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Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 2.0.0.19 Revision 2 Released

John T. Haller — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 21:06:38 +0000

Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition 2.0.0.19 Revision 2 has been released in English, Italian, German, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the popular Mozilla Thunderbird email client bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app. This release updates Mozilla Thunderbird to 2.0.0.19 and has an improved launcher and installer which now correctly handle mimtype associations and remove invalid settings. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Note: The original 2.0.0.19 installer contained a debug message that could confuse some users. This was removed and the release was reposted as Revision 2.

Task Coach Portable 0.71.5 Released

Patrick Patience — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 22:37:28 +0000

Task Coach Portable 0.71.5 has been released. Task Coach Portable is the popular Task Coach packaged as a portable app so you bring your to-do list and task manager with you so you always stay on top of things. This new release updates Task Coach to the latest release. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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BonkEnc Portable 1.0.10 Released

Patrick Patience — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 21:17:38 +0000

BonkEnc Portable 1.0.10 has been released as a multilingual package. BonkEnc Portable is the popular BonkEnc packaged as a portable app, so you extract, convert, and encode your audio files just about anywhere you go. This release updates BonkEnc to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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VirtualDub Portable 1.8.7 Released

John T. Haller — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:57:17 +0000

VirtualDub Portable 1.8.7 has been released. VirtualDub is a video processing and capture utility with batch processing capabilities. This new release updates VirtualDub to the latest version. The VirtualDub Portable Plugins Pack with support for AC3, FLIC, MPEG2 and WMV has also been updated. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy use from any portable device and integration with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Pidgin Portable 2.5.3 Released

John T. Haller — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 05:29:28 +0000

Pidgin Portable 2.5.3 has been released. Pidgin Portable is a versatile instant messaging client packaged as a portable app, so you can take your IM settings and buddy lists with you. It has all the same great features as Pidgin, including support for AOL, Yahoo, MSN, ICQ and Jabber networks, but there's nothing to install on the local PC. This new release updates Pidgin to the current 2.5.3 release and has an updated launcher. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 2 Released

John T. Haller — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:43:37 +0000

Mozilla Firefox®, Portable Edition 3.1 Beta 2 has been released in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese. It's the latest test release of the upcoming Mozilla Firefox 3 web browser bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. It's also a great way to test out all the new features of 3.1 without affecting your existing Firefox installation. This new release updates Firefox to 3.1 Beta 2 and has an updated launcher and installer. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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GnuCash Portable 2.2.8 Released

Shawn Faucher — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:06:37 +0000

GnuCash Portable 2.2.8 has been released as a multilingual package. GnuCash Portable is an open source financial management application packaged as a portable app, so you can take your financial data with you. It has all the same great features as most commercial money management programs and more. This release updates GnuCash to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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BPBible Portable 0.4 Released

Chris Morgan — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:53:41 +0000

BPBible Portable 0.4 has been released. It's a Bible study tool packaged with a PortableApps.com Launcher as a portable app, so you can take your Bibles with you on the go. It has all the same great features as BPBible including support Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, Gospel harmonies and more, but there's nothing to install. This release updates BPBible to the latest version. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 2.0.0.20 Released

John T. Haller — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 15:17:53 +0000

Mozilla Firefox_®, Portable Edition 2.0.0.20 has been released in English, German, French, Italian, Japanese and Simplified Chinese packages. It's the legacy 2.0 version of the popular Mozilla Firefox bundled with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app, so you can take your browser, bookmarks, settings and extensions on the go. This release updates Firefox to 2.0.0.20. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

NOTE: This is the last planned release of Firefox 2. All users are encouraged to upgrade to Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition 3. Firefox 2.0.0.20 does not include Phishing Protection.

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VLC Media Player Portable 0.9.8a Released

John T. Haller — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 21:18:46 +0000

VLC Media Player Portable 0.9.8a has been released. VLC Portable is the popular VLC media player packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio and video files along with everything you need to play them on the go. This release updates VLC to the latest version and has an updated launcher. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. And it's open source and completely free.

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