Songbird will do practically anything iTunes can do, and then some. Sync your iPod, connect to a stand alone music device like the Squeezebox, or perhaps discover new, unsigned bands using Songbird's unique music browsing capabilities. Songbird is the only music player out there that allows you to "browser music" as you surf a webpage, linking to an audio file for a particular band. It's pretty powerful stuff.

Unlike iTunes, Windows Media Player or amaroK, Songbird works on all three major platforms. And because it is based on Firefox technology, the user can add any number of extensions to further the functionality of this already powerful music player.

Discover The Banshee! Great alternative to itunes!

Import, organize, play, and share your music using Banshee's simple, powerful interface.

Rip CDs, play and sync your iPod, create playlists, and burn audio and MP3 CDs. Most portable music devices are supported.

Banshee also has support for podcasting, smart playlists, music recommendations, and much more

Rockbox

Is an open source replacement firmware for mp3 players. It runs on a number of different models:

* Archos: Jukebox 5000, 6000, Studio, Recorder, FM Recorder, Recorder V2 and Ondio
* iriver: H100, H300 and H10 series
* Apple: iPod 4th gen (grayscale and color), 5th gen (Video), 1st gen Nano and Mini 1st/2nd gen (Nano 2nd gen and Video 5.5th gen are not supported)
* iAudio: X5 (including X5V and X5L)

*NOTE* please be aware that you will be replacing the original firmware within your unit!

YamiPod v1.8 better support for new iPods (nano4G and new classic)

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.

EphPod is a full-featured, easy-to-use Windows application that connects with Apple's iPod.

With a FireWire card and EphPod on a PC, it takes under 30 minutes to transfer 1,000 songs to an iPod. In addition, EphPod supports standard WinAmp (.M3U) playlists, includes powerful playlist creation features, and will synchronize an entire music collection with one click. It imports Microsoft Outlook contacts, in addition to allowing users to create and edit their own contacts. EphPod can also download the latest news, weather, e-books, and movie listings to an iPod.

Instant HandBrake is a slimmed down, no frills version of the popular open source video conversion utility, HandBrake.

Built from the development branch of the HandBrake source code, Instant HandBrake makes taking any DVD you own and placing it on your iPod easier than ever before. And of course, I should mention that Instant Handbrake can also convert your DVD Videos to a format Sony’s PSP can understand. When converting DVD Videos to your iPod, you can choose from the standard MPEG-4 format (perfect for pocket viewing), or if you plan on hooking your iPod up to a television, H.264 encoded video is also supported.

Nvu Portable - Editing on the go!

Nvu Portable is the easy-to-use Nvu web editor packaged with a PortableApps.com launcher as a portable app. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

Audacity Portable sound editing and recording to go!

Audacity Portable is the popular Audacity audio editor packaged as a portable app, so you can take your audio files along with everything you need to edit and record on the go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind

You can use Audacity to:

* Record live audio.
* Convert tapes and records into digital recordings or CDs.
* Edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and WAV sound files.
* Cut, copy, splice, and mix sounds together.
* Change the speed or pitch of a recording. and much, much more!

Portable Opera - Do you want to use all opera features mobile?
there are no unwanted effects on IE or other browsers
existing opera versions are also not affected
make no entries to the registry
leave no data on the guestcomputer

OpenOffice Portable - The complete office suite that's completely portable

OpenOffice.org Portable (formerly Portable OpenOffice.org) is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite -- including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database -- packaged as a portable app, so you can take all your documents and everything you need to work with them wherever you go

PortableApps Suite

PortableApps Suite™ is a collection of portable applications including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, sudoku game, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you're ready to go!

The Standard Edition includes the folowing software titles:

ClamWin Portable (antivirus), Mozilla Firefox -(web browser), Gaim Portable (instant messaging), OpenOffice Portable (office suite), Sudoku Portable (puzzle game), Mozilla Sunbird -(calendar/task manager) and Mozilla Thunderbird -(email client) and runs comfortably from a 512MB drive.

SIW Portable - System Information for Windows.

SIW performs computer configuration analysis and diagnostics. It gives detailed information about your computer properties and settings and detailed specs for:
Software (Operating System, Installed Programs and Hotfixes, Processes, Services, Product Keys, Serial Numbers, Users, Open Files System Uptime, Passwords hidden behind asterisks, Installed Codecs),
Hardware (Motherboard, BIOS, CPU, chipset, PCI/AGP, USB and ISA/PnP Devices, Memory, Video Card, Monitor, Disk Drives, CD/DVD Devices, SCSI Devices, S.M.A.R.T., Ports, Printers),
Network (Network Cards, Network Shares, currently active Network Connections),
As well as real-time monitors for CPU, Memory, Page File usage and Network Traffic.
SIW can create a report file (CSV, HTML, TXT or XML), and is able to run in batch mode.
SIW is a standalone tool that does not require installation - one less installed program on your PC as well the fact that you can run the program directly from a USB flash drive (Portable Freeware).
Platforms:
Microsoft Windows 98/Me/NT4/2000/XP/Server 2003/Media Center/Tablet PC/Windows 2003 Server R2/Windows Server 2003 x64/Windows XP x64/Vista/

The Portable Freeware Collection - An awesome collection of portable freeware!

Categories include:

Audio - CD/DVD Rom - Education - Folders/Files - Games - Graphics - Internet - Productivity - Programming - Publishing - Security - System - Video

Opera Mini - All your favorite Web sites now fit on your phone.

Check your email, check your friends' blogs, or just check out the daily dish.

Download Opera Mini to get any Web site, anywhere, any time.

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