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21 Mini Apps for Your Thumb Drive
Samuel Dean at Web Worker Daily has come up with two noteworthy lists of mini applications that you can run on your USB thumb drive. These to-go applications are free and take up little space – perfect for a keychain drive. The first list, 10 Free Mini Apps–Perfect for a USB Thumb Drive, includes programs which can be run on Windows:
- Qm – an email client
- Miranda -an IM client
- SpeakFreely – a VOIP app
- IrfanView – a graphics program
- FxFoto – a photo editor
- SG TCP Optimizer – a Web connection optimizer
- RemotePad – a text editor with FTP client
- ASFRecorder – a Windows Media streaming client
- Text2HTML – a text to HTML converter
- TinyResMeter – a system resources meter
The second list, Eleven Go-Anywhere Mini Applications for the Mac, is a listing for Mac users:
- iStumbler – a tool to find wireless signals
- Bean – a rich text editor
- Tofu – a text display customizer
- Adium – an IM client
- ViewIt – an image viewer
- ImageWell – an image editor
- Inquisitor – Spotlight for the Web
- iBackup – a tool for automatic backups
- Paintbrush – an image editor
- Maintenance - maintenence utility
- DoBeDo – a to-do list widget
Be sure and check out the full articles for Dean’s summaries of each application.
