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Greenfish Icon Editor Pro is a tool for creating icons, animated or static cursors and other small images. Can extract icons and cursors from executable files and icon libraries, batch convert image files to icons or other image formats and supports advanced selection handling (marquee, lasso and wand tools, saving/loading selections from files). Offers various gradient styles for filling shapes, and includes many filters such as remove matte, drop shadow, inner/outer glow and bevel etc.

The program opens and saves in ICO, CUR, ANI, PNG, XPM, BMP, JPEG, WebP and TGA formats and creates icons and cursors up to 256x256 @ 32-bit, which can also be PNG-compressed for use in Vista and above.

Include Greenfish Image Converter (for processing TIFF and SVG files), which requires .NET Framework 3.5.

A 64-bit version is available (within the folder). Alternatively, a PortableApps version is also available: Greenfish Icon Editor Pro Portable.

ColorCop allows you to magnify any part of your screen and pick a color from it using the eye dropper tool. The magnifier supports 1 to 16x zoom, and the eye dropper tool can pick an average color from a 3x3 or 5x5 area instead of sampling only a single pixel. The picked color can be easily exported to various formats required by HTML, Delphi, PowerBuilder, Visual Basic or Visual C++ etc.

Note: versions newer than v5.3 are no longer natively portable (see "What's new?" button above), because they leave traces in the system; as the license doesn't forbid redistribution, TPFC is making the natively portable v5.3 available for download.

Win-X-Move solves the issue of trying to target the pesky titlebar to move a window, or the even more elusive corners to resize it. The program allows you to move any window by dragging it from anywhere while pressing the ALT key, and resize a window by right-mouse-button-dragging it from anywhere while pressing the ALT key.

Untangle is a puzzle game in which you are given a number of points, some of which have lines drawn between them. You can move the points about arbitrarily; your aim is to position the points so that no line crosses another.

Qlock is a world clock program with support for alarms, notes and time synchronization. You can create clocks for different countries/cities and view them all on the desktop.Note that options marked with a [Pro] icon are payware-only features. You can try them out a number of times before a reminder window pops up and asks you to upgrade. This includes features like the integrated RSS/Atom feed reader and daily foreign exchange rates.

Note: v1.86 appears to be last portable version.

Calcute is an unobstrusive scientific tape calculator. Calcute lets you enter complete expressions as if you were using a regular text editor. You can see what you are doing so you can easily make corrections. Type what you want to calculate, press Enter to get the answer. The calculator keypad can remain hidden or it can be shown if you prefer to click buttons with the mouse instead of typing.

Ken Renamer is a rename utility. Among its many features: wildcards, macro, numbered file lists. string. replacement/remove (regular expressions), undo. It also supports tags: ID3V1, ID3V2 and EXIF.

Total Text Container is a personal information manager that lets you to store all kinds of different content within a single encrypted XML database, including rich text, images, spreadsheets, URLs/passwords, contacts, calender events, catalogs, files etc. Each item in the database is capable of supporting a mashup of content types, so you can store and view all related information on the same page easily.

Warning: some users have reported software problems -- program should be considered beta software.

ColorPic is an easy program to pick any color from the screen and to store it in different palettes automatically (single XML file), ready to be used. Colors are shown in hex and decimal. It can show and modify many values (Hue, Saturation, RGB and so on). It also uses a resizable magnification area and collapsible sections. It can calculate web-safe colors.

NOTE: Program became shareware, linking to Archive.org to the latest freeware version.

TrayBar is a program launcher to handle programs, folders and files. You can also create submenus. Programs can be launched as minimized, hidden, maximized, or in a normal state. It is also possible to have a list of E-mail addresses "to launch" by the default mail client.

NiftyWindows enhances basic window operations like dragging, resizing, maximizing, minimizing, closing and many others. You can use it to make a window always-on-top, roll it up to the title bar, adjust its transparency, resize it in various ways (snap-to-grid, percentage steps etc.), make window focus follow the mouse cursor etc. For more information, please check out the feature list.

Poweroff enables you to schedule any of the following actions: shutdown, reboot, logoff, poweroff, standby, hibernate, lock, wake-on-LAN at a certain time. It contains a built-in scheduler and allows you to run another program before doing the action, issue a warning message, or wait for a process to finish before performing the action. Command-line options are also supported.

Monitors is a no-frills virtual desktop manager that gives you 10 desktops to work with. You can run different applications on each desktop, and a single click on the virtual desktop panel switches between the different desktops.

NOTE: As user Quilan pointed out, the main site is offline. If you know a suitable mirror, please post in forums.

Twiddle is a puzzle game in which you are given a grid of square tiles, each containing a number, and your aim is to arrange the numbers into ascending order.

Tents is a puzzle game in which you have a grid of squares, some of which contain trees. Your aim is to place tents in some of the remaining squares and have them meet a variety of conditions.

Solo is basically a Sudoku game. It is a complete but tiny application. It allows to play with modified square grids at various difficulty levels (4 levels with classic sudoku). It is also possible to print out the generated grids (solved and unsolved).

Slant is a puzzle game in which you have a grid of squares. Your aim is to draw a diagonal line through each square, and choose which way each line slants so that the diagonal lines never form a loop and any point with a circled number has exactly that many lines meeting it.

Sixteen is a puzzle game in which 16 squares on a grid contain numbered squares. Your move is to shift an entire row left or right, or shift an entire column up or down; every time you do that, the tile you shift off the grid re-appears at the other end of the same row, in the space you just vacated. To win, arrange the tiles into numerical order (1,2,3,4 on the top row, 13,14,15,16 on the bottom). When you've done that, try playing on different sizes of grid.

Same Game is a puzzler in which you have a grid of coloured squares, which you have to clear by highlighting contiguous regions of more than one coloured square; the larger the region you highlight, the more points you get (and the faster you clear the arena).

Rectangles is a game in which you have a grid of squares, with numbers written in some (but not all) of the squares. Your task is to subdivide the grid into rectangles of various sizes, such that (a) every rectangle contains exactly one numbered square, and (b) the area of each rectangle is equal to the number written in its numbered square.

Pegs is a game in which a number of pegs are placed in holes on a board. You can remove a peg by jumping an adjacent peg over it (horizontally or vertically) to a vacant hole on the other side. Your aim is to remove all but one of the pegs initially present.

Pattern is a puzzle game in which you have a grid of squares, which must all be filled in either black or white. Beside each row of the grid are listed the lengths of the runs of black squares on that row; above each column are listed the lengths of the runs of black squares in that column. Your aim is to fill in the entire grid black or white.

Netslide is a game in which you have a Net grid, but instead of rotating tiles back into place you have to slide them into place by moving a whole row at a time.

Net is a game in which the computer prepares a network by connecting up the centres of squares in a grid, and then shuffles the network by rotating every tile randomly. Your job is to rotate it all back into place. The successful solution will be an entirely connected network, with no closed loops. As a visual aid, all tiles which are connected to the one in the middle are highlighted.

Mines is a cross-platform clone of the popular game Minesweeper. You have a grid of covered squares, some of which contain mines, but you don't know which. Your job is to uncover every square which does not contain a mine. If you uncover a square containing a mine, you lose. If you uncover a square which does not contain a mine, you are told how many mines are contained within the eight surrounding squares.

Map is a game in which you are given a map consisting of a number of regions. Your task is to colour each region with one of four colours, in such a way that no two regions sharing a boundary have the same colour. You are provided with some regions already coloured, sufficient to make the remainder of the solution unique.

Loopy is a game in which you are given a grid of dots. Your aim is to draw a single unbroken loop from dot to dot within the grid.

Light up is a game in which you have a grid of squares. Some are filled in black; some of the black squares are numbered. Your aim is to ‘light up’ all the empty squares by placing light bulbs in some of them.

Inertia is a puzzle game in which you are a small green ball sitting in a grid full of obstacles. Your aim is to collect all the gems without running into any mines. You can move the ball in any orthogonal or diagonal direction. Once the ball starts moving, it will continue until something stops it. A wall directly in its path will stop it (but if it is moving diagonally, it will move through a diagonal gap between two other walls without stopping). Also, some of the squares are ‘stops’; when the ball moves on to a stop, it will stop moving no matter what direction it was going in. Gems do not stop the ball; it picks them up and keeps on going. Running into a mine is fatal. Even if you picked up the last gem in the same move which then hit a mine, the game will count you as dead rather than victorious.

Guess is a puzzle game in which you have a set of coloured pegs, and have to reproduce a predetermined sequence of them (chosen by the computer) within a certain number of guesses. Each guess gets marked with the number of correctly-coloured pegs in the correct places (in black), and also the number of correctly-coloured pegs in the wrong places (in white). This game is also known (and marketed, by Hasbro, mainly) as a board game ‘Mastermind’, with 6 colours, 4 pegs per row, and 10 guesses. However, this version allows custom settings of number of colours (up to 10), number of pegs per row, and number of guesses.

Flip is a puzzle game in which you have a grid of squares, some light and some dark. Your aim is to light all the squares up at the same time. You can choose any square and flip its state from light to dark or dark to light, but when you do so, other squares around it change state as well.

Fifteen is a puzzle game in which you have a 4×4 square grid; 15 squares contain numbered tiles, and the sixteenth is empty. Your move is to choose a tile next to the empty space, and slide it into the space. The aim is to end up with the tiles in numerical order, with the space in the bottom right (so that the top row reads 1,2,3,4 and the bottom row reads 13,14,15,space).

Dominosa is a game in which a normal set of dominoes – that is, one instance of every (unordered) pair of numbers from 0 to 6 – has been arranged irregularly into a rectangle; then the number in each square has been written down and the dominoes themselves removed. Your task is to reconstruct the pattern by arranging the set of dominoes to match the provided array of numbers.

Cube is a puzzle game in which you have a grid of 16 squares, six of which are blue; on one square rests a cube. Your move is to use the arrow keys to roll the cube through 90 degrees so that it moves to an adjacent square. If you roll the cube on to a blue square, the blue square is picked up on one face of the cube; if you roll a blue face of the cube on to a non-blue square, the blueness is put down again. (In general, whenever you roll the cube, the two faces that come into contact swap colours.) Your job is to get all six blue squares on to the six faces of the cube at the same time. Count your moves and try to do it in as few as possible.

Bridges is a puzzle game in which you have a set of islands distributed across the playing area. Each island contains a number. Your aim is to connect the islands together with bridges.

Black Box is a puzzle game in which a number of balls are hidden in a rectangular arena. You have to deduce the positions of the balls by firing lasers from positions on the edge of the arena and observing how they are deflected.

Nero Info Tool interrogates and reports hardware and software info on CD and DVD drives.