What’s This About?

PDF-XChange Viewer is a fully portable application with a tabbed interface and extensive options for adding notes, text, highlights, drawing, etc. on a PDF file.

Why Would You Want It?

There are plenty of PDF file viewers available and most of them are free. Acrobat is bloated and slow, Foxit is good but not portable (Yes you can make Foxit portable using a wrapper , downloading the original installer and then using an extractor to get the executable – but who’s got that long to live!) PDF-XChange Viewer provides a fully portable (English Language) version with a tabbed interface and lots of useful options for direct download. The download has been kept small by stripping all unnecessary files including the language files so you miss out on these and a help file. Not only that but it is fast, relatively light.

What Does It Do – The Essentials?

Summary:

• Opens PDF files
• Provides tools for drawing and annotation
• Supports PDF file formats from 1.0 to 1.7 (equivalent to Acrobat

Pros: What’s Good?

Features & Benefits

• Freeware

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Popularity: 25% [?]

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What Does it Do – The Essentials?

PortableApps Menu is a a small utility that sits in the system tray and provides access to a suite of programs contained in the associated folders. It also provides access to a set of folders associated with the portable applications folder to make documents, music, pictures and videos available on you USB Flash drive or removable hard drive. (Or just use them in a folder on your PC – see Why You Want to Use Portable Freeware Applications) PortableApps Menu is part of the PortableApps.com Suite available here at PortableApps.com.

The suite comes in 3 versions:

Basic – PortableApps Menu, PortableApps Backup utility and custom folders, icons and AutoRun

Standard – Firefox Portable Edition, OpenOffice.org, Portable, Mozilla Songbird Portable, Gain Portable, Sudoku Portable and Thunderbird Portable Edition

Lite – As standard edition but replaces OpenOffice with Abiword

No doubt the above applications will be subject to the My Free Review treatment in the coming weeks.

Summary:

• Gives simple access to a suite of portable programs
• Provides a set of portable document and multimedia folders
• Can be set to run automatically at Startup

Pros: What’s Good?

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Popularity: 33% [?]

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I decided to start this blog back just before Christmas (2007), when it was cold, wet and miserable in the UK December winter. It is now January 2008 and I am sitting in my hotel room in Fuerteventura (Canary Islands) overlooking the pool area which is surrounded by palms. Beyond the pool is a beautiful golden sandy beach with an inviting blue and turquoise sea stretching away to the horizon. The temperature is about 22 Centigrade (72F). I have a glass of local white wine by my side and life seems perfect. If only the rest of my blogging career could be carried out in such pleasant surroundings! I really do consider myself very fortunate to be able to take holidays like this, life has not always been so pleasant and I think I may have paid with my share of hard times on the way. Of course that is a very subjective judgement, for the really underprivileged or someone in a third world country who is poor, starving and lacking even basic healthcare my whole life would seem like total luxury. (more…)

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