Tag: portable

Instant WordPress: Easiest Way To Install WordPress On A PC

As a fan of WordPress (who isn’t?) I was excited to hear about Instant WordPress via this wpmu.org post. Instant WordPress is billed as a “complete standalone, portable WordPress development environment” and “The easiest and quickest way to install WordPress!” The 54MB download installs a portable and completely self contained copy of WordPress on a… Continue reading Instant WordPress: Easiest Way To Install WordPress On A PC

kuView: The Lightweight Image Viewer

kuView is a free and opensource lightweight image viewer which tries to aid the user in collecting and managing photo and image collections. The version tested for this review, admittedly a ‘pre’ (1.7pre [178]) release, is not bug free and not the fastest. For example the thumbnail panel (available via the Panel menu) is not… Continue reading kuView: The Lightweight Image Viewer

Freeware P2Do Is A Simple To Do And Task List

P2Do is a lightweight to do and task list that also provides a monthly calendar view in addition to its main list view. Tasks can be added and placed into categories and assigned tags or subcategories. After adding a task double clicking its entry in the list view will launch the window to add the… Continue reading Freeware P2Do Is A Simple To Do And Task List

Freeware SE-DesktopConstructor Customizes Your Desktop

SE-DesktopConstructor is a simple no-install tool that help you customize your desktop and add a few extras to it. SE-DesktopConstructor lets you to change your wallpaper in minute to day increments. A wallpaper folder comes with the program where one can use the default pictures or gradients that come with SE-DesktopConstructor, add one’s own pictures… Continue reading Freeware SE-DesktopConstructor Customizes Your Desktop

New Version News: Caderno and Dexpot

In this series of posts called New Version News I will highlight some of the newer versions of freeware downloads reviewed earlier on RGdot.com. Caderno, the notepad replacement and alternative reviewed here is at version 2.10 now. Some notable and new features include the following: Code folding. A better and more complete UTF (UTF-16) support.… Continue reading New Version News: Caderno and Dexpot

PlainText Is True To Its Name

PlainText is another alternative lightweight and no install software to make copying and pasting text more efficient and useful. In much the same way as PureText featured earlier on RGdot.com PlainText removes formatting from text copied from such sources as the web. This includes removing the likes of font sizes, colors, images, tables and borders.… Continue reading PlainText Is True To Its Name

KUninstall Is A Capable Alternative Uninstaller

KUninstall is described by its author as …is a small, quick and powerful uninstaller KUninstall runs on Windows 2000 and XP and provides a non-Microsoft alternative to the sometimes very slow add/remove programs feature of Windows. It is a 377KB unzipped portable download that offers an unzip and run way to list all the programs… Continue reading KUninstall Is A Capable Alternative Uninstaller

Depeche View Lets You Search For Text Fast

Depeche View is described by its author as fast search tool loads all text file content from a folder into memory Depeche View is capable of loading a very large amount of text in seconds and all into one window or instance of the application. In my usage I loaded over 100MB of text files… Continue reading Depeche View Lets You Search For Text Fast

Easily Gather And Collect Notes with CintaNotes

CintaNotes is a lightweight and potentially extremely useful note taking program. At a portable download of 344KB and an executable of 625KB CintaNotes is useful and small. Notes are collected via a configurable hot key (Ctrl+F12 by default), a simple paste or by opening the program and using the Add option. In the first two… Continue reading Easily Gather And Collect Notes with CintaNotes