer's non-removable storage. This includes modified portable versions of non-portable applications.

Bundles Ceedo MojoPac PortableApps.com U3 WinPenPack

Launchers

Appetizer (Dock application) ASuite Launchy RocketDock

Development

Scripting languages Portable Python Portable NSIS Version Portable AutoIt Portable AutoHotkey (zip file) Portable Perl (Strawberry Perl Portable Version)

Compilers MinGW Tiny C Compiler

IDEs Alice IDE Portable Eclipse Portable Code::Blocks (needs MinGW installed, which is portable too) Portable Dev-C++ Hackety Hack, which is an educational version of Ruby SharpDevelop Portable

Setup creators Nullsoft Scriptable Install System Portable (PortableApps.com format)

Visual mapping/productivity tools XMIND

Graphics

3D modeling and rendering Anim8or – Free 3D modeling and animating software. Blender: BlenderPortable Blender Pocket XBlender

Animation Anim8or Blender Pivot Stickfigure Animator

Graphic editors ArtRage Artweaver Dia EVE Fotografix GIMP: GIMP Portable VS 2008 is the Gimp portable version of Gimp on Windows platforms (Windows XP, Vista, NT Server 2003, NT Server 2008) Portable Gimp – for Mac OS X X-Gimp X-GimpShop Inkscape: X-Inkscape Portable Inkscape – for Mac OS X IrfanView Pixia Tux Paint

Icon editors @icon sushi GIMP – Supports reading and writing Windows ICO files. IcoFX IrfanView – Supports converting graphic file formats into Windows ICO files.

Viewers FastStone Image Viewer: supports screen capture, multiple pix into a single PDF Irfanview XnView

Document-based

Office and publishing Abiword AllMyNotes Organizer Atlantis Word Processor Jarte LibreOffice OpenOffice.org Scribus StarOffice

Editors EmEditor Professional Geany Metapad Notepad++ PSPad SciTE Sublime Text TED Notepad Textpad UltraEdit VEDIT Vim

Personal notes Personal Knowbase

Educational Celestia GCompris Maxima Stellarium Calibre

Games AssaultCube Cave Story Dwarf Fortress Doom I / II Frets on Fire Kerbal Space Program Minecraft PokerTH Quake Secret Maryo Chronicles Tile World Warzone 2100 Xonotic

Emulators DOSBox – MS-DOS emulator FCE Ultra – Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) emulator MAME – Multiple Arcade Machine emulator: MAMEUI32 VisualBoyAdvance – Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance emulator ZSNES – Super NES emulator

Plug-in emulators JoyToKey – Gamepad emulator

Internet

Web browsers Brave Chromium Falkon Firefox Portable Google Chrome Portable Links Maxthon Browser Opera Pale Moon Pocket K-Meleon Lynx QtWeb SeaMonkey SlimBrowser SRWare Iron Portable Sleipnir Waterfox XeroBank Browser

Email clients Mail – for Mac OS X Mozilla Thunderbird Portable Modest Pegasus Mail Pine Opera (has integrated Email client) SeaMonkey sylpheed (zip version) The Bat! Voyager

Instant messaging Adium – for Mac OS X aMSN Google Talk Portable iChat – for Mac OS X Miranda NG Pidgin Portable (formerly Gaim Portable) Psi Portable Skype Trillian Anywhere Yahoo! Messenger

FTP clients WinSCP FileZilla Portable Cyberduck SmartFTP FlashFXP

Download managers Wget HTTrack Free Download Manager (installation required to create portable version) Opera (Integrated Download Manager)

P2P file sharing BitComet (needs msxml) Emule Opera (integrated torrent client) μTorrent (latest version) Halite FrostWire Limewire Portable qBittorrent Portable Vuze Portable

IRC ChatZilla Note: Requires a Mozilla based browser, e.g. SeaMonkey, or Firefox. Miranda NG mIRC Note: There is a U3 version of mIRC that can be installed on U3 drives. The original application is portable, leaving behind only the license key in the registry. (This may not be true with the newer versions that are Vista-compatible, as their default user data area was changed to the user's application data folder.) Since v3.1, it can be started from a command line using the -portable switch to use settings, DLLs, and license keys that are stored in the same folder as mirc.exe. Nettalk Pidgin (formerly Gaim) Opera (Integrated Irc client) HexChat Portable X-Chat Aqua – for Mac OS X

RSS, Atom readers RSSOwl (needs Java runtime environment) Opera (Integrated RSS/Atom client)

Telnet, SSH clients portaPuTTY WinSCP Portable Edition – SFTP/SCP/FTP client, remote file manager, GUI

Podcast managers Juice

Anonymity/Anti-censorship Tor Browser Bundle

Local wikis EverNote TiddlyWiki DokuWiki

Miscellaneous Ahnenblatt multilingual Genealogy software Moka5 LivePC Engine (Portable VMware). Dynamically loads and unloads network drivers and requires administrator rights. Mojopac portable chopped down copy of windows. Requires administrator rights.

Multimedia

File converters Any Video Converter Audiograbber CDex fre:ac MediaCoder TMPGEnc

CD/DVD burning CDBurnerXP DVDStyler DeepBurner Portable Edition InfraRecorder Portable ImgBurn

Editors Portable Audacity – for Windows and Mac OS X mp3DirectCut GoldWave VirtualDub

Audio/MIDI sequencer Reaper has a .bat file for a USB stick installation

Players RealPlayer FLV player Media Player Classic foobar2000 – only supports xp and forward MPlayer SMPlayer (7zip version) Songbird K-Multimedia Player (zip version) The Core Pocket Media Player VLC Media Player Winamp

Recorders Streamripper

Video capture VirtualDub

Video repair Stellar Phoenix Video Repair

Networking

HTTP servers Node.js XAMPP

Miscellaneous Netcat Proxomitron – Filtering Web Proxy Xming Wireshark

Remote desktop AnyDesk RealVNC TeamViewer TightVNC UltraVNC

Other tools

Web editors Portable Nvu and KompoZer – for Mac OS X and Windows. OpenOffice.org Portable – Complete office suite, which includes HTML editor. SeaMonkey

Calendar management Portable Sunbird – for Mac OS X, and Windows Portable iCal – for Mac OS X

File management Directory Opus by selecting the USB/U3 export option Servant Salamander 1.52 Total Commander X-file X-file for Windows 98SE/2K or later XYplorer

File archivers/extractors 7-Zip Filzip PeaZip, for BSD, Linux and Windows WinRAR, Portable version for Windows, still requires having a license for a regular version of WinRAR. The version number for WinRAR Unplugged is 3.8.0.1, while the latest WinRAR for Windows version is 4.11

PDF tools

Readers Foxit Reader STDU Viewer Sumatra PDF PDF-XChange Viewer

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Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with List of portable software

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what List of portable software claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to List of portable software before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about List of portable software ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of List of portable software

In research: List of portable software appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses List of portable software in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: List of portable software is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics Lists of software, Portable software, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for List of portable software outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study List of portable software in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what List of portable software means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain List of portable software out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is List of portable software in simple terms?

Why does List of portable software matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study List of portable software?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

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It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on List of portable software.