Sumatra PDF Viewer – Lightweight and Open Source

By Martin Kaba • Sep 16th, 2008 • Filed under: Open-Source

Windows only: Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, quick loading PDF viewer, that can be downloaded as a single executable file for Windows. Unlike the heavy, resource consuming Adobe Reader(with the boring update bug), Sumatra takes less than 2 seconds to launch.
Don’t let its minimalistic design fool you, it opens most PDF files and has […]

LightScreen Screenshot taker goes Portable

By Martin Kaba • Sep 8th, 2008 • Filed under: Linux Packages, Linux Tips and Tricks, Open-Source

Enrich your portable application collection with PortableApp’s new product, this is a the light-weight screenshot taker – LightScreen Portable 0.5. This Windows only portable tool, can be placed in any portable device, CDs, ipod, USB key and so on, and you can run it directly from your portable device, without any installation.
Lightscreen Portable is […]

Portable Chrome for your USB Drive

By Martin Kaba • Sep 4th, 2008 • Filed under: Browsers, Open-Source

A portable version of Google Chrome is has been made available for download by the German blogger Carsten. This portable version of Chrome can run directly from your USB Key, provided you have a Windows PC.
Like most portable applications, it needs no installation and places all your user settings into the same folder of your […]

Also Download the Portable Edition of Firefox 3

By Martin Kaba • Jun 18th, 2008 • Filed under: Browsers, Firefox

If you’ve seen this message “Thanks for choosing Firefox”, it means you’ve downloaded Firefox on one of your platforms. As Firefox 3 hits over 5 million downloads(at the time I wrote this post), the guys at PortableApps have also made Firefox 3 — portable and available for download. Move ahead, complete the Firefox 3 […]