Beta Testing

Application: Keryx
Category: Utility
Description: Keryx is a tool for users with dialup, or low-bandwidth internet to be able to download and update packages on their Debian based distribution of Linux including .

Download Keryx Portable 0.92 Dev Test 1 [4.7 MB download / 15.7 MB installed]
(MD5: ea5e8b88ecb3e49c6ca75532c14392f7)

Release Notes:
Dev Test 1 (2009-02-21):

Application: Task Coach
Category: Office
Description: Task Coach is an a feature rich and easy-to-use task manager to manage a wide variety of tasks. With Task Coach you can set start and completion dates, create a budget for a task, add attachments, and even print off your tasks in a very easily readable form.

Application: FreeFileSync
Category: Utilities
Description: FreeFileSync is an Open-Source folder comparison and synchronization tool. It is used for fast and easy configurable sync operations between two folders without restricted or overloaded UI interfaces.

Download FreeFileSync Portable 1.16.0.0 Development Test 2 [1.7MB download / 2.03MB installed]

Application: Maxima
Category: Education
Description: Maxima is a computer algebra system. It can do numerical and symbolic mathematics. This is packaged with wxMaxima, creating a convenient GUI interface to Maxima proper. This PortableApp is based on the Maxima version 5.17.1.

Download Maxima Portable 5.17.1.0 [25MB download / 130MB installed]
(MD5: e3c47223b34b0064e11182da8085971b)

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS YET!!!

Application: AkelPad
Category: Development
Description: AkelPad Portable is a simple text editor which has extremely custumizable features.

Mirror 1 (AkelPad Portable [629 KB download / 2.3 MB installed]
(MD5: 6d152e5388c22658676db90125ea4300)

This now an official release.

Application: Assault Cube
Category: Games
Description: AssaultCube, formerly ActionCube, is a free first-person-shooter based on the game Cube. It is set in a realistic looking environment, as far as that's possible with this engine, while gameplay stays fast and arcade. This game is all about team oriented multiplayer fun.

New thread could be found here.

Application: MuseScore
Category: Education
Description: MuseScore Portable is a free portable music notation program
Features: (from the homepage)

• WYSIWYG, notes are entered on a "virtual note sheet"
• Unlimited number of staves
• Up to four voices per staff

Just placing the Picasa 3 Portable beta where it belongs. I inadvertently ended-up starting an unrelated thread under Lazarus Portable. (sorry Mods, I won't make it a habit.)

So here we go... Picasa 3 Portable Beta can be downloaded from...
http://www.eightminds.com/archives/24

Picasa is a closed-sourse application by Google then manages, organizes and allows you to edit images on your PC in digital albums.

Application: DeskSkin Portable (De-supported)
Category: Utilities
Description: DeskSkin Portable is a Windows desktop overlay that is specifically designed to work with John T Haller's PortableApps Platform.

Application: LiteStep Portable
Category: Other
Description: LiteStep is an alternative WIN32 shell that completely replaces the traditional explorer shell, allowing users to completely customize the look and feel of their desktop.
The portable version allows you to bring all of this with you, and also bring your desktop, including icons, with you.
Please look at the tutorial in \App\Litestep\Tutorial\Tutorial.exe, or by typing "tutorial" in the runbar