TechSnack.net » Portable Apps http://www.techsnack.net Technology, tutorial, computer tips, downloads, web 2.0 Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:04:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 RunMe- Portable application launcher for Windows http://www.techsnack.net/runme-portable-application-launcher-for-windows http://www.techsnack.net/runme-portable-application-launcher-for-windows#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:40:00 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=1045 I cover XWindows Dock yesterday, and i would like to introduce another portable application which performs similar task. It is called RunMe. The application was being published quite some time ago, but i just discovered it today, and i decide to write about it, since it is really worth us to have a look.

RunMe - Portable application launcher for windows

RunMe - Portable application launcher for windows

To some of the users, RunMe may be a simple utilities to launch their favorite application. But for advanced users, RunMe may become a replacement tool for their Windows Start Menu(you can configure this through the Settings option).

Users can add any program to the launcher by dragging and dropping the shortcut into it. There are a lot of settings that you can change. for example, you can change the look of RunMe from the preinstalled 15 themes, the dock position of the launcher, the effects, and much more.

RunMe is a portable application, which mean you can always carry it with your USB pendrive. All settings are saved in a XML file. If you like an application launcher with docking support, make sure you look into this application!

Note: This application support Windows XP, Vista, and Windows 7 as well.

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/runme-portable-application-launcher-for-windows/feed 3 SharpKeys – A free keyboard keys replacement tool http://www.techsnack.net/sharpkeys-a-free-keyboard-keys-replacement-tool http://www.techsnack.net/sharpkeys-a-free-keyboard-keys-replacement-tool#comments Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:43:58 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=1007 What happen if some your your keyboard keys stop working? Will you use on-screen keyword that comes with your system? Or you will buy a new keyboard? I am sure most of us will choose the second option.

Now, SharpKeys comes and may help us. It can remap one key to another key by storing the mapping to the registry.

SharpKeys - A free keyboard keys replacement tool

SharpKeys is actually a portable application writtien in C# using .NET 2.0. So, you need to install Microsoft .NET 2.0 and above before you can enjoy this utilities.

So, how does SharpKeys help us in terms of a keyboard keys replacement tool? Simple launch the application, and click “Add” to add a key mapping entry. Then, choose which key you are going to map with, and press “Write To Registry” once you done everything. You may need to log off or reboot your PC so that the key mapping take effect.

Let’s summarize what SharpKeys can do for you and what SharpKeys cannot do:

SharpKeys will

  1. Remap one key to a single key. For example, remap “Shift” to “Caps Lock”.
  2. Remap multiple keys to a single key. For example, remap all keys to “A”.

SharpKeys won’t

  1. Swap keys.
  2. Map multiple key presses to one key.
  3. Map mouse click to key.

Please note that SharpKeys key mapping will affect the other users as well. So if you are using a public computer, or share a computer with others, make sure you get permission or inform them before you use the application.

Download: SharpKeys

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/sharpkeys-a-free-keyboard-keys-replacement-tool/feed 3 Server2Go – Bring your Apache Server Anywhere http://www.techsnack.net/server2go-bring-your-apache-server-anywhere http://www.techsnack.net/server2go-bring-your-apache-server-anywhere#comments Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:21:29 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=982 Server2Go is a self configurable WAMPP stack which can be nurned into your CD-ROM or copy into USB pendrive. It require no configuration and can be run on write-protected me dia such as CD-ROM.

There are many examples of its possible useses such as catalogue software, calculation programmes, image campaigns (CMS-based), computer based training lessons or other applicatons.

Main features:

  • Free! No royalties
  • Complete WAMPP Server-Stack
  • Runs directly from CD-ROM, USB Stick or Hard disk without installation
  • Full featured webserver (based on apache)
  • PHP 5.x support with many extensions installed (e.g. gd)
  • Supports SQLite databases
  • Runs on all versions of Windows from Win 98 and above, MAC OSX support is coming
  • Support for MySQL 5 Databases
  • Supports many PHP extensions (GD-Lib, PDO…) by default
  • Support for Perl 5.8

Download: Server2Go

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/server2go-bring-your-apache-server-anywhere/feed 1 Chaos Generator – Best tool to generate random password http://www.techsnack.net/chaos-generator-best-tool-to-generate-random-password http://www.techsnack.net/chaos-generator-best-tool-to-generate-random-password#comments Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:17:00 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=854 Chaos generator is a good tool for us to generate random password. Users can set different options, and generate different length’s password easily.

As shown in the screenshot, you can check or uncheck the upper letters, lower letters, numbers, and include special symbols or not. For special symbols, you can add your own symbols or remove the unecessary one.

The quantity box allow you to set the number of random passwords that you want to generate, while the length box let you to set the length of random passwords. You can even save the generated passwords in text file by pressing the “Save” button.

Beside using it as a password generator, you can also use it as an activation code generator, member card ID generator, or coupon code generator. How you going to use it is depands on your imagination.

Tips: If you want to bring along this application with your USB flash drive, simply go to your Program Files\SafeSoft\Chaos Generator, and copy ChaosGen.exe to your USB flash drive.

download from soft32.com | download from MediaFire

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/chaos-generator-best-tool-to-generate-random-password/feed 4 Visual Subst – Virtual drives for folders http://www.techsnack.net/visual-subst-virtual-drives-for-folders http://www.techsnack.net/visual-subst-virtual-drives-for-folders#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:21:30 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=834 Visual Subst is a portable applications which can create virtual drives for any folders. Users may create virtual drives for folders which need to access frequently.

Some users may doubt, why we want to use this application while we can simply create a shortcut link at our desktop? This seems to be right. But when you open a “Open File Dialog” or “save file Dialog”, these shortcuts will not appear, while Virtual Drives will appear. Furthermore, you can access these Virtual Drives in “My computer”

To create a Virtual Drive, simply provide the directory path and choose the drive letter. After that, press the save button to save your settings. There is an option for you to apply virtual drives on Windows startup also.

download Virtual Subst | download from MediaFire

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/visual-subst-virtual-drives-for-folders/feed 1 Extract any icons from files easily with IconExtract http://www.techsnack.net/extract-any-icons-from-files-easily-with-iconextract http://www.techsnack.net/extract-any-icons-from-files-easily-with-iconextract#comments Sun, 27 Jul 2008 12:04:54 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=828 IconExtract is able to extract any icons/cursors from files. It is able to scan and extract icons from exe, dll, ocx, and cpl file types.

What will you do when you saw an interesting icon or cursor from a file? You probably want to grab the image, but how to grab it?

This free utilities from nirsoft.net will helps you to scan and extract any icon or cursor from the given file. Simply launch the application, drag and drop the file to it, and the application will scans and shows you the icons and cursors in the files.

You may right-click and choose to save the icon to a file (.ico format), or you may select copy to clipboard. After copy to your clipboard, you may use your favorite image editor software to edit and save in your desired format.

This is a portable application. So you can always bring it along with your USB flash drive.

download IconExtract | download from MediaFire

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/extract-any-icons-from-files-easily-with-iconextract/feed 1 View all USB devices on your computer through USBDeview http://www.techsnack.net/view-all-usb-devices-on-your-computer-through-usbdeview http://www.techsnack.net/view-all-usb-devices-on-your-computer-through-usbdeview#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:03:34 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=822 USBDeview is a free utility which can list out all USB devices that currently and previously connected to your computer.

By using this utility, you can get more information on USB devices that connected to your computer. For example, you can get information about the device name, description, device type, serial number, last plug/unplug date, and much more.

For devices that currently connect to your computer, the icon’s color will turn green. For example, device Port_#0003.Hub_#0001 is currenlt connect to my computer, which is my mouse.

This utility is able to remove unwanted devices driver from your computer. It is a good utility especially you want to uninstall unused devices from your computer or you want to do a clean installation for the driver.

download USBDeview | download from MediaFire

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/view-all-usb-devices-on-your-computer-through-usbdeview/feed 2 Search for free portable apps at app-stick.com http://www.techsnack.net/search-for-free-portable-apps-at-app-stickcom http://www.techsnack.net/search-for-free-portable-apps-at-app-stickcom#comments Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:07:38 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=820 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.

app-stick.com

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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/search-for-free-portable-apps-at-app-stickcom/feed 4 Write protect your USB drive to protect it from virus http://www.techsnack.net/write-protect-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-virus http://www.techsnack.net/write-protect-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-virus#comments Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:06:58 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=818 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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]]> http://www.techsnack.net/write-protect-your-usb-drive-to-protect-it-from-virus/feed 12 Instantly logoff, reboot and shut down your computer through tray icon http://www.techsnack.net/instantly-logoff-reboot-and-shut-down-your-computer-through-tray-icon http://www.techsnack.net/instantly-logoff-reboot-and-shut-down-your-computer-through-tray-icon#comments Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:53:11 +0000 Dickey http://www.techsnack.net/?p=814 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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