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Visual Clipboard is a clipboard manager that stores your clipboard history and quick notes for pasting later. There is a pro version with more features but the free version is still useful even with its basic functionality. In addition to the no-install version, there is also a U3 version for use on...

Metapad has long been one of my favorite text editors. I just noticed there's a new version out, and one of the cool new features is full USB portability. Just create a blank file called metapad.ini in the application folder and it's ready to go.

http://liquidninja.com/metapad

3D Traceroute is a very handy tool that's loaded with essential network utilities. Its most notable feature is plotting traceroutes as a rotatable, zoomable 3-D graph. It also has a built-in network scanner, pinger, telnet client, connection viewer, atomic clock synchroniser, name server lookup and ...

A program that watches your mouse... sounds like a severe case of spyware!

No, this is a cute little app. I added it to my ever-growing collection of pointless programs on my USB key drive. You gotta have at least several dozen of those.

M

This is awesome! I've been looking for something like this to post tweets to Twitter without a web browser but without any messy installation. This one's a keeper.

Mike

Classic99 is a freeware TI 99/4A emulator that runs right of the box. System ROMs are included along with some games and applications that once ran from cartridges but can now be easily picked from the emulator's menu. I grew up with a TI 99/4A computer and Classic99 really brings back memories of s...

Kaeru Jump is a very small Japanese puzzle game (only 752KB) with beautiful graphics and original gameplay. The object of Kaeru Jump is to steer the frog using the arrow keys to clear the blocks in each of the 20 levels. As the frog jumps from one block to the next, the blocks disappear, so there's ...

Virtual Merlin is a simulation of the hand held electronic game from Parker Brothers that came out back in 1978. I actually had one of these when I was a kid. It plays Tic Tac Toe, Black Jack, Magic Square in addition to some other games. After installing Virtual Merlin and unzipping the updated fil...