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SunlitGreen Photo Editor is a           tweak levels and curves, and more.
polished photo-editing tool that        Where SunlitGreen Photo Editor
you can tuck in your flash drive        stands apart from most lightweight
toolkit for on-the-go editing,          and portable editors is support
color correction, curve adjustment,     for layers and filters. It'd be a
and more.                               far stretch to claim it replaces
Photo by Jose Roberto V Moraes.         high-end editors, but for simple   

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Windows: Tweak Me! is a powerful        you're tucking Tweak Me! into a
and portable tweak manager with         flash drive repair kit you can
support for multiple                    easily create profiles for
profiles—a perfect addition       everything from making your
to a flash drive toolkit that sees      friends' older XP systems run a
action on a variety of Windows          little faster to helping them
systems.                                customize their Windows 7          

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Windows: Portable file copier           your files. FileSieve supports
FileSieve is a batch file copier        copy sorting based on file
that sports a huge number of            attributes, size, extensions, MP3
toggles to help you copy files          tags, and more.                    

based on time stamp, file               Once you've toggled all the
ownership, and more.                    settings you can copy, move, or
Click on the image above and below      run a simulation to see if there   

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Linux's installation methods can        you can download the app in
come with certain annoyances when       question from PortableLinuxApps.
you're just testing apps, like          org's rather sizeable database and
needing extra repositories or           try it out hassle-free.
dependencies. If you don't want to      Note that you will need to
do a full app install,                  manually give the app executable
PortableLinuxApps.org can provide       permissions after downloading it.  

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Windows only: The SysInternals          folder where you store the rest of
suite of utilities, including the       your SysInternals utilities, and
excellent Process Explorer tool,        once you run the batch file, it
are a must-have for any serious         will connect to the SysInternals
geek, but they don't come with a        servers and download updated
built-in way to keep them updated.      versions automatically.
Here's how to keep them                 It's a great way to keep your      

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Windows only: Portable system           the main interface with backup &
maintenance utility System Nucleus      recovery, system auditing, process
consolidates multiple tools into a      management, and more. There's also
single package—process            a handy system tray icon that
management, startup program             gives you quick access to just
editors, backup and recovery tools,     about any maintenance tool you
and more.                               would want to use—including  

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Windows: If you're looking to get       distinguishes between different
more out of the clipboard function      kinds of text like HTML and email
than merely shuttling one-off           addresses and offers the ability
snippets of text back and forth,        to fine tune how such text should
ClipManager expands the text,           be handled—copying an email
image, and file handling power of       address from the clipboard can
the clipboard.                          launch your email application, for 

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Windows only: Freeware note             either side—it will detect
manager CintaNotes clips text from      that a change has been made from
anywhere with a hotkey, finds           another PC, and automatically
notes as you type, and now the          refresh with the latest notes.
portable version synchronizes           Other than the Dropbox integration,
between PCs using                       one of the more useful features is
Dropbox—without closing the       that CintaNotes will store the URL 

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Windows: If you'd like to               windowed, and whether you want
experiment with speed reading           retarding enabled. Retarding,
Speed Reader Enhanced is a              awkward word choice aside, will
tiny—23k download!                cause a momentary pause on all
—application for turning any      punctuation marks.
block of pastable text into a           Speed Reader Enhanced is freeware,
speed reading exercise.                 portable, and Windows only.        

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If seeing the PortableApps splash       instead of True, and the copy the
screen every single time you            file into the same directory as
launch Portable Firefox gets on         the executable file. Hit the link
your nerves, you aren't alone, and      for the full walk-through for
thankfully there's a quick and          Firefox Portable, but the same
easy solution to your problem.          method should work for any of the
Over at the How-To Geek site (my        PortableApps.com applications.     

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