Software Reviews

This program is a professional, yet easy to use tool for designing and retouching icons, cursors, animations and static images, and assembling icon libraries.
Why is it recommended for everyone?

Easy to use, lightweight, no installation (portable)
Multilanguage user interface (EN, CN, NL, FR, D, GR, HU, I, JP, KR, NO, PL, BR, RU, SP, ES, UA)
Help also [...]

The GIMP development team has made another bug-fix release in the stable GIMP 2.6 series. The NEWS file lists the changes in GIMP 2.6.2. The source can be downloaded from ftp.gimp.org. Binary packages for the various supported platforms should become available soon; please check the Downloads section.
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image [...]

The Movie library is a Java application that will help you keep your videos organized. It supports (can import) almost any tipe of video file format, drag and drop functions and a video converter.

If you are bored with IE or Firefox, then try this one! A small and easy  to use web browser that has some interesting features. At first, you  could see the improved tabbed browsing, the tabs are small thumbnails of  the sites you visit, with an autoselect feature as you move the mouse over them. [...]

Tired of your old iPod and want to try something new? No, we don’t advise you to get rid of your favorite player. Just try to enhance it with the world’s biggest source of information: Wikipedia. The giant repository of knowledge to your iPod. Yes, I know, it sounds great but you will have to [...]

TheWorld Browser is a tiny, fast, yet free, secure and powerful web browser. It features a tabbed interface with multi-threaded frame browser.
TheWorld Browser is uses [...]

Like most Open Source projects, part of a larger project known as AbiSource, which was started by the SourceGear Corporation. AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks and is one of the best free replacements of Word.
Abi Word is [...]

101 Screenshots is a screen capture program that includes an organizer and a image editor. The program is free. Let’s see the features:
The Graphics editor…….
Annotates and illustrates with text and clip art.
Combines two or more screen shots.
Crops any number of rectangular areas from a screen shot.
Reduces a screen shot with anti-aliasing. (Retains fine line detail)
Adds [...]

BPK is a FREE password manager. It helps you keep track of your most valuable data, your accounts for e-mails, forums or other places.
Features:

Good looking, easy to use interface
Total control over the passwords (add, remove, edit, move)

There are many options for a Windows user when it comes to free software that can be run from a portable drive such as an usb stick. Two of the best choices are already explained in the previous post. But, what are the options for a Mac user? Are there any portable applications he may [...]