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Portable Perl

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 11, 2006 - 3:50am

This would be useful fo all sorts of reasons.. many small and useful tasks could automated this way.

(There is a Windows port of Perl, but I am not aware if it can be run in a portable manner.. eg. in an arbitary part of the file tree.)

auto close and eject

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 9, 2006 - 6:53pm

for those of you who don't know auto hot key is an open source portable hotkey app but it also does scripts. think of all the times you have had to quickly exit your apps and eject your drive. If someone were able to program a script that did that it would be a great tool for appers everywhere ! the url is www.autohotkey.com make the world a better place!

Inkscape

Submitted by Trev on February 9, 2006 - 9:39am

Has anyone been looking at porting Inkscape to a portable app, since as we have GIMP as an open-source equivalent for Photoshop, Inkscape gives similar capabilities to Illustrator / Freehand for professional quality vector graphics.

In an ideal world, when Scribus (open source DTP) becomes stable under windows, then that's another possibility

More portable apps, just copy and run - and freeware :D -

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 7, 2006 - 8:07pm


Metapad (Notepad replacement) http://liquidninja.com/metapad/
Cool player (multi audio-format player) http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/
Essentialpim (Personal Information Manager) http://www.essentialpim.com/
Utorrent (Torrent manager) http://www.utorrent.com/
Miranda IM (Instant Messenger) http://www.miranda-im.org/
DropUpload (Upload files) http://www.rankspirit.com/downloadduleng.php
All for free! :D

VNC

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 7, 2006 - 2:17pm

Would it be possible to port a VNC application like RealVNC? If not the server then the viewer would be just as good. Smile

get proxy info

Submitted by samuel_uk on February 7, 2006 - 11:52am

I need a utility that can get the proxy settings from IE, right clicking is dissabled and so is the tools menu on out public library computers. FF needs the settings to load pages.

Portable Networking system?

Submitted by nm35 on February 6, 2006 - 8:30pm

At home I have a laptop and a desktop PC, and they're on a wireless network, as is so often the case. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to go through hell to set up filesharing properly.

I need something that can run off my USB drive (it's ok if it isn't portable, I'll just make a BAT registry wrapper) that will automagically configure my laptop and my desktop to connect to each other and to share a specific folder of my choosing (e.g., C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Desktop\Share) on the home network, without opening security holes.

Any thoughts?

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