Scribus is a desktop publishing tool like Adobe PageMaker. It supports professional publishing features, such as CMYK color, separations, ICC color management and versatile PDF creation. Other features include PDF Import, EPS import/export, Unicode text including right to left scripts such as Arabic and Hebrew
Release Highlights:
* Updates Scribus to 1.3.3.8.
Homepage – Quate
Size: 32 MB
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image editor for photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. 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 etc
Release Highlights:
* Updated to GIMP 2.2.13
* launcher now Vista compatible
* greatly improved startup time (the launcher adjusts your plugin paths)
* correct cleanup of gtk-bookmarks, thumbnails, etc
* now packaged in PortableApps.com Format for easy integration with the PortableApps.com Suite
Homepage – Portable GIMP
Size: 8.6 MB
Firefox is a fast, full-featured web browser that’s easy to use. It has lots of great features including popup-blocking, tabbed-browsing, integrated search, improved privacy features, automatic updating and more.
Release Highlights:
* Firefox updated to 2.0.0.1
Homepage – Portable Firefox
Size: 5.7 MB
ubSpawn is a small and simple application to manage an unlimited number of files and folders for quick access.
Release Highlights:
* Added: Automatic mode rotation for Title Wizard; now you can watch your date & time along with your news feeds without switching the modes manually.
* Added: Option in Title Wizard to proccess only the active window which currently has the focus.
* Added: New actions “Open Media Drive” and “Close Media Drive” to open or close your CD/DVD drives without pressing the drive button on your PC.
* Added: New actions “Run Command Line”, “Show ubSpawn” and “Hide ubSpawn” added.
* Added: Brand new action dialog; now actions can have parameters! Description for actions are now displayed.
* Added: When changing transparency for main window, changes will become visible immediately.
* Fixed: Some fixes for Title Wizard to make it more stable.
* Fixed: When starting an action which shows an error in a hot corner, there won’t be multiple actions be spawned anymore.
Homepage – ubSpawn
Size: 300 KB
FastStone Capture is a powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle regions, freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages. It has innovative features such as a floating Capture Panel, hotkeys, resizing, cropping, text annotation, printing, e-mailing, screen magnifier and many more.
Release Highlights:
* Compatible with Windows Vista
* Improved quality of 256 color PNG/GIF output
* Added To Email to the Output list
* Added Reset to Primary Screen (only available in Multi-monitor system) to the tray icon’s popup menu
Homepage – Faststone
Size: 1.3 MB
PWSMoney is a simple accounting program designed to keep all financial details in one place. Transactions can be either entered manually or imported via downloaded CSV/QIF (comma separated value/quicken interchange format) files or a combination of both pproaches.
Homepage – PWSMoney
Size: 1.9 MB
Portable7zip is a file archiver that supports the new “7z” format with very high compression ratio using LZMA compression. In addition, it supports the creation/extraction of 7z, ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2 and TAR files, as well as the extraction of RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB and NSIS files.
Release Highlights:
* Vista compatible launcher and installer
* PortableApps Format 0.9
Homepage – PortableApp
Size: 1.1 MB
Portable OpenOffice is a easy-to-use and feature-rich, performing nearly all of the functions you’d expect in an office suite – including a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database
Release Highlights:
* Updated OpenOffice.org to 2.0.4
* Vista compatible launcher and installer
Homepage – Portable OpenOffice
Size: 65.1 MB
Portable Thunderbird is the safe, fast email client that’s easy to use. It has all the same great features as regular Thunderbird including quick message search, customizable views, support for IMAP/POP, RSS support and more.
Release Highlights:
* Updated Thunderbird to 1.5.0.8
* Vista compatible launcher and installer
* PortableApps Format 0.9
Homepage – Portable Thunderbird
Size: 6.0 MB
Portable Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client that works with AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, Yahoo! and more. You can log into multiple networks all with the same program. All your IM settings and buddy lists are self-contained, so it leaves no personal information behind on the machine you run it on.
Release Highlights:
* Updated Gaim to 2.0 Beta 5
* Fixed issue with Gaim running alongside GTK+ 2.8
* Vista compatible launcher and installer
* PortableApps Format 0.9
Homepage – Portable Gaim
Size: 6.9 MB
Run it on your memory stick. Your key drive. Your iPod. 