app-stick.com is a website which collect a lot of useful portable applications. For example, you can get your portable Firefox, portable 7-zip, and portable Skype over there.

Nowadays, USB flash drive is a must have accessories for everybody. It is very common for everyone to have at least 2GB flash drive. So, why not install some portable applications to it?

Just go to app-stick.com, and you will get to know some free portable applications. In their main page, they listed out some of the popular applications such as Skype, Firefox, and Open Office. You can click and view portable applications of different category by clicking the link at your left hand side.

app-stick.com will not host any files. All the link will point you to the original website that host the application. Beside this, they provide a brief description for all applications, which is a good feature for those who don’t know about the applications.

I recommend users to download some System utilities to your flash drive. It may help you to solve some system problems. For example, you may download Avira Antivirus, “Autoruns” to detect any applications that run at startup.

Spent some times and you will find some useful applications there.

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USB Write Protector is a portable utilities which can write-protect your USB flash drive so that virus/spyware can’t copy itself to the drive.

The main cause of viruses are USB flash drive. These viruses tend to copy themselves to the flash drive whenever system detected new device plug in. I still remember there are some old USB drives that come with write protect feature. But unfortunately most of the new flash drive don’t come with such feature, maybe the manufacturers want to cut down the cost?

So, the only way to protect our USB flash drive is enable the write protect through our own PC. With USB Write Protector, you can turn on/off the write protect to a USB flash drive.

Open this application before you plug any flash drive into your computer. After you turn on the write protection, you will not be able to write any files to the flash drive, or delete any files from it. You must always unplug and plug your flash drive if you want to turn on/off the write protection.

Note: This utilities will not write any files to your flash drive, it just make sure your flash drive is write protected in this cumputer only. So, when you plug the flash drive into another PC, your flash drive may still infacted by viruses. So, the beast way to protect your flash drive is to install this application to all computers that you may use.

download USB Write Protector | download from MediaFire

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Downloading YouTube movie has never been so easy. TubeZoid let users replace “youtube” with “tubezoid” so that they can download the movie on the fly.

I had cover a lot of web services which let users download movie from YouTube and other movie sharing websites. Two of the most popular are Clip Nabber and Vixy.net. But TubeZoid provide an extra feature - just replace “youtube” with “tubezoid” in the URL and TubeZoid will convert the movie on the fly!

This feature let users easily convert and download youtube movie even faster. Currently, TubeZoid supports YouTube, Google Video, Break, Veoh, Dailymotion, Metacafe, and several adult movie sites.

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iPower is a utilities which will add a tray icon and let users to instantly logoff, reboot and shut down computer by double click it.

Since i installed Windows Vista, i feel that i don’t really like the Vista Lock buttons feature. I always hope that i can replace the lock and save session button with reboot and shutdown button. As i feel that i seldom lock my computer or save the session.

Finally i found iPower, which add a tray icon so that i can quickly shutdown or reboot my PC (although i have another application which can shutdown my PC within few seconds, but this utilities allow Windows to gives any warning for unsaved application.)

iPower is a portable application. Upon launch, you may right-click the tray icon to choose either “Logoff, reboot or shutdown”. The default is “Shut down”. When you double click the tray icon, magic happen. Your computer will immediately logoff, reboot or shut down depands on what you choose.

I like to restart my PC from times to times, so i had set the double-click to “Reboot”. What about you?

download iPower | download from MediaFire

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Hawkeye Font Browser is a free utilities which able to list all installed fonts on your computer.

Sometimes you may want to know your computer’s installed fonts and may also wish to see the font’s render in different size or color. We may use Microsoft Word to help us, but we still need to choose them one by one in order to view result from different font type.

Hawkeye Font Browser makes viewing fonts easy. Once you launch the application, you can type some text and press the “Redraw Font List” button, so that the Font List will repaint and you can compare the results from different font type immediately.

For example, i type “You can type anything” and press the button. I can then get a list of text showing different font’s results. Click the result will show you the font type and larger display of the font render result.

This is a very handy utilities, especially you install a lot of fonts on your computer. It require .NET Framework 3.5 to run.

download Hawkeye Font Browser | download from MediaFire | download .NET Framework 3.5

Popularity: 8% [?]