SoftwareList

Package: WA2L/WinTools 1.2.08
Section: General Commands (1)
Updated: 14 September 2024
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NAME

SoftwareList - list of additional recommended free application-software and tools

 

SYNOPSIS

SoftwareList

 

AVAILABILITY

WA2L/WinTools

 

DESCRIPTION

This is a list of additional free software and tools that I find useful but that is (mostly) not also bundled with WA2L/WinTools (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wa2l-wintools/).

*** IMPORTANT ***

 

 You need to check for yourself if a particular software in this 
list is still free.
 

 Of course, you need to judge for yourself whether it is safe 
for you to use any of the tools mentioned.
 

I prefer to install and use portable software also on the PC or notebook.

When migrating portable tools from an old machine to a new one or to a 2nd machine the "install" process is a simple file copy what saves a lot of time and hassle in comparison to installing everything newly from CD/DVD/Internet-Download and to go thru all setup procedures and re-apply all settings made during setup and while using the software.

Almost no software listed here needs administrator rights during installation or to run.

The software list is divided into fields of usage, as: DEVELOPMENT, SCIENCE, SYSTEMTOOLS, UTILITIES, PLAYERS, GRAPHICS, PDF UTILITIES, TEXTEDITORS, OFFICE, INTERNET, CONNECTIONS and INFORMATION MANAGERS.

 

START PORTABLE TOOLS PORTABLE

To start portable tools using command line and portable graphical start menus, you can install the portable WA2L/WinTools package from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wa2l-wintools/.

Use pstart(1) the portable start menu, qsel(1) the portable application launcher and hotkeyp(1) the hotkey manager to start portable tools identically wherever you use it.

To start all portable tools from the console(1m), the portable start menu pstart(1), the portable application launcher qsel(1), the hotkey manager hotkeyp(1) and from 'Desktop' icons by using the same application name in all tools, use the run(1) command.

Doing this you need only to change a single file (run.cfg) when a (portable) tool executable-name (*.exe) changes or a new version is installed into a new directory. The new version then will be started from all possibilities (Console, PStart, HotkeyP, Qsel, and the 'Desktop') without the need of additional changes.

To automatically save and later restore of 'Desktop' icons and it's locations, the desktopicon(1) command can be used.
 

 

DEVELOPMENT

Code::Blocks
The open source, cross platform, free C, C++ and Fortran IDE (http://www.codeblocks.org, http://www.codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries/).

Code::Blocks is a free C, C++ and Fortran IDE built to meet the most demanding needs of its users. It is designed to be very extensible and fully configurable.

Finally, an IDE with all the features you need, having a consistent look, feel and operation across platforms.

Built around a plugin framework, Code::Blocks can be extended with plugins. Any kind of functionality can be added by installing/coding a plugin. For instance, compiling and debugging functionality is already provided by plugins [74].

Download the MinGW-w64 GCC (GNU Compile Collection) compilers and utilities (gcc, g++, make...) from http://mingw-w64.org/, https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases to be used with Code::Blocks.

MinGW-w64 GCC for Windows 64 & 32 bits
by mingw-w64.org contributors (http://mingw-w64.org/, https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases).

Mingw-w64 is an advancement of the original mingw.org project, created to support the GCC compiler on Windows systems. It has forked it in 2007 in order to provide support for 64 bits and new APIs. It has since then gained widespread use and distribution.

The development and community are very active and welcoming with new contributors every month and simple installers [75].

Sublime Text
by Sublime HQ Pty Ltd, Woollahra, Sydney (http://www.sublimetext.com/, http://www.sublimetext.com/3 → portable version)

A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose [76].

A fast and easy to use language sensitive editor.

This editor can be used for example to edit the code before it is compiled using the MinGW-w64 GCC for Windows compiler when you don't want to spend the time to understand an IDE for c/c++, but get a fast start coding in an assisted way.

DB Browser for SQLite
Portable database browser for SQLite databases by sqlitebrowser development team (https://github.com/sqlitebrowser, https://portableapps.com/apps/development/sqlite_database_browser_portable/).

DB Browser for SQLite Portable (formerly SQLite Database Browser) is a visual tool used to create, design and edit database files compatible with SQLite [47].

HINT: some similar functionality is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the sqlite-gui(1) command thru the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer', therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the DB Browser for SQLite package separately.

ERD Concepts (Database Modeling)
by CodeXpressions, Polderij ICT (https://www.erdconcepts.com, https://www.erdconcepts.com/download.html).

ERD Concepts is a database designer and sql query tool for all major databases. Making a complete and visually attractive Entity Relationship Diagram (ERD) becomes a breeze, even for less experienced users. The software will guide you during your design efforts with easy to follow steps (https://www.erdconcepts.com/products.html).

Additionally, ERD Concepts will support your daily development tasks with SQL generation and providing detailed database insights.

ERD Concepts was a commercial product whose development is discontinued (06.06.2019) and now is provided for free under the MIT License [91].

HxD Hex Editor
Portable Hex editor for Windows by Mael Hoerz <support@mh-nexus.de> (https://mh-nexus.de/en/downloads.php?product=HxD20).

HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.

Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.

Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations [66].

HINT: HxD Hex Editor is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the HxD Hex Editor package separately.

Resource Hacker
Portable resource hacker for Windows by Agnus Johnson <awj1958@gmail.com> (http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/).

Resource Hacker™ has been designed to be the complete resource editing tool: compiling, viewing, de-compiling and recompiling resources for both 32bit and 64bit Windows executables. Resource Hacker™ can open any type of Windows executable (*.exe, *.dll, *.scr, *.mui etc) so that individual resources can be added modified or deleted within these files. Resource Hacker™ can create and compile resource script files (*.rc), and edit resource files (*.res) too [49].

 

SCIENCE

Gnuplot
by Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others (http://www.gnuplot.info).

Gnuplot is a portable command-line driven graphing utility for Linux, OS/2, MS Windows, OSX, VMS, and many other platforms. It was originally created to allow scientists and students to visualize mathematical functions and data interactively, but has grown to support many non-interactive uses such as web scripting. It is also used as a plotting engine by third-party applications like Octave. Gnuplot has been supported and under active development since 1986 [1].

Octave
by John W. Eaton and others (http://www.octave.org).

Octave is a software featuring a high-level programming language, primarily intended for numerical computations. Octave helps in solving linear and nonlinear problems numerically, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab and is one of the major free alternatives to it [2].

Overleaf
by Writelatex Limited (https://www.overleaf.com/).

Overleaf is an online LaTeX and Rich Text collaborative writing and publishing tool that makes the whole process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents much quicker and easier [51].

What I like about Overleaf is, that you don't have to install LaTeX on your local machine, therefore you don't have to care about installing and updating the various LaTeX packages. The editing is done directly in the web browser and you also get an instant preview of your text. The whole work can be downloaded as *.zip file.

 

SYSTEMTOOLS

7-PDF
by 7-PDF (http://www.7-pdf.de/en/products/pdf-printer).

Free PDF Printer (as Community Edition only) that allows you to print or create PDF documents from any Windows application.
This program is FREEWARE with limitations, which means that there is a FREE COMMUNITY VERSION for personal and commercial use up to 10 installations [53].

HINT: 7-PDF needs administrator rights to install.

Stinger
by McAfee Inc. (http://vil.nai.com/vil/stinger/default.aspx).

McAfee Stinger is a standalone utility used to detect and remove specific viruses. It is not a substitute for full anti-virus protection, but a specialized tool to assist administrators and users when dealing with an infected system [4].

HINT: Stinger needs administrator rights to run.

UltraDefrag
by UltraDefrag Development Team (http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html, http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html?download).

UltraDefrag is an open source disk de-fragment utility for Windows. It can quickly de-fragment everything including files which are usually locked by Windows. For instance, UltraDefrag can re-join paging and hibernation files [3].

Previous of shrinking a hard-disk partition I recommend to run this software instead of the built in de-fragmenting program of Windows™ due to the fact that UltraDefrag can move all sectors out of the way and a reduction of the partition is finally successful. A handy feature is also to shut down the computer after a often time consuming de-fragmenting/optimization run.

HINT: UltraDefrag needs administrator rights to run.

WMI Explorer
by KS-Soft, Alexander Kozlov <support@ks-soft.net> (http://www.ks-soft.net).

WMI Explorer allows you to explore the full set of WMI management classes, objects and their properties, browse through objects and settings on remote machines and execute any WQL query and view the result set. WMI Explorer can be started as an independent application or it can be launched by HostMonitor [6].

 

UTILITIES

7-Zip
by Igor Pavlov (https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable).

7-Zip is an utility to work with compressed 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR files and more.

HINT: 7-Zip is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the 7-Zip package separately.

Compare It!
by Grig Software <support@grigsoftware.com> (http://www.grigsoft.com).

Compare It! makes your file compare and file merge tasks even easier! With multitude of new features you can quickly visually identify differences between files, merge them with single click, and print/publish your work without any problems [14].

HINT: Compare IT is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the Compare IT package separately.

Eraser
by Garrett Trant (http://heidi.ie/eraser/, https://portableapps.com/apps/security/eraser-portable).

Eraser is an advanced security tool for Windows™ which allows you to completely remove sensitive data from your hard drive by overwriting it several times with carefully selected patterns [12].

HINT: similar functionality (multiple overwriting of files before deleting it) is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the dpwiper(1) command thru the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer', therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the Eraser package separately.

ExamDiff
Visual file comparison tool by PrestoSoft LLC (http://www.prestosoft.com/examdiff/free/).

ExamDiff is a freeware Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/2003/Vista/7/2008 tool for visual file comparison. It is quick and very simple to use, and has a number of convenient features that many users have been asking for a long time from a file comparison tool [13].

HINT: similar functionality is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the compareit(1) command. Therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the ExamDiff package separately.

OpenJDK Portable
by OpenLogic (https://www.openlogic.com/openjdk-downloads).

OpenLogic provides free, quarterly builds of OpenJDK 8, OpenJDK 11, and OpenJDK 17 for Linux, Windows, and MacOS.

When downloading the *.zip package of the JDK (Java Development Kit, to develop Java programs) or JRE (Java Runtime Environment, to run Java programs) you can carry the Java environment on your portable device [89].

It is possible to install multiple Java versions in parallel if certain applications require distinct Java versions

Recuva
Recover Deleted Files by Piriform Ltd. (https://www.piriform.com/recuva, http://www.piriform.com/recuva/download/portable).

Recuva can recover pictures, music, documents, videos, emails or any other file type you've lost. And it can recover from any rewriteable media you have: memory cards, external hard drives, USB sticks and more!

Unlike most file recovery tools, Recuva can recover files from damaged or newly formatted drives. Greater flexibility means greater chance of recovery [6].

HINT: Recuva needs administrator rights to run efficiently.

Synchronize IT
by Grig Software (http://www.grigsoft.com).

Do you have to synchronize data between home and office or desktop and notebook computers? With Synchronize It! you can easily see what have changed in your folders and transfer changes with single mouse click [17].

HINT: Synchronize IT is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the Synchronize IT package separately.

 

PLAYERS

Audacity
by Audacity Development Team (https://portableapps.com/apps/music_video/audacity_portable).

Audacity™ is free, open source, cross-platform audio software for multi-track recording and editing [26].

CamStudio
is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs) [21].

Exact Audio Copy (EAC)
by Andre Wiethoff (http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/, http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/index.php/resources/download/).

Exact Audio Copy is a so called audio grabber for audio CDs using standard CD and DVD-ROM drives.

The main differences between EAC and most other audio grabbers are: It is free (for non-commercial purposes); it works with a technology, which reads audio CDs almost perfectly. If there are any errors that can't be corrected, it will tell you on which time position the (possible) distortion occurred, so you could easily control it with e.g. the media player

With other audio grabbers you usually need to listen to every grabbed wave because they only do jitter correction. Scratched CDs read on CD-ROM drives often produce distortions. But listening to every extracted audio track is a waste of time. Exact Audio Copy conquer these problems by making use of several technologies like multi-reading with verify and AccurateRip [55].

To convert files to the MP3 format using Exact Audio Copy you need to download LAME (https://github.com/Chocobo1/lame_win32-build/releases).

When executing EAC the first time, you then have to point to the lame.exe you downloaded during the execution of the 'Configuration Wizard...' in the EAC menu. CamStudio by RenderSoft and CamStudio Group (https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/camstudio_portable).

Light Alloy
by the Vortex Team (http://light-alloy.verona.im/download/).

Light Alloy is a free, highly customizable multimedia player for Windows™. It was optimized to start as fast as possible and pre-tuned for minimum system resource usage.

Besides of his support for all popular multimedia formats, it also has its advanced features such as: fast video rewind, load subtitles, bookmarks in the list or timeline, preview window on the timeline; selection of audio tracks and subtitles in multilingual films, minimize to tray, infrared remote control; adjust the brightness/contrast/saturation of the image, supports multimedia keyboards and has full support for DVD/Blu-ray (except for BD menus) and MKV/OGM/MP4 formats; built-in video/audio codecs (although you can choose to use other system codecs and you can configure audio and video filters); custom codecs, full support for subtitles; WinLIRC support (remote control), configurable playback speed, aspect ratio alignment, make and save screenshots (including WebP/WebP-LL formats); independent video settings for each file (brightness, contrast, saturation, subtitle, volume) keep current playing position and resume later [70].

MusicBee
by Steven Mayall (https://getmusicbee.com/downloads/).

MusicBee makes it easy to manage, find, and play music files on your computer. MusicBee also supports podcasts, web radio stations and SoundCloud integration [69].

VideoPad Video Editor
by NCH Software (http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html).

Designed to be intuitive, VideoPad is a fully featured video editor for creating professional quality videos in minutes. Drag and drop video clips for easy video editing. Apply effects and transitions, adjust video speed and more. One of the fastest video stream processors on the market.

The free video editor version is available for non-commercial use [25].

 

GRAPHICS

AutoStitch
by University of British Columbia, (http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html).

The human visual system has a field of view of around 135 x 200 degrees, but a typical camera has a field of view of only 35 x 50 degrees. Panoramic image mosaicing works by taking lots of pictures from an ordinary camera, and stitching them together to form a composite image with a much larger field of view.

AutoStitch takes a step forward in panoramic image stitching by automatically recognizing matching images. This allows entire panoramas to be constructed with no user input whatsoever. AutoStitch is incredibly simple to use! Just select a set of photos, and AutoStitch does the rest: digital photos in, panoramas out [48].

draw.io
by JGraph Ltd (https://www.draw.io/).

draw.io is an open platform to create and share diagrams.

draw.io online (https://www.draw.io/) is a free-to-license web application for everyone. It is completely free to use for any purpose, there is no premium pay-for functionality, watermarking, or other limitations. You own the content you produce with draw.io and may use it for any purpose, including commercially

The desktop versions (https://about.draw.io/integrations/#integrations_offline) are the best option if you are not always online. Again, all versions are free and open source [68].

Fotografix
by L. Madhaven (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/fotografix_portable).

Fotografix is a lightweight image editor with support for many common features as well as a few advanced ones [29].

Gimp
by 'The GIMP Team' (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable).

The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter and more [46].

Greenfish Icon Editor
by Balazs Szalkai (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/greenfish-icon-editor-pro-portable).

Greenfish Ico Editor is a powerful icon, cursor, animation and icon library editor. Layer support with advanced selection handling makes it a really professional and unique freeware tool for designing small pixel graphic images. GFIE offers high-quality filters like Bevel, Drop Shadow and Glow; supports editing animated cursors and managing icon libraries. It's lightweight, with a clean, customizable, multi-language user interface making it really easy to learn and use [28].

Inkscape
by inkscape.org (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/inkscape_portable).

Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw, or Xara X, using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format.

Inkscape supports many advanced SVG features (markers, clones, alpha blending, etc.) and great care is taken in designing a streamlined interface. It is very easy to edit nodes, perform complex path operations, trace bitmaps and much more. We also aim to maintain a thriving user and developer community by using open, community-oriented development [31].

JPEG View
by David Kleiner (https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/jpegview_portable).

JPEG View is a lean, fast and highly configurable viewer for JPEG, BMP, PNG, WEBP, TGA, GIF and TIFF images with a minimal GUI. Basic on-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing adjusting typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, rotation, perspective, contrast and local under-/overexposure [30].

HINT: JPEG View is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the JPEG View package separately.

Verkleinerer
by Christian Gleinser (http://verkleinerer.drwuro.com/).

Jeder, der eine Digitalkamera hat, kennt das Problem: Man kopiert seine Bilder auf die Festplatte und will ein paar davon gerne einem Freund mailen. Leider haben die Bilder eine Groesse von 2560x2048 oder aehnlich, dabei wuerden 640x480 oder 320x240 für die eMail vollkommen ausreichen.

Um nun nicht alle Bilder einzeln verkleinern zu muessen, gibt es dieses Tool. Man startet es, sucht einfach den Ordner aus, gibt die Endgroesse an (wahlweise in Pixeln oder in Prozent), klickt auf Start, und lehnt sich zurueck. Und wenige Augenblicke spaeter befinden sich in einem Unterordner alle Bilder in der neuen Groesse. Selbstverstaendlich lassen sich die Bilder auf die gleiche Weise auch vergroessern [23].

XMind
by XMind Ltd. (https://xmind.app/download/xmind8/).

XMind 8 Update 9 is a free and easy to use mind mapping software with many features.

 

PDF UTILITIES

PDF Metadata Edit
by Zaro (https://github.com/zaro/pdf-metadata-editor/, https://github.com/zaro/pdf-metadata-editor/zipball/master).

Edit meta data of PDF files. Doing this, your PDF file information is displayed correctly also in eBook readers.

PDF Scissors
by Abdullah Al Mazed (Gagan) (https://sites.google.com/site/pdfscissors/).

In short, It's a tool to crop PDFs. Objective to create this, was to read PDF files (specially the scanned ones) easily in eBook readers, like Kindle [24].

PDFTK Builder
by Angus Johnson (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/pdftk_builder_portable).

With the PDFTK Builder utility you can split PDF files, rotate pages of a PDF document, rearrange pages and concatenate PDF files.

HINT: similar functionality (select pages, rotate pages, concatenate PDF files) is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package thru the 'Send To' context menu in 'Windows Explorer' by the pdfrotate (1) and pdfconcatenate (1) commands.

PDFTK Builder is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the PDFTK Builder package separately.

PDF-XChange Viewer
by Tracker Software Products Ltd. (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/pdf-xchange-portable).

PDF-XChange Viewer is a fast PDF viewer which allows also some editing of the PDF document. A great feature is also to search for text within multiple PDF documents residing in folders.

SumatraPDF
by Krzysztof Kowalczyk (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/sumatra_pdf_portable).

Sumatra PDF is a free PDF, eBook (ePub, Mobi), XPS, DjVu, CHM, Comic Book (CBZ and CBR) reader for Windows. Sumatra PDF is powerful, small, portable and starts up very fast. Simplicity of the user interface has a high priority [6].

HINT: Sumatra PDF is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the Sumatra PDF package separately.

 

TEXTEDITORS

Calibre
by Kovid Goyal (https://calibre-ebook.com/download_portable).

Calibre is a powerful and easy to use e-book manager. Users say it's outstanding and a must-have. It'll allow you to do nearly everything and it takes things a step beyond normal e-book software.

It's also completely free and open source and great for both casual users and computer experts [56].

Q10
by Baara Estudio (http://www.baara.com/q10/).

Q10 is a distraction-free editor employing minimalist presentation (GUI) and lightweight system requirements to provide a clutter-free but feature-capable work environment [42].

HINT: Q10 is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the Q10 package separately.

 

OFFICE

LibreOffice
by libreoffice.org (https://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable).

LibreOffice is a free and open source office suite, a project of The Document Foundation. It was forked from OpenOffice.org in 2010, which was an open-sourced version of the earlier StarOffice. The LibreOffice suite comprises programs for word processing, the creation and editing of spreadsheets, slide-shows, diagrams and drawings, working with databases, and composing mathematical formulae [44].

WPS Office
by Kingsoft Software (http://www.kingsoftstore.com/download-office/index, http://www.kingsoftstore.com/software/kingsoft-office-freeware).

WPS Office (an acronym for Writer, Presentation and Spreadsheets, previously known as Kingsoft Office) is an office suite for Microsoft Windows™, Linux, iOS and Android OS, developed by Zhuhai-based Chinese software developer Kingsoft. WPS Office is a suite of software which is made up of three primary components: WPS Writer, WPS Presentation, and WPS Spreadsheet [43].

 

INTERNET

Opera
by Opera Norway (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/opera_portable).

Opera is a fast and free browser with advanced bookmarking, search, and personalizing options. [71].

FireFox
by Mozilla Foundation (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable).

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including pop-up-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more [40].

Browser Add-Ons
Add-Ons are small programs that add functionality to the web browser.

To add an Add-On to the web browser double click the provided link below and press the [ + Add to <Web-Browser> ] Add button provided on the opened Add-Ons web page.

The following Add-Ons turned out to be quite useful on a long term view:

Adguard AdBlocker
by Adguard Software Ltd.

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adguard-adblocker/
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/adguard/

Unmatched adblock extension against advertising and pop-ups. Blocks ads on Facebook, Youtube and all other websites.

AdGuard ad blocker effectively blocks all types of advertising on all web pages, even on Facebook, YouTube, and others [58].

Close to the Right
by asukaze / sijera

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/close-right-tabs-button/ (asukaze)
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/close-to-the-right/ (sijera)

Close tabs right of the current tab. Opera has the feature built-in, this extension is for those who prefer one-click solution [86].

I don't care about cookies
by Kiko

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/i-dont-care-about-cookies/

Get rid of annoying cookie warnings from almost all 'infected' websites!

The EU regulations require that any website using cookies must get user's permission before installing them. These warnings appear on most websites until the visitor agrees with the website's terms and conditions. Imagine how irritating that becomes when you surf anonymously or if you delete cookies automatically every time you close the browser.

This add-on will remove these annoying cookie warnings from almost all websites! You can report any website which still warns you about cookies: make a right click and choose 'Report a cookie warning' from the menu [67].

JSON Lite
by lauri-rooden

Firefox: 'Json viewer' is browser integrated
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/json-lite/

Features: Format JSON and JSONP responses, Select and format JSON on every page, Collapsible arrays, objects and long values, Collapse all childs with Ctrl(Command) + Click, Collapse property also on all sibling items with Alt(Option) + Click, Count items and properties in a collection, Show collection sizes, Do its best to show large (10MB+) JSON files, Do its best to show invalid JSON files, Do not sort objects with numeric keys, Do not round large numbers, "Save as..." saves the original JSON document, Select and copy a working JSON from the formatted JSON [82].

View Page Source
by Carlos Jeurissen

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-source-code/
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/view-page-source/

Easily view the page source with the click of a button.

This also enables to easily view the source of pages that use the context menu for other purposes then the browser-own popup menu that often provides the 'View Page source' menu point. This without the need to manually prepend 'view-source:' to the URL [90].

Meta tags - SEO Tool
by Abhishek Jain

Firefox: 'Meta view' is browser integrated (use: Tools → Page Info)
Opera:   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meta-tags-seo-tool/miihmfdpfdioogfbfofbnagblnjbjomg

This extension will list all the meta tags in a webpage.

It makes all meta tags within your reach in a single click. This will help you by listing all the meta tags used within a webpage. Click the extension icon to see what meta tags has been set in the page [84].

Print to PDF
by moris

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-document/
Opera:   'Save as PDF' is browser integrated

Easily print any page to PDF with just one click!

Print to PDF is a simple addon that help you print a desired website to a PDF document with just one click.
Simply add this extension to your browser and then click on the print button in the toolbar. A "save-as" dialog box will appear to guide you through the print procedure. This addon also adds a - Print to PDF - item to the mouse right-click (context-menu). Therefore, clicking on either the toolbar button or context-menu item will print the active tab's content to a PDF document [57].

Video DownloadHelper
by mig

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/
Opera:   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-downloadhelper/lmjnegcaeklhafolokijcfjliaokphfk

The easy way to download and convert Web videos from hundreds of YouTube-like sites.

Video DownloadHelper is the most complete tool to extract videos and image files from Web sites and save them to your hard drive. Just surf the Web as you are used to, when DownloadHelper detects it can do something for you, the toolbar icon highlights and a menu allows you to download files by simply clicking an item.

For instance, if you go to a YouTube page, you'll be able to download the video directly on your file system. It also works with most video sites like DailyMotion, Facebook, Periscope, Vimeo, Twitch, Liveleak, Vine, UStream, Fox, Bloomberg, RAI, France 2-3, Break, Metacafe and thousands others [60].

The Opera extension from the Google Chrome Web Store does not provide the functionality to download videos from YouTube. Use the YouTube Video Downloader extension to do so.

YouTube Video Downloader
by Addoncrop

Firefox: use: Video DownloadHelper
Opera:   https://addoncrop.com/youtube-video-downloader-6/

The Addoncrop YouTube downloader is a specially designed tool that fulfills the downloading requirements of the billions of YouTube users worldwide in all possible aspects. The core quality of the extension is that it will never redirect you to any third party websites [85].

X-notifier (for Gmail,Hotmail,Yahoo,AOL ...)
by Byungwook Kang

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xnotifier/
Opera:   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/x-notifier-for-gmailhotma/cdfjbkbddpfnoplfhceolpopfoepleco

Notifier for gmail, yahoo, hotmail, aol and more webmails. X-notifier (aka WebMail Notifier) checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails... Supports : gmail, yahoo, hotmail, POP3/IMAP, facebook, twitter and more [61].

Proxy SwitchyOmega
by FelisCatus

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchyomega/
Opera:   https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchyomega/padekgcemlokbadohgkifijomclgjgif

Manage and switch between multiple proxies quickly & easily.

Changing proxy settings has never been so convenient. Think SwitchyOmega as a modern version of the "Proxy Settings" dialog, designed to be simpler, quicker and more powerful, specially optimized for your browser.

No more digging through the advanced section in browser settings. No repeated filling and clearing the proxy config dialog of your operating system. Just tell SwitchyOmega about all your proxies, and enjoy switching with one click on the popup menu. You can also teach Auto Switch to use the right proxy for the right website automatically [78].

Custom UserAgent String
by linderdorothy

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/custom-user-agent-revived/
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/custom-useragent-string/

Custom UserAgent String is an add-on that enables you to easily change your browsers user-agent by adding site-specific user-agent strings from the Options page [80].

Remove German Gender Language
by Motsi Weech

Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/remove-german-gender-language/
Opera:   https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/remove-german-gender-language/

Diese Erweiterung fuer Opera entfernt deutsche 'Gender-Sprache' aus Webseiten. Viele Spezialfaelle werden beruecksichtigt. Dadurch werden deutschsprachige Webseiten besser lesbar dargestellt [88].

Opera Dictionaries
Dictionaries in FireFox help while entering text into web forms (as when writing E-Mails in a Web-Mail) in a certain language. Wrong spelled words are underlined red. The active spell schecking language is defined thru the context menu when doing a right click on a text field.

Language
by Opera Browser

Spell checking languages in Opera are browser integrated but need to be activated and configured to your liking in:

Settings → Features → Preferred languages
and
Settings → Features → Spell check

FireFox Dictionaries
Dictionaries in FireFox help while entering text into web forms (as when writing E-Mails in a Web-Mail) in a certain language. Wrong spelled words are underlined red. The active spell schecking language is defined thru the context menu when doing a right click on a text field.

German dictionary (de_CH)
by Bjoern Jacke (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_ch-for-sp/).

German dictionary igerman98 (de_CH, Switzerland), for Firefox, Thunderbird und Seamonkey.

Dies ist das fuer Firefox 3, Thunderbird 3, Seamonkey 2 und neuere Versionen optimierte Rechtschreib-Wörterbuch fuer Schweizer Deutsch (de-CH, Schweiz, "neue" Rechtschreibnung). Es ist die Hunspell-Version des igerman98-Woerterbuchs. Hunspell-Woerterbücher sind nicht kompatibel mit Myspell, weshalb dieses Woerterbuch ausschliesslich mit den neueren Mozilla-Versionen funktioniert [64].

Spanish (Venezuela) spell check dictionary
by Christian Gonzalez (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/diccionario-espa%C3%B1ol-venezuela/).

Diccionario en espanol para Venezuela: Corrector Ortografico (Spell Checker); Tesauro de Sinonimos (Thesaurus); Separacion Silabica (Hyphenation).
Hecho en Venezuela [63].

United States English Spellchecker
by jooliaan (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/united-states-english-spellche/).

United States English Spellchecker for Firefox, Thunderbird and SeaMonkey by Kevin Atkinson and Geoff Kuenning [65].

Thunderbird
by Mozilla Foundation (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable).

Mozilla Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that's easy to use. It has lots of great features including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more. Plus, the portable version leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on, so you can take your email and address book with you wherever you go [39].

 

CONNECTIONS

FileZilla
by Tim Kosse (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/filezilla_portable).

FileZilla is a fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface [37].

HINT: similar functionality is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the winscp(1) command. Therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the FileZilla package separately.

MobaXterm Personal Edition
by Mobatek (http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net, http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/download-home-edition.html).

Free X server for Windows with tabbed SSH terminal, telnet, RDP, VNC, Xdmcp, Mosh and X11-forwarding [35].

OpenSSH Server
by PowerShell Team (https://github.com/PowerShell/Win32-OpenSSH/releases).

OpenSSH server port for Windows.

See installation instructions on https://winscp.net/eng/docs/guide_windows_openssh_server .

PuTTY
by Simon Tatham (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable).

PuTTY is a telnet and SSH client so you can connect to remote computers and servers [34].

HINT: PuTTY is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the PuTTY package separately.

TeamViewer
by TeamViewer (https://dl-cdn.teamviewer.com/download/version_12x/TeamViewerPortable.zip, https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/teamviewer_portable).

TeamViewer is a remote PC support/control and screen-sharing tool. You can remote control a partner's desktop to give online assistance, or you can show your screen to a customer without worrying about firewalls, IP addresses and NAT [33].

HINT: identical functionality is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the anydesk(1) command. Therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the TeamViewer package separately.

WinSCP
by Martion Prikryl (https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/winscp_portable).

WinSCP is a free SFTP and FTP client for Windows, and a multi-functional tool that improves your productivity. WinSCP copies files between and remote computers using multiple protocols: FTP, FTPS, SCP, SFTP, or WebDAV [36].

HINT: WinSCP is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the WinSCP package separately.

 

INFORMATION MANAGERS

KeePass
by Dominik Reichl (https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/keepass_portable).

KeePass Portable is the popular KeePass Password Safe packaged as a portable app, so you can securely carry your email, internet and other passwords with you. 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 [11].

An advantage of KeePass is, that it is also available on Android an iOS devices, which allows you to use the same password file on all devices.

HINT: KeePass is bundled with WA2L/WinTools, if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to install the KeePass package separately.

Zim Desktop Wiki
by Jaap Karssenberg <jaap.karssenberg@gmail.com> (http://www.zim-wiki.org/, http://www.glump.net/software/zim-windows).

Zim Desktop Wiki is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of local wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images. Pages are stored in a folder structure, like in an outliner, and can have attachments. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a nonexistent page. All data is stored in plain text files with wiki formatting. Various plugins provide additional functionality, like a task list manager, an equation editor, a tray icon, and support for version control [10].

HINT: similar functionality is also provided in the WA2L/WinTools package with the keynote(1) command. Therefore if you installed the WA2L/WinTools package you don't need to necessarily install the Zim Desktop Wiki package separately.

 

OPTIONS

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ENVIRONMENT

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EXIT STATUS

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FILES

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EXAMPLES

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SEE ALSO

wintoolsintro(1), wintools(1), 7-zip(1), anydesk(1), console(1m), compareit(1), dpwiper(1), hotkeyp(1) jpegview(1), keepass(1), keynote(1), pdfconcatenate(1), pdfrotate(1), pstart(1), putty(1), q10(1), qsel(1), run(1), shortcuts(1), sqlite-gui(1), sumatrapdf(1), synchronizeit(1), winscp(1), http://wa2l-edrc.sourceforge.net/, http://wa2l-simplebackup.sourceforge.net/, http://wa2l-wintools.sourceforge.net/

 

NOTES

You need to check for yourself if a particular software in this list is still free.

Some parts of this manual page are based on texts written by other individuals or organizations, this are the references to those sources:

[1]
Gnuplot, Home Page, 17.06.2017, URL: http://www.gnuplot.info

[2]
Octave Wikipedia Page, Introduction, 17.06.2017, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave

[3]
Ultradefrag, Home, 17.06.2017, URL: http://ultradefrag.sourceforge.net/en/index.html

[4]
Stinger, Introduction, 17.06.2017, URL: https://www.mcafee.com/de/downloads/free-tools/stinger.aspx

[6]
WMI Explorer, Introduction, 17.06.2017, URL: https://www.ks-soft.net/hostmon.eng/wmi/

[8]
Sumatra PDF, What is Sumatra PDF?, 17.06.2017, URL: https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org/free-pdf-reader.html

[10]
Zim Desktop Wiki, Home, 17.06.2017, URL: http://zim-wiki.org/

[11]
KeePass, Download Page, 17.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/keepass_portable

[12]
Eraser, Home Page, 18.06.2017, URL: https://eraser.heidi.ie/

[13]
ExamDiff, What is ExamDiff?, 18.06.2017, URL: http://www.prestosoft.com/edp_examdiff.asp

[14]
Compare It!, Home Page, 18.06.2017, URL: http://www.grigsoft.com/wincmp3.htm

[17]
Synchronize IT!, Home Page, 18.06.2017, URL: http://www.grigsoft.com/wndsync.htm

[21]
CamStudio, What is it?, 18.06.2017, URL: http://camstudio.org/

[22]
Der grandiose Bildverkleinerer, Home Page, 18.06.2017, URL: http://verkleinerer.drwuro.com/

[24]
PDF Scissors, What is PDF Scissors, 18.06.2017, URL: https://sites.google.com/site/pdfscissors/

[25]
VideoPad Video Editor, Introduction, 18.06.2017, URL: http://www.nchsoftware.com/videopad/index.html

[26]
Audacity, Welcome to Audacity, 18.06.2017, URL: http://www.audacityteam.org/

[28]
Greenfish Ico Editor, Features, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/greenfish-icon-editor-pro-portable

[29]
Fotografix, Lightweight image editor, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/fotografix_portable
[30]
JPEGView, Description, 18.06.2017, URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/jpegview/

[31]
Inkscape, Description, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/inkscape_portable

[33]
TeamViewer Portable, Remote PC support and screen sharing, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/teamviewer_portable

[34]
PuTTY Portable, portable telnet and SSH, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/putty_portable

[35]
MobaXterm, Home Page, 18.06.2017, URL: http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net

[36]
WinSCP, Description, 18.06.2017, URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/winscp/

[37]
FileZilla Features, Overview, 18.06.2017, URL: https://filezilla-project.org/client_features.php

[39]
Mozilla Thunderbird Portable, Features, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable

[40]
Mozilla Firefox Portable, Features, 18.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

[42]
Q10 (text editor), Introduction, 18.06.2017, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q10_(text_editor)

[43]
WPS Office, Introduction, 18.06.2017, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPS_Office

[44]
LibreOffice, Introduction, 18.06.2017, URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice

[46]
Gimp, Features, 21.06.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/graphics_pictures/gimp_portable

[47]
DB Browser for SQLite Portable, Introduction, 10.07.2017, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/development/sqlite_database_browser_portable/

[48]
AutoStitch, Home page, 10.07.2017, URL: http://matthewalunbrown.com/autostitch/autostitch.html

[49]
Resource Hacker, Overview, 15.07.2017, URL: http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/

[51]
Overleaf, Home page, 26.07.2017, URL: https://www.overleaf.com/

[53]
PDF Printer, Description, 15.08.2017, URL: http://www.7-pdf.de/en/products/pdf-printer

[55]
Exact Audio Copy, Home Page, 10.05.2018, URL: http://www.exactaudiocopy.de/en/

[56]
Calibre, About calibre, 20.05.2018, URL: https://calibre-ebook.com/about

[57]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/print-to-pdf-document/

[58]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adguard-adblocker/

[60]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-downloadhelper/

[61]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/xnotifier/

[63]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/diccionario-espa%C3%B1ol-venezuela/

[64]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/german-dictionary-de_ch-for-sp/

[65]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 20.05.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/united-states-english-spellche/

[66]
HxD - Freeware Hex Editor and Disk Editor, Home Page, 17.06.2018, URL: https://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd/

[67]
Firefox Add-ons, About this extension, 23.06.2018, URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-about-cookies/

[68]
draw.io, Home Page, 25.08.2018, URL: https://www.draw.io/pricing, https://about.draw.io/integrations/#integrations_offline

[69]
MusicBee, Home Page, 16.02.2019, URL: https://getmusicbee.com/

[70]
Fosshub, Light Alloy Home Page, 16.02.2019, URL: https://www.fosshub.com/Light-Alloy.html

[71]
Opera Portable, Portable Edition, 17.10.2019, URL: https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/opera_portable

[74]
Code::Blocks, Home Page, 30.11.2019, URL: http://www.codeblocks.org/

[75]
MinGW-w64, Home Page, 06.03.2020, URL: http://mingw-w64.org/, https://github.com/niXman/mingw-builds-binaries/releases.

[76]
Sublime, Home Page, 09.05.2020, URL: http://www.sublimetext.com/.

[78]
Proxy SwitchyOmega, Home Page, 30.05.2021, URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/proxy-switchyomega/padekgcemlokbadohgkifijomclgjgif

[80]
Custom UserAgent String, Home Page, 18.06.2021, URL: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/custom-useragent-string/

[82]
JSON Lite, Home Page, 05.12.2021 URL: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/json-lite/

[84]
Meta tags - SEO Tool, Home Page, 12.12.2021, URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/meta-tags-seo-tool/miihmfdpfdioogfbfofbnagblnjbjomg

[85]
YouTube Video Downloader, Home Page, 30.01.2022, URL: https://addoncrop.com/youtube-video-downloader-6/?id=8217720

[86]
Close to the Right, Home Page, 06.02.2022, URL: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/close-to-the-right/

[88]
Remove German Gender Language, Home Page, 08.02.2024, URL: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/remove-german-gender-language/

[89]
OpenJDK Portable, Home Page, 08.02.2024, URL: https://www.openlogic.com/openjdk-downloads

[90]
View Page Source, Home Page, 14.09.2024, URL: https://addons.opera.com/de/extensions/details/view-page-source/

[91]
ERD Concepts, Home Page, 14.09.2024, URL: https://www.erdconcepts.com/

 

BUGS

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AUTHOR

softwarelist was developed by Christian Walther. Send suggestions and bug reports to wa2l@users.sourceforge.net .

 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2024 Christian Walther

This is free software; see WA2LWinTools/man/COPYING for copying conditions. There is ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
AVAILABILITY
DESCRIPTION
START PORTABLE TOOLS PORTABLE
DEVELOPMENT
SCIENCE
SYSTEMTOOLS
UTILITIES
PLAYERS
GRAPHICS
PDF UTILITIES
TEXTEDITORS
OFFICE
INTERNET
CONNECTIONS
INFORMATION MANAGERS
OPTIONS
ENVIRONMENT
EXIT STATUS
FILES
EXAMPLES
SEE ALSO
NOTES
BUGS
AUTHOR
COPYRIGHT

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