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Mpg2Cut2 is a simple MPEG2 editor to join, append, merge, cut, or split a variety of mpeg file types. The program can handle very large files (64bit) captured from Digital Television broadcasts, including High Definition. Includes the ability to correct minor errors in the program stream like faulty aspect ratio, missing headers, or copy selected portions of a MPEG2 Program Stream.

Note that the program is not a MPEG4 (MP4) editor and MPEG1 is only partially supported. Supported extensions include .mpg, .mpv, .m2v, .vob, .m1v, .ts, .evo, .m2t, .pva, .mpeg.

Font Viewer quickly displays all the fonts installed on your system.

Dirhtml creates index.html files that list files in a folder (and optionally subfolders). With scripts, dirhtml can incorporate customizable HTML code to create unique web pages.

NexusImage is a simple, lightweight image viewer with basic edit functions including rotate, flip, and caption. The program dims your desktop when in focus, has easy scrolling with thumbnails, and includes includes Exif (metadata) viewer, smoothing mode, and more.

Supports most common image formats including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, WMF, JP2, and the various JPEG2000 image types.

PNotes is a light-weight, flexible, skinnable manager of virtual notes on your desktop. Features include screen docking, groups, auto-save/backup, encryption, settings for individual notes, transparency and scheduling.

Alternatively:

• PNotes Portable from PortableApps.com

RedEyes is a powerful host and network monitor designed for testing performance and availability of hosts connected to the LAN or Internet (workstations, servers, routers, etc) with an IP address, as well as services running on these devices that work with TCP and alert administrators in case of failure of these devices or services.

Underline is a simple and intuitive Reading Bar/Line Reader/Highlighter.

Languages: French and Italian

Note: Website is in Italian (translation available).

Hokrain is a lightweight, fast audio player that allows you to present tracks as waveforms to make file seeking easier. It is designed to be lightweight, fast, and compatible with most popular formats. The program is also built with keyboard controls in mind for quick, transparent controls.

Note: Website expired, switched to Softpedia.

Explorer++ is a multi-tab Windows Explorer replacement, featuring image preview, keyboard shortcuts, customizable user interface and advanced file operations (merging, splitting) etc.

Alternatively, Explorer++ Portable adjusts paths and automatically switches between 32 and 64 bit.

Secure Password Generator allows you to create random secure passwords. You can use lowercase, uppercase and special characters, numbers and user-defined characters. You can choose the length and the quantity of generated passwords and save them to a text file.

Note: Main site offline -- linking to archive.org and softpedia for the download.

DTC calculates both delay times in milliseconds and frequencymodulation values in Hertz for a given song tempo.

APNG Anime Maker is a program to create animated PNG files.

Note: Visiting the website and reading the "How To Use" section is recommended.

Mousinity creates an infinity effect for your cursor when it reaches the edges of your screen. For example if you go to the top of your screen, your mouse will appear on the bottom, right-to-left, etc. This is especially useful for large screens.

A 64-bit version is also available (within the folder).

Note: The program has no icon or taskbar item so when you want to close the application, run Mousinity again and select 'yes'. Website offline, linking to archive.org and Softpedia.

LookInMyPC generates a complete, comprehensive system profile that includes information on all installed hardware and software. Additionally it provides system diagnostic information such as details on running processes, installed services, startup programs, Windows updates and hot fixes, active network and Internet connections, TCP/IP port usage, event log detail, and much more. All this is provided in an easy to read, formatted report that you can view and print using your web browser.

Sh'elf is an on-demand window that functions just like your regular desktop, complete with drag-and-drop capability. Program supports relative (portable) paths for customizable image viewing, text editor, command shell, etc., as well as interface options such as stay-on-top and tray icon.

Good for alternate shells or quick access to another directory as an alternate desktop.

NOTE: Both 32 and 64-bit versions are contained in the download. Site offline, linking to softpedia and archive.org.

M3U Dropper creates, imports, and organizes playlist files that take selections from an audio/video collection and put them in an order of your choice. This is useful for example in creating a mix of songs or videos with a specific mood or purpose. As the name suggests, the program creates M3U files which are used in most software players (Winamp, Foobar, Songbird, etc.) and many hardware players (including the iPod). Can also output to and import from other playlist formats including M3U8, PLS, and WPL.

Although other programs can generate playlist files, M3U Dropper uses a more portable method of relative pathways.

MycView automatically displays a slide show of all the pictures of a given directory in full screen mode. Reads a variety of file formats including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, DIB, RLE, PNM, EMF, WMF, ICO, CUR file formats, as well as list LST files, SLD (XnView).

Other features:
- Automatic closing at the end of the slideshow with the parameter "/c"
- Display in a window or full screen with the key "f"
- Opening a new file with the keystrokes "Ctrl-O"
- Opening a new directory with the keystrokes "Ctrl-D".
- Number of loops defined with the parameter "/l"
- Number of seconds per image defined with the parameter "/s".
- Open the context menu with the Middle-click or "Ctrl-M"
- Change the background color with the option "/b"
- Automatic rotation with the exif information.
- Browse images with thumbnails

TyperTask is a powerful automation utility with a simple text-based interface. The program enables a variety of capabilities including automatic text replacement as you type, launch of web addresses and files via hotkeys, mouse events, window focus and more.

Note that first-time users should read the detailed instructions and examples of function definitions available under the Help menu.

NOTE: Program discontinued, linking to archive.org. Also available from PortableApps (thanks shnbwmn).

QIcon Changer is a small tool that allow you to patch the icon of any kind of application (including .exe and .scr), overwriting the previous icon resource with the new one you chose. Just drag an icon file (.ico) from your desktop then drop to the application layer then do the same process with your target application, drag an executable from your desktop then drop in the application layer then you can apply the modification and enjoy your new application icon.

Note: If the target application is compressed / packed it will not be able to patch the icon because most packer will make resource format invalid.

Universal Viewer can open many different formats including text, binary, rich text, images (including Photoshop), videos, audio, etc. Many office formats including PDF, DJVU, and MS Word / Excel. The program can open large text files, such as log files, very quickly and without eating memory.

ZSoft Uninstaller is a unique program removal program that does pre and post-install system analysis to provide a way to remove all changes made by an installed program. This is useful over provided uninstall tools or programs that search for traces left behind afterwards, although the program can run a search cleanup if you didn't do a pre-install check.

Additional system-cleaning tools include a temporary and empty folders cleaner, as well as a system start-up manager.

Languages: Chinese, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and more.

UUID Generator is a small program for generating UUIDs. A Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) is an identifier standard used in software construction, standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF) as part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE).

Note: Official website is offline -- linking to Softpedia download.

WinSize2 provides several window management tools in one. The program automatically re-sizes windows according to predefined sizes, saves and restores icon positions on the desktop that get moved during resolution changes, and even renames window titles or and can send an application predefined characters (e.g. some Tab characters to set the focus in the window to a special field).

The program stores individual window positions for unique resolution settings (e.g. larger screens settings may want larger sizes to fit the screen precisely).

Written in AutoHotkey.

GoPing is a graphical ping tool. It pings a host in multithreaded mode with specified packet size, timeout and interval (supports extremely low intervals - 20ms). Allows user to save and load collected data for future review.

Feewhee (Feel the Wheel) is a utility to enhance your mouse wheel with additional functions. With a single turn, you may resize windows or change the transparency.

File Splitter Lite is a small and fast program which allows you to split a copy of a large file into smaller segments. You may then easily transfer the segments to another computer and use File Splitter Lite or a self-joining batch script to reconstruct the original file.

Note: Main site offline, linking to MajorGeeks mirror (thanks Baas)

Park Cursor Aside moves the mouse cursor aside to a defined screen / active window position whenever you type on keyboard. This way your view of the input field is not blocked by the mouse cursor.

Right click on tray icon and select Settings, to define the parking position and other values.

PTray is a performance optimization and monitor tool that will display CPU usage in percentage and available physical memory in the 16x16 icon in system tray area.

When you click the icon, it will minimize the physical usage for all running processes by calling SetProcessWorkingSetSize() API function on them. You can also indicate the priority for some processes in ini file. Once these processes run, its priority will be adjusted.

Birthdays is a simple, straightforward app to help keep track of birthdays. Use the menu entries or toolbar buttons to add or delete birthdays. The checkboxes are there to track whether or not you have sent a gift or card to said person for that year.

Sleep Preventer prevents your computer from going to sleep, hibernate, dim the display or start the screensaver. Application runs in the system tray when closed. Toggle on/off by clicking the systray icon.

Application supports 32- and 64-bit OS.

ip2c (IP address to country) helps determine the country associated with a specific address by querying the five main WHOIS servers responsible for major world regions. The program tries to establish the most authoritative location for the IP specified and then return the country's two-letter TLD, the extended country name, its world region, and a description of the organization managing IP (when available).

The program can also process a list of IPs stored in a comma delimited file and generate a new file with the country fields added to it. The program is fast, multi-threaded, and queries all the servers in parallel to speed up the overall response time.

TIPP10 is a free touch typing tutor with an extensive progress tracker, numerous training lessons and the ability to create your own. Characters that are mistyped are repeated more frequently. Also available in PortableApps.com format.

Stamina is a multifunctional touch-typing tutor with support for several Keyboard layouts and languages. Lessons designed for mastering certain keys. Use text from an external file, lesson editor. Precision clock & Timer. Progress graphs by days and sessions. Statistics: Keystrokes (in Kb) & duration. Illumination of letters and finger work zones on the virtual keyboard. MP3 background + a Playlist. Customizable appearance.

Osiva is a small and fast image viewer with a drag-and-drop interface that can scale, zoom, pan, rotate, sort images quickly. It can create slideshows, animations, and dissolve effects.

GSview is a graphical interface for Ghostscript, an interpreter for the PostScript page description language used by laser printers. For documents following the Adobe PostScript Document Structuring Conventions, GSview allows selected pages to be viewed, printed and converted.

• Display, print and convert PostScript (PS, EPS) and PDF files
• Extract selected pages to another file
• Add or extract preview images
• Graphically select and show bounding boxes
• Supports English, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish languages
• And more

List Numberer allows you to create a text number listing in various customizable ways. The program is useful for automatically numbering lists where Word and many other programs only create number systems according to predefined formats.

Choose starting number, customizable increments (e.g. 1, 2, 3; 1, 3, 5; 1, 4, 7), prefixes and suffixes to numbers (e.g. A-1, 2B, etc.), and the ability to strip leading numbers (for already numbered lists that need to be fixed), restart numbering for blank lines, and more.

Real Temp is a monitoring program designed to see the temperature of all Intel "Core" processors including Core 1, 2, i3, i5, and i7 processors. Each core has a digital thermal sensor (DTS) that reports data relative to the safe maximum operating temperature, known as "TjMax". As your CPU heats up, your "Distance to TjMax" will decrease.

As these processors will start to throttle or slow down as they approach their maximum temperature, it's possible to have a computer that slows down dramatically. To increase speed and reliability, a good TjMax distance is ideal.

The program also supports full logging, temperature alarms and shutdown, and the ability to calibrate for each core of your CPU.

ActiveXHelper allows you to view essential information about ActiveX components installed on your computer. You can view the entire and very large list of ActiveX components by loading it from the registry key (HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\CLSID) or alternatively display only the ActiveX components that you specify.

In addition, you can temporarily disable specific ActiveX components so they cannot be used by any software until you enable them again.

Desktop Calendar is a minimalistic calendar and reminder tool that unobtrusively sits transparently on your desktop. The program uses no taskbar button or system tray icon.

Fonts, colours and tooltips are customizable so it blends in with your desktop colour and font schemes.

Scriptly is an extensive code editor for writing HTML and programming with PHP. In addition to the comprehensive search and replace facility, the program features syntax highlighting for several script languages and file types. Code snippets and complex tables can be added quickly and easily.

DPC Latency Checker analyzes the capabilities of a computer system to handle real-time data streams properly. It may help to find the cause for interruptions in real-time audio and video streams, also known as drop-outs.

DiskView shows you a graphical map of your disk. It allows you to determine where a file is located or, by clicking on a cluster, see which file occupies it. You can double-click to get more information about a file to which a cluster is allocated.

Dad's Around is a "boss key" application that stops all applications and turn the volume to zero. This can be achieved by using the hotkey combination WIN+Z. This can be changed by right-clicking on the taskbar icon and selecting options.

FavBackup is a simple solution for backing up and restoring various web browser settings and other data. It can also backup Portable versions of your favorite browsers too, but specify the profile before doing so.

Enchanted Keyfinder (formerly Magical Jelly Bean Keyfinder) retrieves the product keys for many products including Adobe, AutoCAD, Macromedia, Sony and more. Microsoft products include Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP, Vista, Server 03 and 08, Office 97, XP, 03, 08, and others. Keys are drawn from the registry or from an unbootable Windows installation. You can also copy the key to clipboard, save it to a text file, or print them for safekeeping.

Snapshoter is a small productivity tool that includes image and video capture program, clipboard manager, image composer, and a post-it note functions. The program can also make image edits with layers, scale, rotate, borders, contrast, add transparency, and use text or arrows. It can also add watermarks or create collages.

Supports skins, Dropbox, and saves to JPG, PNG, BMP, GIF or ILBM image formats.

Cross-platform with support for Mac, AmigaO/AROS, and MorphOS.

Note: Tooltips are visible at the bottom of the window when hovering over an item in the interface.

Eclipse quickly encrypts/decrypt text, useful for adding security to instant messaging and email conversations. A customizable hotkey system (by default Ctrl+Shift+E) works on highlighted text to copy encrypted text to the clipboard after prompting for a password. Secure text can then be pasted into any editor or application and then decrypted via the same method.

The program is an interface for a command-line utility called MySecret, which uses the Blowfish encryption algorithm. Eclipse is written in AutoHotkey.

Pivot is an easy program to create stick-figure animations. You can build your own stick figures and load your own backgrounds. The animations can be saved as animated GIFs. Some examples are included.

Cherbox (formerly BBox) unites several different components including a program launcher, file organizer, as well as bookmark management and password manager tool. The window allows you to organize elements into drag-and-drop categories and hierarchical grouping to reduce clutter.

Note: The program has an internal password generator and can be password-protected.