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AutoVer is a configurable automatic or real time backup and personal versioning system. It can be used as a simple real time backup or as a more complex, but transparent version control system (like a realtime incremental backup). The beauty of this system is that once you set it up (which is extremely simple) it does everything. No remembering to backup or to check in or check out files. Every time you save a file it is copied to your backup folder, drive or FTP server.

You can include and exclude certain files and browse the backups with the Backup Explorer. Great for backing up (or one way synchronising) your work or home documents to flash memory or saving every change you make to your source code or image files.

Making it Portable

Use the tool Uniextract to make this application portable. Check this article to know how.
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There are various harddisk space analyzers which gives us a graphical representation of the files/folders which eats up our harddisk. These tools even provide options to visually navigate through the folders to view the space occupied by its subfolders. Here, we talk about few popular disk analyzers which are portable and worth giving a shot.

Comparison of all those are presented in a table at the end of this post.

Security Perspective: If you are an info sec guy, esp. in forensics, you can utilize the features of the these tools to identify the presence of hidden large files/archives which might possibly contain some sensitive data in it. Most of the time secret truecrypt files are hidden inside some OS folders to make it look genuine.

Note: Most of the apps mentioned here can be downloaded in a portable format. The others can be made portable using the method mentioned here

Comparison Table – here.

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FlashCookiesView is a small utility that displays the list of cookie files created by Flash component (Local Shared Object) in your Web browser. For each cookie file, the lower pane of FlashCookiesView displays the content of the file in readable format or as Hex dump. If you are a security tester, this can help you while testing for flash applications – to analyse the sensitive content in the flash generated cookies.

You can also select one or more cookie files, and then copy them to the clipboard, save them to text/html/xml file or delete them.

Flash Cookie Viewer

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This post talks about few portable ipod managers which can directly run from USB devices and sync with your iPods. If you don’t want to install the heavyweight iTunes in your PC, choose any of the apps discussed here.

Various apps discussed in this post are

1. Floola
2. iDump
3. YamiPod
4. SharePod
5. SongBird
6. MediaMonkey

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Easily map your frequntly accessed directories in your PC’s to a drive. You can choose the any drive letter from the set of ‘not used’ drives which is displayed in the tool.

Virtual Subst

This can be of very much use if mapping is done for folders with a long path, so that VirtualSubst can act like a bookmark.

TIP:

I usually take backup of my thumbdrive in a particular location, say D:\Usb. Now, when the thumbdrive is not connected, with VirtualSubst I can map the Usb back up folder to a drive letter which would have been assigned if thumbdrive was connected. So my backup folder acts as a virutal usb drive with the advantage of having active linking of most recent files list in my Word or any app. This also helps in creating desktop shortcuts of files present in the thumbdrive, which can be accessed if the thumbdrive is connected or not.

Features

• Tiny and Portable
• Option to enable virtual drives at startup
• Add/Delete any number of virtual drives quickly

Visual Subst Info
App Name	Visual Subst
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link

Windows Batch files can be used to automate or to run a sequence of operations. This includes starting multiple applications when windows starts up, clearing temp folder when a shortcut key is clicked, Ending certain unwanted processes etc

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BitsMonitor is simple app that uses ‘BITS’ to download files from web. This app has features like resume support, queuing, scheduling, shutdown aft complete etc.

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After uninstalling any software which had temporarily installed for testing purpose, will leave some traces in our PC as registry modifications or in the form of flat files in the OS folders. These unwanted files consumes disk space and might ultimately slow down our PC. WhatChanged is a tiny tool which is a must have for people who install and uninstall softwares frequently.

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Font matcher compares the font of the text embedded in an image with the set of fonts found in your fonts directory and displays the match percentage. This can save our precious time in quickly finding out a similar font rather than scanning through our font archives. This is available in portable as well as in installer versions.

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FileMenu tools includes a set of handy tools which can be easily accessed from the right click context menu of any file/folder. The tools can be individually customized and organized as required. We can also set filters for different types of file extensions so that the particular tool is displayed in the right click menu only for that corresponding extension.

Tools in Context Menu

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