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.

Features

• Select any number of separate folders or folder trees (including sub folders) to watch for changes – each folder tree has its own independent settings
• Select straight backup or one of two versioning modes
• Select any folder, drive or FTP to backup to (including memory sticks and network drives)
• Option to create an initial backup before the automatic backup starts and ensure it is current on every startup
• Backups can be checked automatically, at a set time or manually
• Restrict which files and folders to include and exclude (by file mask) & maximum size
• Change the versioning date/time stamp format and versioning rate.
• Zip or delete old versions after a specified time (or just keep storing the files)
• Optionally delete backup files on original file deletion permanently or to the Recycle Bin
• Fault tolerance in case your backup folder/drive goes off line or source files are locked. Drives re-sync’ed when they come online
• MS Office, Visual Studio plus many others supported (temp file creation, delete then rename is treated as original file change)
• Backup file & version explorer included
• Open backups or file versions directly (file extensions are preserved) or via inbuilt explorer
• Compare file versions (using an external application)
• Restore file versions one at a time or all at once via inbuilt explorer or manually
• Run a program on each file change so you can encode, resize or do anything to the file – just use AutoVer for the change detection
• Runs discretely in the Windows System Tray & and can be 100% portable (AutoVer can be installed on removable media)
• x86/x32 (32 bit) and x64 (64 bit) support (Windows 2000 to Windows 7+)

AutoVer Info
App Name	AutoVer
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link

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.

HDGraph

SpaceSniffer

DiskSpaceFan

WinDirStat

TreeSizeFree

SpaceMonger

OverDisk

JDiskReport

Disktective

Xinorbis

Scanner

FilePro

FolderSize

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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

System Requirements

This utility works on any version of Windows, starting from Windows 2000 and up to Windows 7. Also, FlashCookiesView can work with any Web browser, because the Flash component always save flash cookies in the same place and in the same format, regardless the Web browser that you use.

Using FlashCookiesView

FlashCookiesView doesn’t require any installation process or additional DLL files. In order to start using it, simply copy the files to any folder you like, and run the executable file – FlashCookiesView.exe 
The main window of FlashCookiesView contains 2 panes: The upper pane displays the list of all cookies files found in your flash cookies folder. When you select a cookies file in the upper pane, the lower pane displays the content of the cookie. By default, FlashCookiesView parse the cookie file and display it in name/value format, but you can also view the content of the cookie file as Hex Dump, by choosing ‘Hex Dump’ view from Options->Display Mode (or simply by pressing F3).

You can also select one or more cookie files in the upper pane, and then use ‘Save Selected Items’ option to export the cookies list to text/html/xml/csv file, or ‘Delete Selected Cookies Files’ to delete unneeded flash cookies.

If you want to view the Flash cookies of another computer/operating system/user profile, simply press F9 and select the right base cookies folder.

Download FlashCookieViewer:

Various apps discussed in this post are

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

1. Floola

Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod (any model supporting iTunes except iPhone, iPod touch and latest iPod shuffle).

It’s a standalone application that can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation under Linux (any GTK2 distro), Mac OS X (10.3.9 or newer!) and Windows (98 or newer, including Windows 7).

Foola iPod Manager

Features

• Cross plattform
• Copy add and extract songs to and from iPod.
• Playlists -  Easily manage, import and export (m3u, pls) playlists.
• Last.fm
• Podcasts
• Web videos – add files to iPod just copying the page url
• Lyrics Support – even on older iPods (3G and above).
• Search for duplicates – Easily find duplicated songs on iPod.
• Convert audio and video incompatible formats

Download Page :

2. iDump

This program will allow you transfer your songs off your iPod to a PC. Connect you iPod and run iDump and you’ll have access to all your songs, select the songs you want to transfer then pick a destination directory and how you would like your songs to be named.

iDump iPod Manager

Features

• Output formatting – Gives you the option to select an output directory and the way the songs will be transferred.
• Unattended Transfer - deals with common errors like what to do if a song already exist on the destination drive etc.
• Search
• Playlists
• Export Playlists – This option will export all of your playlists in to the standard .m3u format.

Download Page :

3. YamiPod

YamiPod is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod under Mac OS X, Windows and Linux. It can be run directly from your iPod and needs no installation. Take a look at the feature list to find out what it can do and feel free to suggest anything that might be missing.

Yamipod iPod Manager

Features

Download Page:

4. SharePod

SharePod was designed from the start to be lightweight, quick and responsive ipod manager

Sharepod iPod Manager

Features

• Add & remove music and videos from your iPod
• Add, remove and edit playlists
• Add & remove album art
• View and backup photos
• Copy music, videos and playlists from your iPod to PC
• Import music/videos into your iTunes library, including playlists and ratings
• Tag editing
• Drag n’ drop to and from Explorer
• Simple, clean interface
• Quick to load and use with no unnessary complicated features
• Support for iPhone and iTouch (Thanks to Nikias Bassen, Paul Sladen, Jonathan Beck, and Christophe Fergeau for making this possible)

Download Page:

5. SongBird

Play your iPod from Songbird and synchronize it with your Songbird library (with the help of iPod device Songbird extension). We can even copy songs to your iPod or synchronize your iPod from your Songbird library.

Songbird iPod Sync

Features

• Sync – Add a song or build a playlist, and Songbird automatically syncs it to your phone or MP3 player
• Manage – Search, sort, stream, sync. Add Flickr photos, YouTube videos, song lyrics, and blogs for every artist on your playlist, even the tracks you stream over the Web. It’s all part of the mix.

Install iPod Device Support Addon to be able to sync the iPods

Download Page:

6. MediaMonkey

Sync with iPhones, iPods, and most any MP3 phone or Audio Device. Just click the Sync button to sync tracks, podcasts, and related properties such as Album Art, ratings, play history, and playlists.

Media Monkey - Music Organizer

Features

• Organize music and edit tags in your audio library with a powerful, intuitive interface
• Create playlists and let Auto-DJ & Party Mode take care of your party.
• Sync iPhones, iPods, & MP3 players, converting & leveling tracks on-the-fly.

(Read this article to learn how to make MediaMonkey portable)

Download Page:

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

You can even do more than starting programs with the built-in file management functions like Copy, Rename, Makedir, Delete, End Process, Kill Process and Text to Clipboard. Batchrun batch files can be launched from Explorer or placed in StartUp folder or on the Desktop.

Check how to enable and disable USB devices with batch programming

Features

• Launch files of any filetype and dialup connections
• Internal commands: Run, Copy, Rename, Makedir, Delete, DelTree, End Process, Kill Process, Text to Clipboard
• Wildcard support for Copy, Delete and DelTree
• Makedir nested folder creation
• Drag and Drop between Explorer and Batchrun
• Support for date and time tags
• Command line parameters can be passed to Batchrun script files
• Save batch files directly to Startup and Desktop

Note: If you are using the portable version of BatchRun make sure that you associate ‘*.brs‘ files with this application.

Download BatchRun :

More Info at BatchRun HomePage

The idea behind BitsMonitor is to use Windows built-in technology called Background Intelligent Transfer Service to download files from web. BitsMonitor may be called a wrapper for a BIT service. What it does is only creates jobs, add links to the file user wants to download and… gets information about downloading progress from BITS.

Features

• Tiny and Portable
• Resume Support
• ‘Shutdown When Done’ Option
  
• Queue and Thread downloads

Download Bits Monitor :

More Info at BitsMonitor Homepage

This tool takes a snapshot of our files and registry (current state) and will be compared with the snapshot after installing any software.This can help us finding the leftovers and completely removing them.

Features

• Portable and Free
• Tiny app (~100KB)
• Scans both files and registry for changes
• Changes can be saved in text format

TIP:

This tool can also help in understanding the installation sequences and files distributed in our system which can be reverse engineering to create portable apps.

Download WhatChanged :

More Info at WhatChanged Homepage [via PenDriveApps]

Steps

1. Load the bitmap containing a letter of the mystery font
2. Locate fonts folder
3. Select the char in the image and click ‘Find’

Font Matcher Screenshot

Note: FontMatcher works only with TrueType Fonts

Demo

Download FontMatcher :

More Info : Font Matcher

Tools in Context Menu

Features

• Free and Portable
• Add some built-in utilities that perform operations on files and folders.
• Customize filters for enabling tools for particular file extensions.
• Add customized commands which run external applications, copy/move to a specific folder or delete specific file types.
• Configure the “Send to…” submenu.
• Enable/disable commands which are added by other applications to the context menu.

FileMenu Tools Screenshot

Built-In Tools

• Synchronizes two folders. It is possible configure the synchronization type (unidirectional, bidirectional, etc.) and the file types which must be synchronized.
• Deletes recursively specific file types from a folder. The file types are specified with wildcards, for example: *.txt, *.t??, etc.
• Finds and replaces a text in all selected files. It is possible to use regular expressions.
• Renames all the selected elements by using some patterns.
• Deletes files which are locked by any application and cannot be deleted normally.
• Deletes definitely files and folders.
• Changes the icon assigned to the selected folder.
• Run a program with parameters typed through a dialog box.
• Open a command line window and go to selected folder.
• Splits the selected file in various parts.
• Joins the parts of a file which were previously splitted.
• Copies the selected elements to other folder.
• Moves the selected elements to other folder.
• Copies to the clipboard the name of the all selected elements.
• Copies to the clipboard the path of the all selected elements.
• Copies to the clipboard the content of the selected element. If a folder is selected, all element names that the folder contains will be copied.
• Appends the clipboard contents into the selected elements. If a folder is selected, then will be created a file in that folder with the clipboard contents.
• Displays a submenu which lets change the attributes of the selected elements. If a folder is selected, it is possible change the attributes recursively.
• Changes the creation time, the last access time and/or the last write time of the selected elements. If a folder is selected, it is possible change the time recursively.
• Registers a DLL in Windows.
• Unregisters a DLL.
• Creates a new folder into the selected folder.
• Displays the size of the folders.
• Lets you shred the selected files definitely so it is impossible to recovery the files with recovering tools.
• Sends an e-mail with the selected elements as attachments.
• Creates a new subfolder in the current folder and moves all the selected elements to this subfolder.
• Creates a new copy of the selected elements in the current folder.
• Selects the elements in the Windows Explorer by its type.

Add a new Command

Open a Program with…

Click the ‘Add Command’ button to add a new item in the FileMenu Tools menu. We have to edit the data in the ‘Properties Window’ to make the operation functional. Consider an example; we need ‘Open with Firefox’ in the menu whenever we right click any html files. This can enabled by defining ‘File Extensions’ property in the properties window. Since this new menu should appear only for the files and not for folders we choose ‘No’ for the folders property. We can also change the icon which is displayed in the right click menu.

Properties Window

Add SendTo item

To add a item in the SendTo menu, we select the ‘SendTo’ tab and click add command. For example, if we need to add DropBox folder in the ‘SendTo’ Menu we set the following properties.

SendTo Menu

TIP! Making FileMenuTools Portable

Step1 : Install FileMenu Tools in a temporary folder.

Step2: Copy all the contents in the FileMenuTools installation folder, except unins000.dat, unins000.exe, to a new folder.

Step3: Uninstall FileMenuTools application from Add/Remove programs.

Step4: Run ‘F’ileMenuTools.exe’ from the folder which was created in Step2.

Note: We cannot make this portable with Uniextract since it is not able to unpack the setup file.

FileMenu Tools Info
App Name	FileMenu Tools
License	free
Type	portable
App URL
More Info	link