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Portable applications are small, light applications which don’t have to be downloaded nor installed in your computer. As a matter of fact, they can be put on any USB flash drive (USB dongle) to use them wherever you go and on whatever computer you use! Here is a huge list of the most important and well known applications turned into portable apps!

Accessibility

• Firefox Accessibility Extension – Make Firefox more accessible
• On-Screen Keyboard Portable – Easily access an on-screen keyboard
• Virtual Magnifying Glass Portable – A full-featured screen magnifier

Development

• Notepad++ Portable – A full-featured text editor with syntax highlighting
• Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – The easy-to-use Nvu web editor
• XAMPP – Apache, mySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin, etc in one package

Education

• Stellarium Portable – portable planetarium

Games

• DOSBox Portable – classic DOS games to go
• Jooleem Portable – simple and addictive puzzle game with great music and visuals
• LBreakout2 Portable – breakout-style arcade game similar to Arkanoid
• Mines-Perfect Portable – a classic hunt-for-mines game with advanced features
• PokerTH Portable – classic Texas Hold Em style poker at its best
• Sudoku Portable – the wildly popular and addictive puzzle game

Graphics & Pictures

• GIMP Portable – Photo and Image Editor

Internet

• FileZilla Portable – the full-featured FTP client
• FireFTP Extension (for Firefox) – a lightweight extension
• Miranda IM Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in a customizable interface
• Mozilla Firefox, Portable Edition – the award-winning web browser that’s safe and secure
• Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition – the handy email client
• Nvu Portable & KompoZer Portable – the easy-to-use webpage editor
• Pidgin Portable – chat with AOL, MSN and Yahoo users in an easy-to-use interface
• PuTTY Portable – lightweight telnet and SSH client
• Sage Extension (for Firefox) – A full-featured RSS extension
• WinSCP Portable – SFTP, FTP and SCP client

Music & Video

• Audacity Portable – A simple audio editor and recorder
• BonkEnc Portable – extract, convert, and encode audio
• CoolPlayer+ Portable – Lightweight, fast, easy-to-use audio player
• MPlayer Portable – Full-featured movie player with support for most video formats
• VirtualDub Portable – video processing and capture utility
• VLC Media Player Portable – An easy to use media player that plays most audio and video formats

Office

• AbiWord Portable – a lightweight word processor compatible with Microsoft Word files
• GnuCash Portable – accounting, expenses and financial management
• Lightning Extension (for Thunderbird) – A lightweight extension for your calendar and tasks
• Mozilla Sunbird, Portable Edition – Calendar and task management with a familiar interface
• Mozilla Thunderbird, Portable Edition (Address Book) – Email client’s built-in address book with import/export functions
• OpenOffice.org Portable – word processor, spreadsheet, presentations with Microsoft compatibility
• PDFTK Builder Portable – split, collate, watermark and password protect PDF documents
• PNotes Portable – stick notes to go
• SpeedCrunch Portable – an intuitive algebraic calculator
• Sumatra PDF Portable – a lightweight PDF viewer
• Task Coach Portable – to do list and task manager

Operating Systems

• Mac-on-Stick – Run Mac OS Classic 7 portably

Utilities

• 7-Zip Portable – File archiver and compressor
• ClamWin Portable – Antivirus on the go
• Command Prompt Portable – Simple link to a customizable command prompt
• Eraser Portable – securely delete files and data
• InfraRecorder Portable – full-featured CD and DVD burner
• JkDefrag Portable – Disk defragmentation and optimization
• KeePass Password Safe Portable – Secure, easy-to-use password manager
• Lightscreen Portable – easy to use screenshot tool
• PeaZip Portable – Easy to use file archiver and compressor
• PortableApps.com Backup – integrated backup utility bundled with the platform
• PortableApps.com Menu – integrated start menu bundled with the platform
• Toucan – backup, sync and encrypt for advanced users
• WinDirStat Portable – disk usage analyzer and cleanup tool
• winMd5Sum Portable – check md5 sums to verify files on the go
• WinMerge Portable – file comparison and merging