Firefox PDW is a portable version of Firefox for Windows (but also works in Linux under Wine) which comes with lots of extensions installed by default for webmasters and web designers.

The idea behind it is that a website designer needs to install a LOT of Firefox add-ons and they sometimes don't install all of them even if they are useful simply because Firefox would become bloated and not very usable for browsing.

By using Firefox PDW, you can have a separate Firefox for all these extensions, without the need to install the extensions on your main Firefox installation. Also, since it's portable, it does not require installation and can run from an usb memory stick.

Portable Ubuntu Remix is an Ubuntu system running as a Windows application.

Why would you want to run Ubuntu as a Windows application? There are several reasons / situations when you would want to do that:

1. If you want to try out Ubuntu in a really simple way (it's even easier than with Wubi)
2. If you really need to run some Linux / Ubuntu applications in Windows
3. If you want to use Linux at work for instance, but you are not allowed to install Ubuntu.
4. And of course, since it's portable: you can basically take Portable Ubuntu Remix anywhere with you on a Pendrive, etc.

Unfortunately, Portable Ubuntu Remix only works on Windows 32bit.

Download Portable Ubuntu Remix

If you plan on using it, you'll be needing this info: The password for the pubuntu user is 123456.

Sumatra PDF Viewer is a lightweight, very quick alternative to Adobe Reader for Windows. The open source application is just 1.2 MB (Adobe Reader takes up 199 MB after installation) in size and uses about 11 MB of RAM on my system (compared to 55 MB for Adobe Reader - tested on a single page PDF):

The focus is to build a small and simple program that starts up fast and offers basic features needed for comfortable on-screen viewing of PDF files. Simplicity and elegance have higher priority than additional features.

Sumatra PDF Viewer is not a fully-featured application, but it's perfect for quickly opening a PDF, even on an old computer.

Download Sumatra PDF

[via lifehacker]

MobaPhoto is a Windows freeware app (which also comes in a portable version) that allows you to create some professional looking photo galleries for your webpage. MobaPhoto also allows you to resize, crop or correct red-eyes of all your pictures very easily.

Fake antivirus software, also called as rogue security software, is a form of computer malware that deceives or misleads users into paying for the fake or simulated removal of malware. Rogue security software, in recent years, has become a growing and serious security threat in desktop computing.

Basically, such an application poses as an antivirus software, when it's actually a virus itself. Removing such fake antivirus malware is quite hard and annoying.

An application called Remove Fake Antivirus removes 32 such fake antivirus apps. It's a very easy to use malware removal software which requires very little interaction. Click the start button and then answer yes to the prompt you see above, and that's about it. Just sit back and watch 'Remove Fake Antivirus' work. It can uproot many of the rogues I confront on a daily basis, including:

We covered how to create an Ubuntu live USB from Windows, Linux and MacOSX and how to actually install Ubuntu on an USB stick from Windows and in this post, we'll talk about about an application for installing Ubuntu on any removable media such as pen, thumb, SD, MMC or even phones with USB Mass Storage support FROM Ubuntu (actually it works for other Linux distributions too) - meaning that the program used for installing Ubuntu onto the USB must be run from within Ubuntu (Want to install it from Windows? See the links above).

By installing Ubuntu on an USB memory stick or any other removable media, Ubuntu will remember the changes you make across reboots, and boot other operating systems so you can run your favorite Linux distribution with your favorite settings, anywhere in the world. We can easly achieve this using Portable Linux.

PortableApps.com has released the PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 1, making it easier than ever to carry your favorite software with you. This test release adds a number of features including theme switching, custom themes, automatic starting of apps, favorites, app hiding, better performance and more. And, as always, it's all open source and completely free.

What's new:

# Theme Switching
# Transparency
# Favorites
# Run / Run As Admin
# App Load Progress Bar / Faster Menu Load
# Uninstall Apps
# Autorun Apps
# Multimonitor Support
# Check Drive for Errors
# Improved Wine Support
# Hide Desktop Icons

For a full list of changes, visit the announcement.

Download PortableApps.com 2.0 Beta 1

MojoPac allows you to take your entire PC on any storage device such as an iPod or USB drive. When you plugin your USB for instance with MojoPac into any PC, you have access to all your applications such as MS Office, Firefox, IM and even games such as World of Warcraft.

MojoPac is portable, private and personal and works on any Windows XP computer. ALso, it will not affect in any way the computer it's connected to and also the computer will not affect your MojoPac.

To use it you must download MojoPak and install it to your device, then install and customize your applications.

Download MojoPac.