Portable Free Apps : Use it And Enjoy it

Opera boasts the world fastest browser. The latest version 10.0 comes with Turbo. And the portable Opera is available now. It features:

• there are no unwanted effects on IE or other browsers
• existing Opera versions are not affected
• make no entries to the registry
• works with every Windows PC (company,Internetcafe, friends,..)
• leave no data on the host computer

BingDownloader is an application that downloads everyday images from bing.com to your computer. The app is small, only 200KB.

BingDownloader 2.1 now downloads the US, Japan and International version of the images.

Popcorn is a ultra-lightweight POP3/SMTP e-mail client.It will work as a client/server application, reading mail “directly” from POP3 servers.

Popcorn requires no installation, no data is saved locally other than a portable .INI file containing account information. It is ideal for cleaning up POP3 accounts, removing spam, unwanted mail, large attachments etc…

If you are a developer and you need to capture TCP/IP packets sometimes, SmartSniff is perfect to you. SmartSniff can capture TCP/IP packets that pass through your network adapter, and view the captured data as sequence of conversations between clients and servers. You can view the TCP/IP conversations in Ascii mode (for text-based protocols, like HTTP, SMTP, POP3 and FTP.) or as hex dump. (for non-text base protocols, like DNS)

SmartSniff provides 3 methods for capturing TCP/IP packets : Raw Sockets, WinPcap Capture Driver and Microsoft Network Monitor Driver.

Network Scanner, developed by softperfect, is another free multi-threaded IP, NetBIOS and SNMP scanner with a modern interface and several advanced features. It is intended for both system administrators and general users who are interested in computer security. The program pings computers, scans for listening TCP ports and displays which types of resources are shared on the network (including system and hidden).

In addition, it allows you to mount shared folders as network drives, browse them using Windows Explorer, filter the results list and more. Network Scanner can also check for a user-defined port and report back if one is open. It can also resolve host names and auto-detect your local and external IP range. It supports remote shutdown and Wake-On-LAN.