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Pidgin Portable 2.6.6 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 latest version. Improved installers for Pidgin-Encryption and Pidgin-OTR have also been released. 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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PortableApps.com and OpenSourceHipHop.org are proud to announce a launch party this evening at Sputnik Bar in Brooklyn, NY to launch the upcoming PortableApps.com Music Production Suite. At the party, there will be performances by:

Bonita Applebum - the1shanti and Shefali are next generation Native Tongues continuing on with the Love Movement

Heavy Pennies - NYC's next huge singer/songwriter

45 Shootout - Live band dance hall wonderfulness

ElekTro4 and DJ Alias will be spinning tunes the rest of the night.

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AbiWord Portable 2.8.2 has been released. AbiWord Portable is the lightweight AbiWord word processor packaged as a portable app, so you can edit your documents on the go. This new release updates AbiWord to the latest release. 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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PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of multiple profile support for Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition, Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition and Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition. Secondary profiles allow you to have another complete set of settings (bookmarks, emails, calendars, preferences, etc) for each portable app. It's great for sharing your flash drive with someone else, development and testing extensions or separating work/school stuff and personal stuff. The secondary launchers work with all versions and all languages and are available from the portable apps' support pages today. And, as always, they are open source and completely free.

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SpyDLLRemover Portable 3.2 has been released. SpyDLLRemover is the standalone tool to effectively detect and delete spywares from the system. It comes with advanced spyware scanner which quickly discovers hidden Rootkit processes as well suspcious/injected DLLs within all running processes. This release updates to the latest version. All users are encouraged to upgrade. It's packaged as a portable app so you can scan computers on the go and it's in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Suite. It's released as freeware for personal and business use.

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PortableApps.com has released Atomic Tanks Portable 4.3. Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can play wherever you'd like. This release updates Atomic Tanks 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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PortableApps.com developer Steve Lamerton will be representing us at FOSDEM 2010 in Brussels on February 6th and 7th. He'll be giving a Lightning Talk on the PortableApps.com Platform on Saturday. You may be most familiar with Steve as the developer behind our popular Toucan backup, sync and encryption utility. Hopefully, you can drop in on Steve's lightning talk Saturday morning. If not, keep an eye out for a red PortableApps.com polo and say hi.

Task Coach Portable 0.78.3 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 and is packaged directly by the Task Coach development team. 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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PortableApps.com has released the PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4, making it easier than ever to carry your favorite software with you. This test release is an update of the 2.0 Beta 3 release with the new enhancements from 1.6 included. From 1.6, the latest feature is theme switching and a system tray icon fix. And, as always, it's all open source and completely free.

The PortableApps.com Suite 2.0 Beta 4 release is available for user to test from the beta forum release announcement. Please post testing-related comments there.

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PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Dia Portable 0.97. Dia is a diagramming program roughly inspired by the commercial Windows program Visio, though more geared towards informal diagrams for casual use. It can be used to draw many different kinds of diagrams and has special objects to help draw entity relationship diagrams, UML diagrams, flowcharts, network diagrams, and many other diagrams. It's packaged as a portable app, so you can do your technical drawing wherever you are. This release updates Dia 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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