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Dropbox

Free* by Dropbox |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Android, Linux, Online
+1 more Blackberry

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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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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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

Free* 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

Free* 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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LastPass

Free* 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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Foxit Reader

Free by Foxit Software |
iPhone, iPad, Windows, Windows Metro, Android + Tablet, Linux
+2 more Windows Mobile, Symbian S60

Foxit Reader is a free and light-weight PDF document viewer for Windows. Its core function is compatible with PDF Standard 1.7. Notable features include: Annotation tool: draw graphics, highlight text, type text and make notes on a PDF document and then print out or save...

Office & Productivity portable Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/office/foxit_reader_portable, multi-language, pdf-viewer
+8 more tabbed-interface, pdf-reader, pdf-annotation, convert-to-pdf, scan-to-pdf, sign-pdf, pdf-printer, tablet-support
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iTunes

Free by Apple |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows

iTunes is a proprietary digital media player application by Apple, used for playing and organizing digital music and video files. It also manages the contents on iPod music players, iPhones, and iPads, and...

Audio & Music, Video & Movies music-player, mp3, media-player, ipod, app-store
+6 more ipod-sync, sync-itunes-libraries, ipod-backup, iphone-sync, gracenote, ibooks
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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

Free* 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, listen-music, share-music, offline-support, last-fm-scrobbler, freemium
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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
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Google Plus

Free by Google |
iPhone, iPad, Android + Tablet, Online

The Google+ project aims to make sharing on the web more like sharing in real life. Sharing is a huge part of the web, a part that Google+ makes a lot simpler with these features: - Circles makes it easy...

Social social-network, social-media, video-chat, group-chat
+2 more recommendation, group-texting
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Google Drive

Free* by Google |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android + Tablet, Online

Google Drive is a place where you can can upload, access, and share all of your files. You can get started with 5GB of storage for free. Google Drive can automatically sync files on your computer, or you can...

Backup & Sync, File Sharing file-sharing, online-storage, storage, file-storage
+4 more integrated-search, file-synchronization, online-harddrive, file-viewer
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Twitter

Free by Twitter |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows Metro, Windows Phone, Android, Online

In countries all around the world, people follow the sources most relevant to them and access information via Twitter as it happens—from breaking world news to updates from friends. Twitter, as well as...

Social twitter, social-network, real-time, microblogging
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YouTube

Free by Google |
iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Online
+4 more Windows Mobile, Java (Mobile), Symbian S60, Blackberry

YouTube is the most popular video-hosting website in the world- users can upload, view, and share videos, all for free. Videos can be easily downloaded with third party applications. HD video is supported....

Video & Movies youtube, share-video, video-sharing, youtube-player
+2 more youtube-upload, google-tv
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Pandora

Free* by Pandora Media, Inc. |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Online
+3 more Windows Mobile, HP webOS, Blackberry

Pandora Radio is a free (ad-supported) internet radio founded in 2000. Using the Music Genome Project, over 400 attributes of songs are analyzed in order to personalize radio stations from music you like....

Audio & Music streaming, music-streaming, internet-radio
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XBMC Media Center

Open Source by Team XBMC |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Linux

XBMC is a free and open source media player and entertainment center for Linux, Mac OS X, Windows, XBox, and iOS. XBMC is designed to be the perfect companion to a home theater PC- it supports an almost...

Audio & Music, Video & Movies jailbreak Jailbroken iDevices only, music-player, media-player, movies
+8 more video-player, music-library, television, media-library, mediacenter, movie-library, airplay, video-library
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XMarks

Free* by LastPass |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Linux, Online
+2 more Java (Mobile), Blackberry

Xmarks is a cross-browser, bookmark-synchronization service for Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iPhone, Android & iPad. Xmarks also offers search enhancement and web discovery based on sites...

Web Browsers plugin / add-on The add-ons for Firefox/Chrome/IE/Safari will remain free after the takeover by LastPass, bookmarks, links, bookmark-manager
+8 more bookmark-management, bookmark-organize, bookmark-sharing, bookmark-sync, bookmark-server, internet-links, cross-browser-sync, browser-sync
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Google Drive - Docs

Free by Google |
iPhone, iPad, Android + Tablet, Online

Google Docs is an online word processor that lets you create and format text documents and collaborate with other people in real time. Here's what you can do with Google Docs: • Upload a Word document...

Office & Productivity word-processing, word, online-collaboration
+3 more documents, writer, docs
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LogMeIn

Free* by LogMeIn Inc. |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Online

LogMeIn Free gives you remote control of your PC or Mac from any other computer with an Internet connection: 2-minute set-up & 100% free. For file transfer, sound, and printing, you need LogMeIn Pro²;...

Network & Admin portable Portable app for windows: 7.95 $ http://download.cnet.com/LogMeIn-Ignition/3000-7240_4-10710716.html, remote-access, remote-desktop
+1 more remote-connection
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Angry Birds

Commercial by Rovio |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android, Online, Symbian S60, HP webOS

The survival of the Angry Birds is at stake. Dish out revenge on the green pigs who stole the Birds’ eggs. Use the unique destructive powers of the Angry Birds to lay waste to the pigs’ fortified castles. ...

Games iphone retina, game, physics-game, castle-demolition
+3 more birds, pigs, box2d
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Minecraft

Commercial by Mojang AB |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android + Tablet, Linux, Online

Minecraft is a sandbox game that revolves around using building blocks to create anything you want. At night, monsters come out; make sure to build a shelter before that happens. The game also has multiplayer...

Games iphone retina Requires iPhone 4 or higher, game, multiplayer, single-player
+6 more blocks, construction-game, construction, mine, craft, dig
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IMDb

Free* by Amazon |
iPhone, iPad, Windows Phone, Android + Tablet, Online

The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in...

Video & Movies movies, tv-shows, video-games, movie-database
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SpiderOak

Free* by Spideroak |
Mac, iPhone, iPad, Windows, Android, Linux, Online

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). SpiderOak offers a different...

Backup & Sync backup, online-storage, storage, online-backup
+7 more folder-sync, english-only, offline-access, selective-sync, sync-lan, online-sync, sync-any-folder