Filed under: Security, Utilities, Productivity, Freeware
55 free and almost free portable apps for your USB Swiss Army Knife

It's a list chock full of goodies like SmartSniff, AngryIPScanner, and a tiny little IM application called Easy Message.
You won't need everything on the list -- there are quite a few duplications of functionality -- but if you've always wanted to build the ultimate geek toolbox on a stick, it's a pretty good resource from which to get ideas.
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...

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david b said 9:01AM on 6-19-2007
I tried to download one of the apps on this list (RockXP) and Avast alerted me it contained malware. Ironic, since Avast is on the list too.
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Shannon said 9:37AM on 6-19-2007
While downloading RockXP [768 KB | Freeware | Win XP] RockXP can help you to easily retrieve your XP product key as well as any other keys for your other Microsoft products. This may not sound like a big deal, but it can be if you need to reinstall a program and you've misplaced the product key information.
McaFee as well as WIndows Defender stopped it as a serious problem, with virus detected.
Is this a false positive or does it have a virus piggy backing on it?
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Robert said 11:12AM on 6-19-2007
I appreciate the information, but a REAL help would be to put all the files into a ZIP file for me to download all with one click...
No comment yet on the trojans - I'll see what AVG says about them...
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Robert said 11:24AM on 6-19-2007
AVG anti-spy/virus did not complain about the downloads. Usually SnapFiles is pretty good about making sure they don't give you bad stuff!
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eoghancampion said 11:28AM on 6-19-2007
That's not a knife, THIS is a knife!
http://mypage.bluewin.ch/surfland/swissmemory.jpg
I have one and they're awesome, a program I always keep on it is the PC De-Crapifier, good for clearing Dell PCs of all the bloated software!
http://www.pcdecrapifier.com/
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modul8r said 4:21PM on 6-19-2007
Although I haven't used "KeePass Password Safe", I have been using "Password Safe" (by Counterpane Systems) for years and recommend it. Note that the later is open source.
http://passwordsafe.sourceforge.net/
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