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VLC media player

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

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

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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7-Zip

Open Source by Igor Pavlov |
Windows, Windows Mobile, Linux

7-zip is an open source Windows utility for manipulating archives. Supported formats: * Packing / unpacking: 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR * Unpacking only: ARJ, CAB, CHM, CPIO, DEB, DMG, HFS, ISO, LZH,...

File Management file-manager, encryption, zip, rar, archive-manager
+10 more file-compression, unzip, unpack, file-archiver, explorer-integration, archiving, tar, decompression, 7zip, file-utilities
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GIMP

Open Source by GIMP |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GIMP is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online...

Photos & Graphics portable Available also as portable app: http://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable, image-editing, graphic, photo-retouching
+3 more perspective, shift-lens, architectural-photography
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VirtualBox

Open Source by Oracle (Sun Microsystems) |
Mac, Windows, Linux

VirtualBox is a powerful x86 & AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product. It allows you to run multiple operating systems on your computer, at the same time. VirtualBox can run a large number of guest...

Development, Network & Admin, OS & Utilities portable Portable VBox isn't made by Oracle. The portable 64bit-Version seems to work only with a parallel original VirtualBox Desktop installation. Download from http://www.techbeta.org/category/portable-apps, operating-system, virtualization, vmware
+2 more virtual-machine, sun
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Ubuntu

Open Source by Canonical Ltd |
Android + Tablet, Linux

Ubuntu is a community developed, Linux-based operating system that is perfect for laptops, desktops and servers. It contains all the applications you need - a web browser, presentation, document and...

OS & Utilities operating-system, linux-distribution, gnu
+2 more debian-derivative, mobile-operating-system
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FileZilla

Open Source by File Zilla Project |
Mac, Windows, Linux

FileZilla is a powerful FTP-client for Windows NT4, 2000 and XP. It has been designed for ease of use and with support for as many features as possible, while still being fast and reliable. The program...

File Management portable Portable version offcially available at project's website, ftp, file-transfer, ftp-client
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Pidgin

Open Source by Pidgin |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Pidgin is an easy to use, multi-protocol chat client client used by millions. Connect to AIM, MSN, Yahoo, XMPP, and more chat networks all at once. It has built-in support for NSS, offering client-to-server...

Social portable PortableApps.com distributes a portable version., chat, instant-messenger, messenger, irc
+10 more jabber, msn, yahoo, chat-client, xmpp, icq, aim, google-talk, multi-protocol, gadu-gadu
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Audacity

Open Source by The Audacity Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. You can use Audacity to record live audio, convert tapes and records, edit sound files, change the speed or pitch of a recording and...

Audio & Music portable http://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable, recording, music-production, audio-editor
+2 more record-output, pitch-correction
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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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JDownloader

Open Source by AppWork UG |
Mac, Windows, Linux

JDownloader simplifies and improves the process of downloading files from "free" file hosting sites like Rapidshare or Megaupload. JDownloader offers downloading in multiple parallel streams, CAPTCHA...

File Sharing portable http://jdownloader-portable.softonic.de/, java, download-manager, downloader
+7 more java-based, download-youtube, metalink, link-checker, file-download, captcha-recognition, dlc
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Thunderbird

Open Source by Mozilla |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Thunderbird is a free, open source, cross-platform e-mail, news and instant messaging client. The project strategy is modeled after Mozilla Firefox. Advantages compared with the most popular web e-mail...

Office & Productivity, Social portable An unofficial portable version is available from PortableApps.com, instant-messaging, imap, tabbed-interface
+4 more email-client, chat-client, extendable, smime
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LibreOffice

Open Source by The Document Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

LibreOffice is a free office suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and is available on all operating systems. It is an independently-developed version of the OpenOffice.org suite. ...

Office & Productivity portable LibreOffice Portable is a full-featured portable version of LibreOffice – including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database – packaged as a portable app., database, multi-language, word-processor
+6 more spreadsheet, presentation, pdf-creation, office-suite, built-in-pdf-converter, microsoft-office-compatible
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HandBrake

Open Source by HandBrake Team |
Mac, Windows, Linux

HandBrake is an open-source, multithreaded video transcoder- it converts digital media from one format to another, compressing the files in the process. Handbrake can rip encrypted DVDs with libdvdcss...

CD/DVD Tools, Video & Movies video-conversion, burning, ffmpeg, compressor
+3 more converting, transcoder, mpeg-4
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Inkscape

Open Source by Inkscape |
Mac, Windows, Linux

An Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Inkscape supports many advanced SVG...

Office & Productivity, Photos & Graphics pdf-editor, illustration, vector, svg-editor
+1 more vector-graphics
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Transmission

Open Source by Transmission Project |
Mac, Linux

Transmission has the features you expect in a BitTorrent client: encryption, a web-based interface, peer exchange, UPnP and NAT-PMP port forwarding, web seed support, watch directories, tracker editing, global...

File Sharing file-sharing, bittorrent-client, torrents
+1 more torrent-download
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PuTTY

Open Source by Simon Tatham |
Windows, Linux

PuTTY is a free implementation of Telnet and SSH for Windows and Unix platforms. A simple, lightweight client for connecting to a Linux shell from your Windows machine!

Network & Admin, OS & Utilities ssh, terminal, console, terminal-emulator, telnet
+2 more ssh-client, telnet-client
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TrueCrypt

Open Source by TrueCrypt Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Free Open Source disk encryption software for Windows Vista/XP, Mac OS X, and Linux. Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as a real disk. Encrypts an entire partition or storage...

Security & Privacy portable You need admin rights, see http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=truecrypt-portable, security, encryption, drive, disk-encryption
+2 more encrypt-disk, encrypt-usb-drive
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Eclipse

Open Source by Eclipse Foundation, Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Eclipse is an extensible development platform with runtimes and application frameworks for building, deploying and managing software across the entire software lifecycle. Many people know Eclipse as a Java...

Development php, programming, ide, java, python, perl
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KeePass

Open Source by Crypto-Gram |
Mac, Windows, Linux

KeePass is a free open source password manager, which helps you to manage your passwords in a secure way. You can put all your passwords in one database, which is locked with one master key or a key file. So...

Security & Privacy portable, security, password-manager
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Apache OpenOffice Writer

Open Source by Apache Software Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Writer, part of the Apache OpenOffice suite, is an open-source word processor. It supports the ISO standard Open Document Format (ODF) for data interchange as its default file format, as well as Microsoft...

Office & Productivity word-processor, writing, openoffice-suite
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Apache OpenOffice

Open Source by Apache Software Foundation |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Apache OpenOffice is a leading open-source office suite that offers free applications for word processing, spreadsheet, presentations, graphics, databases and more. All data is stored in an open standard...

Office & Productivity portable, database, word-processing, presentation
+4 more office-suite, spreadsheet, built-in-pdf-converter, microsoft-office-compatible
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Tor

Open Source by The Tor Project Inc. |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Tor is free portable software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships,...

Security & Privacy portable, proxy, vpn, online-anonymity, ipmask
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GParted

Open Source by Curtis Gedak & Steven Shiau |
Mac, Windows, Linux

GParted is a GTK+ frontend to GNU Parted and the official GNOME Partition Editor application. It is used for creating, deleting, resizing, moving, checking and copying partitions, and the file systems on them....

OS & Utilities live-cd, system-utilities, system-restore
+6 more partitioning, filesystem-tools, disk-tools, rescue-cd, exfat.noresize, testdisk
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Launchy

Open Source by Josh Karlin |
Mac, Windows, Linux

Launchy is a free Windows and Linux utility designed to help you forget about your start menu, the icons on your desktop, and even your file manager. Launchy indexes the programs in your start menu and can...

File Management, Office & Productivity application-launcher, file-search, plugins
+5 more start-menu, extensible, keystroke-launcher, desktop-search, launch-bar