Beta Testing

NOTE: Stable over here. The features in 1.5a2 have been finalized in 1.3+ (except for Glass), so the 1.5 Alphas are dead. I'll be going from 1.4 to 1.5 from there, and 1.4.x in between. 1.3.x if any bugs are found.

Application: General Launcher (note: there is no website for this app as of 2010-02-18)
Category: Utilities
Description: General Launcher is a simple, INI-based, way to launch multiple programs. It's especially useful for autorunning apps from a USB drive, since autorun.inf only supports launching a single app.

Download General Launcher Portable 0.5 Development Test 1 [397 KB download / 287 KB installed]

Application: Second Life
Category: Communication
Description: The Second Life client allows you to connect and interact with the Second Life grid, the most popular a virtual world.

I simply made an online installer using PortableApps.comLauncher and the PortableApps.comInstaller. All they do is move the Application Data in and out of the portable adds data directory. This is my first attempt at this launcher.

Application: AnonyMail It!
Category: Utilities
Website: Shadow Slash Teknologies

Application: PChat
Category: Internet
Description: PChat is free fork of XChat for windows, has all the same features as xchat but minus the shareware components usually found in the official XChat distribution for Windows.
Settings are automatically saved to Data\Settings (also supports custom icons in App\PChat\icons and also plugins can be added at App\PChat\Plugins)

Application: Armagetron Advanced
Category: Games
Description: Armagetron is a multiplayer game in 3d that attempts to emulate and expand on the lightcycle sequence from the movie Tron. It's an old school arcade game slung into the 21st century. Highlights include a customizable playing arena, HUD, unique graphics, and AI bots. For the more advanced player there are new game modes and a wide variety of physics settings to tweak as well.

Application: NVDA
Category: Accessibility
Description: Providing feedback via synthetic speech and Braille, NVDA allows blind and vision impaired people to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third party applications.

Download NVDA Portable 2009.1 Development Test 1 [10.6MB download / 41.2MB installed]

Application: NoteCase
Category: Office

Description:
NoteCase is a hierarchical note manager (aka. outliner). It helps you organize your everyday text notes into a single document, with individual notes placed in the tree-like structure (each note can have its sub-notes, ...). To ensure your privacy, encrypted document format is supported, along with standard unencrypted format. Project is free and open source (released under BSD license).

Application: Process Explorer
Category: Utilities

Description:
Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

Application: Thunder Screen Reader
Category: Accessibility
Description: Thunder is an award-winning free screenreader talking software for people with little or no sight.

Download Thunder Portable 1.0.0.49 Development Test 1 [5.59MB download / 30.6MB installed]

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