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Sumatra 1.0 Is A Blazing Fast Replacement For Adobe Reader

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: The Sumatra PDF Viewer is a tiny, open-source, portable, and most of all, lightning-quick replacement for the bloated Adobe Reader we’ve all learned to replace. It’s only a 1.2MB download, so why not give it a try? More »
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FavBackup Updates, Backs Up Multiple Firefox Profiles

8:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Portable browser backup utility FavBackup updates with loads of changes, including single-file backups, multiple profile support and a new Ribbon interface. More »
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XP Quick Fix Plus Repairs Common Windows XP Errors

9:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows XP: If your Windows XP installation is acting up, sometimes a fix is as simple as tweaking a registry key. Rather than muck about in your registry looking for it, use XP Quick Fix Plus to patch things up. More »
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uTorrent Portable Puts BitTorrent On A USB Drive

1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Windows (Portable): You’ve always been able to grab uTorrent’s program folder and drop it onto a thumb drive for portable BitTorrent handling. Now the PortableApps.com suite has packaged our favourite torrent client and integrated it with their application menu. More »
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Five Best Portable Apps Suites

3:00AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Once upon a time easy remote computing was a pipe dream, now people routinely carry gigs of data around on flash drivers smaller than a modest pack of chewing gum. Manage your apps and data with these portable application suites. More »
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Chrome Portable 3.0 Lets You Take Google’s Browser Anywhere

2:30AM Adam Pash | Windows only: PortableApps.com—the folks who convert just about every popular application to a portable one you can carry with you on your thumb drive—have just released Google Chrome Portable 3.0, the portable version of Chrome’s latest stable release. More »
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Multi Image Downloader Grabs Pics In Bulk From Google

10:30PM Kevin Purdy | Windows: Google Image Search is great at showing thumbnail results, but not so hot at making full-size originals easy to download. Free and portable app Multi Image Downloader is a two-step bulk downloader that’s really simple to use. More »
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DefaultBrowser Sets A Portable Browser To System Default

12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows XP only: DefaultBrowser is a simple utility that allows you to set a portable browser as your system default and easily reverse the process when necessary. More »
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CopyTransManager Is A Snappy And Light-Weight iTunes Alternative

12:30AM Jason Fitzpatrick | Windows only: If all you really want out of your iPod experience is the ability to load music, movies and podcasts onto your iPod without any bulk or bloat, portable and free CopyTransManager is a speedy iTunes-alternative. More »
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NirLauncher Is The Ultimate Flash Drive Toolkit

3:00AM The How-To Geek | Windows only: Portable application NirLauncher bundles 100+ of the best NirSoft utilities into a single launcher window, and even allows you to add your own utilities to make a killer flash drive toolkit. More »