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Notepad2 is a small and fast text editor with syntax highlighting for HTML and other common languages. It supports modeless find and replace dialogs, multi-line find and replace operations (using backslash expressions), optional file change notification, etc.

FontNet Explorer lets you browse all relevant font sites and font search engines. Enter font name you want to find and every explored site will be displayed in new tab. Includes the ability to stop or skip a particular site during the search process.

The list of font sites is open and the author encourages suggestions.

Sculptris is a 3D sculpting program similar to Z-Brush. It was produced by the developers of Z-Brush (Pixologic) and Thomas Pettersson.

Opera Settings Import and Export Tool allows backup and restore of bookmarks, mail, contacts, sessions, preferences, etc. and enables easy transfer of them between Opera installations in different folders or operating systems.

The program can find all profiles on your system, useful when searching for "lost" profiles, and then allows preview before importing or exporting. Additionally you can cleanly transfer individual settings and store settings files in their original state so exported settings can always be manually restored.

Also available for Linux.

NOTE: site offline; linking to archive.org and softpedia.

removableTrezor creates an encrypted data store (a so-called vault or trezor). These password protected stores may be stored in several places (located on several discs, or even several computers). It is a one-user application, and may only be run from one single computer.

Note: Main site is offline -- looking for site mirrors.

1D Stock Cutter (1DSC) is the length cutting optimizer - fast, powerful, compact and easy to use software tool to optimize cutting to length of any linear (one-dimensional) material: profiles, bars, extrusions, pipes, tubes, channels, angles, rods, lineal wood boards, beams, lumber, and so on. The freeware version has limits on the number of pieces and stock types.

- customizable optimization goal
- customizable cutting/technology settings
- support for stock material inventory
- support for part order/reference lists
- automatic update of the inventory lists
- data import and export in many formats
- Metric and Imperial length/size units

MoveOut uses rules to move files from the desktop to a subfolder, based on file type, part of a file name, or whatever. Have it ask to replace existing files, or rename them. It can also ignore files.

Written in AutoHotkey.

SCR is a simple tool to search and replace text (without formatting) in a directory of documents. The program supports previewing, case-sensitivity and various search options. The program also supports changing text within file names. Tested successfully with Word 2003 DOC files.

Select "Don't make any changes" to preview changes.

Warning: the program creates "Replace with SCR" option every time you right-click on an item in Explorer and may not be considered portable.

Universal Extractor allows you to extract files from a wide variety of archive files, including ZIP, ARJ, LZH, as well as MSI and EXE files created using various installer packages (such as Nullsoft, Wise, Inno Setup, etc). Useful for testing apps for portability because you can extract files directly from installer packages without having to go through the installation process. Note that the original developer no longer updates the program so some manual updates may be required.

Alternatively, an unofficial version with the latest-and-greatest internals is available (on Lupo's PenSuite site).

Commercial use note: license restrictions are present on included files UHARC02.EXE and UHARC04.EXE, but can be deleted without dramatic impact on the software. See website for more information.