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7-Zip Portable 4.57

Freeware

You can take your file archiver with you and work with your compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more on the go. This release updates the bundled 7-Zip, features an improved launcher and installer and digital signatures to ensure integrity.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista

Firefox 3.0.4 Portable

Freeware

Mozilla Firefox Portable edition is a transportable version of the popular web browser. You could æinstallÆ this to an external USB key and then take this USB key with you, connect to a computer, then use Firefox Portable without leaving any trace of your web use on their machine.

Requires: Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista

OpenOffice Portable 2.4.1

Freeware

OpenOffice is a fully fledged office application suite, complete with a word processor, spreadsheet and presentation graphics program. This is the portable edition of OpenOffice, so you can take your suite on the road.

Requires: Windows NT, 2000, XP or Vista

Audacity Portable 1.2.6

Freeware

This is the portable version of the popular audio editor. Designed so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD.

Requires: Windows NT, 2000 or XP

KeePass 1.14

Freeware

KeePass is a password manager, or safe, which will enable you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key-disk. You only have to remember one single master password or insert the key-disk to unlock the whole database.

Requires: Windows 98SE, NT, 2000, XP or Vista

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.13

Freeware

Multi-protocol instant messenger client for Windows. Miranda IM uses very little memory and is extremely fast. It supports MSN, Jabber, Yahoo and more. Functionality can be greatly enhanced with an extensive set of plugins as well.

Requires: Windows 2000, XP or Vista