NSIS portable 2.45: installer creation to go

NSIS (Nullsoft Scriptable Install System) is a professional open source system to create Windows installers. It is designed to be as small and flexible as possible and is therefore very suitable for internet distribution.

Being a user's first experience with your product, a stable and reliable installer is an important component of succesful software. With NSIS you can create such installers that are capable of doing everything that is needed to setup your software.

NSIS is script-based and allows you to create the logic to handle even the most complex installation tasks. Many plug-ins and scripts are already available: you can create web installers, communicate with Windows and other software components, install or update shared components and more.

Feature

NSIS can create Windows installers that are capable of installing, uninstalling, setting system settings, extracting files, etc. Because NSIS is based on script files, you can create both simple and advanced installers. Its features include:

    * Small overhead size

    * Compatible with all major Windows versions

    * Unique compression methods

    * Multiple languages in one installer

    * Many features and checks for the target system

    * Custom dialogs and interfaces

    * Plug-in system

    * Support for web installation, file patching

    * Project integration, different releases and automatic builds

    * Easy and human readable file formats

    * and more...

Detail:

• Publisher: PortableApps.com (Zach Thibeau) and the NSIS team
  
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
• License: Free / Open Source

Download:

• NSIS portable 2.45 version here
• Latest NSIS portable here
  

Mozilla Thunderbird portable 2.0.0.23: real email, on the go™

Thunderbird makes e-mailing safer, faster, and easier with such features as intelligent spam filters, a built-in RSS reader, and quick search. Thunderbird was designed to prevent viruses and to stop junk mail so you can get back to reading your mail. Thunderbird provides effective tools for detecting junk mail. Its tools analyze your e-mail and identify those that are most likely to be junk. You can automatically have your junk mail deleted or you can put it in a folder you specify, just in case you like reading junk mail.

View your e-mail the way you want it. Access your e-mail with Thunderbird's new three-column view. Customize your toolbar, change its look with themes, and use Mail Views to quickly sort through your messages.

Detail:

• Publisher: PortableApps.com and Mozilla
• System Requirements: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7, Wine on Linux/UNIX
• License: Free / Open Source

Download:

• Mozilla Thunderbird portable version 2.0.0.23 here
• Latest Mozilla Thunderbird portable version here
  

Universal Extractor 1.6

Universal Extractor is a program do to exactly what it says: extract files from any type of archive, whether it's a simple zip file, an installation program, or even a Windows Installer (.msi) package.  This is still a work in progress (see details below), but so far it's proven quite useful and I feel others can also benefit from it.
I should stress that this application is not intended to be a general purpose archiving program.  It will never replace WinRAR, 7-Zip, etc.  What it will do is allow you to extract files from virtually any type of archive, regardless of source, compression method, etc.  The original motivation behind this project was that I wanted an easy, convenient way to extract files from installation packages, such as Inno Setup or Windows Installer packages, without pulling up a command line every time.  In the process I got a little carried away and ended up throwing in support for every kind of archive format I possibly could find.
Universal Extractor, like most of my Windows programs, is written in AutoIt, a powerful open source scripting language.  Universal Extractor itself, however, is just a front-end that uses many other programs to do the dirty work.

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Detail:

• Publisher: legroom.net
• System Requirements:  WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista
• License: Free / Open Source

Download:

• Universal Extractor portable 1.6 here
• Latest Universal Extractor portable  here

Universal Viewer 5.1.0

Universal Viewer is an advanced file viewer with wide range of formats supported. Implemented view modes and corresponding file formats are:

    * Text, Binary, Hex, Unicode: any files, of unlimited size (even 4Gb+ sizes are allowed)

    * RTF, UTF-8: RTF and UTF-8 encoded texts

    * Image: all general graphics formats: BMP JPG GIF PNG TGA TIFF... plus all formats supported by IrfanView/XnView external viewers

    * Multimedia: all formats supported by MS Windows Media Player: AVI MPG WMV MP3...

    * Internet: all formats supported by MS Internet Explorer: HTML PDF XML MHT...

    * Plugins: all formats supported by Total Commander Lister plugins

    * MS Office: all file types of MS Office (if installed): DOC DOCX XLS PPT...

    * Converters: some types can be viewed as plain text: DOC DOCX PDF PPT ODT...

Application is fully Unicode-compatible and can be integrated into Windows Explorer's context menu, so there is no problem to call it from anywhere in Explorer: right-click a file and select the "Universal Viewer" item. It can also be integrated into other popular file managers.

Generally, Universal Viewer is an application similar to Total Commander Lister. But comparing to Lister, it has the following highlights:

    * Built-in functions of several plugins: images, multimedia, webpages view

    * Support for multiple codepages: ANSI, OEM, EBCDIC, ISO etc.

    * Support for text converters for DOC, DOCX, ODT, PDF etc.

    * Support for user tools

    * Toolbar, status bar, other interface improvements

    * Auto-reloading of file on changing, "Follow tail" option

    * Displaying of line numbers

    * Displaying of non-printable characters

    * Combined Unicode/Hex mode (call Unicode mode twice)

    * Modern RegEx search library

    * Print preview

    * EXIF viewer

In the Lister plugins section you will find the list of rather good Lister plugins to use in conjunction with UV. These plugins are developed by 3rd parties and are not included into UV installation.

Detail:

• Publisher: UVViewSoft (uvviewsoft.com)
• System Requirements: All Windows
• License: the main application is freeware, the add-on "Navigation Panel" is shareware (requires registration)

Download:

• Universal Viewer portable version 5.1.0 here
• atest  Universal Viewer portable version here

Easy Image Modifier 1.2

Change the resolution, orientation, format and name of a single image or a collection in a comfortable and easy way.
Even advanced operations like removing meta informations, flipping, resizing unproportionally or sorting your images are easy to manage.
Furthermore the used drag'n'drop technique simplifies the selection of wanted files.
The key feature is the pure easiness. For example you can change the resolution just with some clicks.
Main Features
    * modify multiple images just with one single click
    * rename and sort in various ways
    * shrink and/or enlarge the resolution to a dimension or by a percentage
    * change the orientation: flip or rotate the images
    * optional changing of the file format
    * extra options for jpg files: remove meta infos, set compression
    * advanced resize options: ignore a dimension, resize unproportional
    * rename & replace or save at a self-chosen location
    * multilingualism: English, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish and Romanian
    * portable: extremely small, just one executable, no installation
    * free of charge!
Detail:

• Publisher: Kevin Schneider (inspire-soft.net)
• System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista
• License: Free

Download:

• Easy Image Modifier portable version 1.2 here
  
• Latest Easy Image Modifier version here
  

MP3 Quality Modifier 1.21: easy to change the bitrate of your mp3 music

MP3 Quality Modifier makes it really easy to change the bitrate of your mp3 music collection so that the filesize can be dramatically reduced. With this advantage it's possible to put more music on your mp3-player or just to save some disk space.
Even advanced tasks are possible: Downsampling, changing the used channels and so on. With the included presets it's simpler than ever before to manage all those settings.
Best of all is that - unlike other software - the ID3 tags (title, album pictures etc.) will be completely retained without any effort!
Main Features
    * change mp3 quality with just a few clicks
    * really easy and intuitive interface
    * retain all ID3 tags with ease
    * advanced options: detailed bitrate settings, sample frequency etc.
    * quality comparison: compare created files with original ones
    * multilingual: english, french, german, italian, portuguese, spanish
    * portable: extremely small, just one executable, no installation
    * free of charge!
Detail:

• Publisher: Kevin Schneider (inspire-soft.net)
• System Requirements: Win2K / WinXP / Vista
• License: Free

Download:

• MP3 Quality Modifier portable version 1.21 here
• Latest MP3 Quality Modifier portable version here

Mp3tag v2.44 : The universal Tag Editor and more ...

Mp3tag is a powerful and yet easy-to-use tool to edit metadata of common audio formats where it supports ID3v1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, iTunes MP4, WMA, Vorbis Comments and APE Tags.
It can rename files based on the tag information, replace characters or words in tags and filenames, import/export tag information, create playlists and more.
Mp3tag supports online database lookups from, e.g., Amazon, discogs, or freedb, allowing you to automatically gather proper tags and cover art for your music library.
Mp3tag supports the following audio formats:
    * Advanced Audio Coding (aac)
    * Free Lossless Audio Codec (flac)
    * Monkey's Audio (ape)
    * Mpeg Layer 3 (mp3)
    * MPEG-4 (mp4 / m4a / m4b / iTunes compatible)
    * Musepack (mpc)
    * Ogg Vorbis (ogg)
    * OptimFROG (ofr)
    * OptimFROG DualStream (ofs)
    * Speex (spx)
    * Tom's Audio Kompressor (tak)
    * True Audio (tta)
    * Windows Media Audio (wma)
    * WavPack (wv)
Main features:
Batch Tag Editing Write ID3v1.1, ID3v2.3, ID3v2.4, MP4, WMA, APEv2 Tags and Vorbis Comments to multiple files at once.
Support for Cover Art Download and add album covers to your files and make your library even more shiny.
Import from Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz Save typing and import tags from online databases like Amazon, discogs, freedb, MusicBrainz, and more.
Replace characters or words Replace strings in tags and filenames (with support for Regular Expressions).
Create Playlists automatically Create and manage playlists automatically while editing.
Rname files from tags Rename files based on the tag information and import tags from filenames.
Export to HTML, RTF, CSV Generate nice reports and lists of your collection based on user-defined templates.
Full Unicode Support User-interface and tagging are fully Unicode compliant.
Besides these main features Mp3tag offers a variety of other functions and features ranging ranging from batch export of embedded album covers, over support for iTunes-specific tags like media type or TV Show settings, to combining multiple actions into groups that can be applied with a single mouse click.

Detail:

 Publisher:Florian Heidenreich (mp3tag.de)

System Requirements: Windows XP/2003/Vista/200/ 7

License: Free

Download:

• Mp3tag v 2.44 here 
• Latest Mp3tag here
  

How to make MP3Tag Portable:
   1. Download the MP3Tag Setup Installer and install to the default path on your PC
   2. Copy the C:\Program Files\Mp3tag folder to your USB device
   3. Within the Mp3tag folder, create a blank file named mp3tag.cfg
   4. Click Mp3tag.exe to run the program
Note: You can uninstall Mp3tag from your PC once you have the portable version in place.