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Yourls.com - Your URLs on a personal startpage
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Stop typing in those same URLs over and over again. Create a simple startpage today and start saving time! Free and without any ads. Just works!

Online
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SpiderOak - Free, secure online backup
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SpiderOak provides an easy, secure and consolidated free online backup, storage, access, sharing & sync* tool for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux (Ubuntu, Debian & Fedora).

Mac, iPhone, iPad, WindowsWindows 2000 or later, 128 MB RAM, 19 MB of free disk space , Android, Linux, Online

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Dropbox

Freemium by Dropbox |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Android, Linux, Online
+2 more Blackberry, Kindle Fire

Put your files into your Dropbox on one computer, and they'll be instantly available on any of your other computers that also have Dropbox installed. Because copies of your files are stored on Dropbox's secure servers, you can also...

Backup & Sync, File Sharing file-sharing, online-storage, online-backup
+9 more file-synchronization, file-backup, built-in-player, folder-sync, built-in-viewer, offline-access, online-harddrive, selective-sync, sync-lan
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VLC media player

Open Source by VideoLAN |
Mac, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux, Haiku

VLC media player is an lightweight, open-source multimedia player that supports nearly all digital audio and video formats (e.g. H.264 ,MKV, TS (but not from Technisat DigiCorder), MPEG-2, mp3, AVI, MPEG-4,...

Audio & Music, Video & Movies portable http://portableapps.com/de/apps/music_video/vlc_portable, streaming, media-player, internet-radio
+8 more podcast, avi, ogg, mp4, codec, mkv, ffmpeg, converting
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Firefox

Open Source by Mozilla Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux, Haiku

Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser descended from the Mozilla Application Suite. Firefox is highly extensible, with thousands of third-party add-ons available. Add-ons gallery:...

Web Browsers portable, multi-language, internet-browser, plugins
+5 more extensions, internet-explorer, mozilla, addons, bookmark-sync-own
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Google Chrome

Free by Google Inc. |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux

A free web browser developed by Google with a focus on speed and minimalism. Chrome offers fast start-up and web page loading, sports a minimalist user interface, automatically updates in the background, and...

Web Browsers portable http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable, web-browser, internet-browser, extensions
+3 more mobile-browser, chromium, bookmark-sync-own
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µTorrent

Freemium by BitTorrent Inc |
Mac, Windows, Android, Linux

µTorrent (a.k.a uTorrent or MicroTorrent) is a lightweight BitTorrent client that includes standard features such as bandwidth prioritization, scheduling, RSS auto-downloading and Mainline DHT....

File Sharing portable, wine It runs on Linux using Wine, peer-to-peer, bittorrent, bittorrent-client
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Gmail

Free by Google |
iPhone, iPad, Android, Online, Symbian S60, Blackberry

Gmail is a free search-based web-mail service. It offers a full featured web-based email client with search capabilities, a mailbox with Pop and IMAP access, SPAM protection, display of email threads as...

Office & Productivity webmail, email-client, webmail-service-provider
+1 more mail-filter
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Skype

Freemium by Skype Limited |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Linux, Online
+3 more Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, HP webOS

Skype is a proprietary software application that offers free Skype-to-Skype calls and low-cost local, national and international calls to both traditional land-line telephones and mobile phones. Additional...

Social portable Not original portable version: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/skype_portable, chat, voip, instant-messenger, video-chat
+4 more screen-sharing, video-conferencing, video-calls, group-video-chat
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Evernote

Freemium by Evernote Corporation |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Online
+3 more Windows Mobile, HP webOS, Blackberry

Evernote easily captures information in any environment on most devices and platforms, and makes this information accessible and searchable at any time, anywhere. There are 3 version groups of Evernote:...

Office & Productivity iphone retina, ipad retina, notes, note-taking, notepad, ocr
+2 more text-recognition, online-notes
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TeamViewer

Free* by TeamViewer GmbH |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, Linux, Online

TeamViewer lets you establish a connection to any PC or server within just a few seconds. You can remote control the PC of your partner as if you were sitting right in front of it. New features such as...

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities portable, remote-access, remote-desktop
+2 more desktop-sharing, remote-computer-control
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Last.fm

Freemium by Last.fm Ltd. |
Mac, iPhone, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, Linux, Online

Last.fm is a music community website that offers personalized internet radio, using a recommendation system called "Audioscrobbler" to build a detailed profile of users based on their music tastes...

Audio & Music streaming, music-streaming, internet-radio
+1 more radio-stations
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Grooveshark

Freemium by Escape Media Group |
iPhone, Android, Online, Symbian S60, HP webOS, Blackberry

Grooveshark is a free, internationally-available music streaming service and song recommendation engine. It allows users to search for, stream, and upload music, free of charge.

Audio & Music jailbreak, streaming, music-streaming, internet-radio
+1 more free-music
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Adblock Plus

Open Source by Wladimir Palant |
Mac, Windows, Android, Linux, Chrome OS

Adblock Plus is a Firefox add-on and Chrome extension that blocks internet ads, allowing you to regain control of the internet and view the web the way you want to. It is supported by over forty filter...

Web Browsers plugin / add-on Firefox, Chrome and Opera extension., ad-blocker, opera-extension
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LastPass

Freemium by LastPass Corp |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Phone, Android, Linux, Online
+4 more Windows Mobile, Symbian S60, HP webOS, Blackberry

LastPass is a secure, browser-based password manager that supports Firefox, Internet Explorer, Chrome, and Safari. Sync your passwords between multiple browsers and computers. With LastPass you can: -Create...

Security & Privacy, Web Browsers portable Version for Portable Firefox and Chrome, also LastPass Pocket, plugin / add-on Plugins for IE, Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, security, password-management
+4 more browser-addon, password-recovery, form-filler, online-password-manager
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Google Reader

Free by Google |
Android + Tablet, Online

Google Reader is a Web-based aggregator, capable of reading Atom and RSS feeds online or offline. Have trouble keeping up with the sites you visit? Read them in one place with Google Reader, where keeping up...

News & Books discontinued Google Reader will not be available after July 1, 2013. Until then you can export your feeds with Google Takeout: https://www.google.com/takeout/, web-based, rss-feed-reader, feed-reader
+4 more news-reader, atom, news-aggregator, opml-import
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Wikipedia

Open Source by Wikimedia Foundation |
iPhone, Windows Metro, Android, Online

Wikipedia is a free, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Wikipedia has 17 million articles (3.5 million in English), which have been written collaboratively by...

Education & Reference wiki, wikipedia, user-generated, encyclopedia
+3 more lexicon, web2, mediawiki
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Google Maps

Free by Google |
iPhone, Windows Mobile, Android + Tablet, Online, Java (Mobile), Symbian S60, Blackberry

Google Maps is a basic web mapping service application and technology provided by Google. It offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, car, or public transport and an urban business locator...

Travel & Location maps, navigation, map-online, maps-navigation-trips
+1 more maping
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Steam

Free by Valve Corporation |
Mac, iPhone, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux, Online

Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a wide range of games and related media entirely...

Games, Social game, chat, store, digital-distribution
+2 more content-delivery, game-store
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Google Earth

Free* by Google |
Mac, iPhone, Windows, Android, Linux

Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save...

Travel & Location maps, satellite, geographic, earth
+3 more geospatial-applications, map-viewer, virtual-globe
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Wordpress

Open Source by Wordpress |
iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Online, Blackberry

WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability. WordPress is both free and priceless at the same time. More simply, WordPress is what you use...

Business & Commerce portable http://www.web266.de/software/eigene-software/portable-webserver.html, php, cms, blogging, webserver
+2 more blog-publishing, create-blog
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Spotify

Freemium by Spotify |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Linux, Online
+1 more Blackberry

Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing content from a range of major and independent record labels. As of 2013, the service is available in 24 countries. A free trial period is activated...

Audio & Music music-player, music-streaming, share-on-facebook
+10 more integrated-search, social-application, internet-radio, music-discovery, create-playlist, share-music, listen-music, offline-support, last.fm-scrobbler, freemium
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Google Docs (Suite)

Free by Google |
iPhone, Android + Tablet, Online

Google Docs is a free, Web-based office suite. It offers a word processor, spreadsheet application, presentation program, graphics application, and a form designer. Users can upload and access their work...

Office & Productivity iphone retina, collaboration, presentation
+6 more word-processing, ocr, spreadsheet, realtime, ocr-online, realtime-collaboration
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Google Search

Free by Google |
iPhone, Android + Tablet, Online

Google Search is the most popular search engine on the internet. Google can search for webpages, images, videos, news, and various other forms of media. Google Search with SSL encryption:...

search-engine, web-search
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Winamp

Freemium by Nullsoft / AOL |
Mac, Windows, Android

Winamp is a highly-extensible media player that supports a wide range of audio formats, including MP3, Ogg, MIDI, MOD, MPEG, AAC, M4A, FLAC, WAV and WMA. In addition, Winamp can play and import music from...

Audio & Music, CD/DVD Tools, Video & Movies music-player, mp3, itunes, media-player
+9 more audio-cd-ripper, audio-cd-burner, ogg, shoutcast, audio-cd, ipod-sync, android-sync, gracenote, avi-player
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Songbird

Open Source by Pioneers of the Inevitable |
Mac, Windows, Android

Songbird is an open-source customizable music player thats under active development. It is based on the Mozilla platform and the ability to customize the program is huge. Loads of add-ons available!

Audio & Music, Video & Movies music-player, media-player, lyrics, video-player
+5 more music-library, album-artwork, shoutcast, ipod-sync, media-manager
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Facebook

Free by Mark Zuckerberg |
iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Online
+5 more Windows Mobile, Java (Mobile), Symbian S60, HP webOS, Blackberry

Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Millions of people use Facebook everyday to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of...

Social social-network, friends