rapa
10-25-2006, 09:45 AM
Description:
Requirements
1. 512MB USB Flash drive (You can delete files to make it fit on a smaller drive)
2. Windows (All of these program need Windows)
3. WinXP Service Pack 2 (For the Autorun feature to work)
4. Admin Rights (For TrueCrypt functionality)
5. If you already have TrueCrypt installed on your system, it must be version 4.1.
Initial Setup
Warning: Backup your current USB drive!
1. Delete everything from your current USB drive.
2. Extract USBApps.zip to your USB drive.
3. Explore your USB drive.
4. Setup an encrypted partition to secure sensitive files.
1. Double click on TrueCrypt.
2. Click "Create Volume" button to start TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard.
3. Click "Next" at the first screen (this will create a standard TrueCrypt volume).
4. In Volume Location, type "X:files.tc" Where X: is the volume letter for your thumbdrive and then click Next. (i.e. If your thumbdrive is mounted as the G: drive, type G:files.tc)
5. Select your Encryption Options and then click Next. (If you don't know what to do, just accept the defaults)
6. Input a Volume Size. This has to be smaller than the remaing free space on your thumbdrive.
7. Select a Volume Password. (Make sure it is a STRONG password that you won't forget)
8. On the Volume Format screen, leave the defaults and select Format.
9. When it is done, it will tell you. Just click OK and then Exit.
5. Create a folder on your C: drive called USBBackup (if you want to use the backup feature).
Usage
If you have Windows XP Service Pack 2, when you insert your drive into a USB port, it will prompt you for a password. This password is the one you specified when you created the TrueCrypt volume during the initial setup. If you enter the password correctly, it will mount your encrypted volume as the Q: drive. (Make sure you dismount the volume before you unplug your drive)
To access the advanced features of this flash drive setup, right click on the drive in the the My Computer window.
o TrueCrypt Mount - This will attempt to mount the encrypted volume you created as the Q: drive. This is included in case Autorun is turned off or you don't have WinXP SP2.
o TrueCrypt Backup - This will backup your Q: drive (if you have it mounted) to C:USBBackup.
o TrueCrypt Dismount All - This will dismount any and all encrypted volumes.
o TrueCrypt Start - If you want to manually mount or dismount encrypted volumes.
o PStart - Launches PStart (see below)
o Explore - If you want to browse the contents of your flash drive.
Extra Security
If you want to be a little more cautios, you can run some of the apps from the encrypted partition you created. This will allow you to store favorites and profile settings in the encrypted files.tc you created above. To do this follow these steps:
1. Make sure your files.tc has been mounted to the Q: drive. If it isn't, right click on your flash drive in Explorer and select TrueCrypt Mount and mount the partition.
2. Make sure PStart is not running.
3. Move the folder called PortableApps from the root of your flash drive to the Q: drive.
4. Rename PStart.xml to PStartBackup.xml.
5. Rename PStartSecure.xml to PStart.xml.
6. Now when you want to launch the portable versions of Firefox, Gaim, Opera, OpenOffice, FileZilla, Thunderbird, Sunbird, AbiWord or NVU, you must have your encrypted Q: drive mounted.
Individual Application Info
PStart
PStart is a great little application that makes it easy to launch all of these apps from your USB drive. Once you start PStart you can access it via a popup from its systray icon. It functions as a second start menu just for your USB apps. You can also save short notes on the Notes tab. The PStart included with the USB apps I have assembled is already configured to launch most of the apps.
Productivity
AcroPad
Website (http://www.acropad.com/)
AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF production capability. Handy for quick generation of simple PDF documents.
EssentialPIM
Website (http://www.essentialpim.com/)
EssentialPIM functions as a scheduler, contact manager, and outliner. Data can be imported from MS Outlook/Outlook Express, and exported to HTML, RTF, CSV, and TXT. All data can be password-protected and the database file encrypted using 128-bit Rijndael.
Foxit PDF Reader
Website (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php)
Foxit PDF Reader is a small, fast PDF viewer with Eastern Asian language support.
MyLife Organized
Website (http://www.mylifeorganized.net)
This personal task outliner will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The to-do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. It has Pocket PC version and can be synced with Outlook and MindManager.
PDFproducer
Website (http://naramcheez.netfirms.com/pdfproducer.html)
PDFproducer is a small utility that converts plain text into PDF documents. It does not require Acrobat to be installed on the system, since it does not uses any component of Acrobat to produce PDF files. You have a choice of 3 page sizes, different orientation as well as up to 3 fonts.
Portable OpenOffice
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuf...le_openoffice/)
OpenOffice is a full-featured office suite that is compatible with all major office suites. It comes with Impress for presentations, Draw for diagrams, Calc for spreadsheets and the Writer word processor. Portable OpenOffice is a special build of OpenOffice that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow you to launch it from the directory of your choice.
Portable Sunbird
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_sunbird/)
Mozilla Sunbird is a calendar client that supports the creation of scheduled events and the ability to get an overview of events on a particular day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it to a WebDAV-capable server. Portable Sunbird is a special build of Mozilla Sunbird that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
PSPad
Website (http://www.pspad.com/)
PSPad is a great text editor with syntax highlighting, hex editing, HTML tidying, built-in diff etc.
TextMe
Website (http://www15.brinkster.com/pmchapman...te/textme.html)
TextMe is a drag-and-drop notes database. It is handy as a quick note jotting space or to copy text notes over from other documents or websites. TextMe currently only supports plain text notes.
Tomahawk PDF
Website (http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html)
Tomahawk is a full-featured word processor for RTF, TXT and other file formats, with built-in PDF export capability.
xint
Website (http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xint.php)
xint (pronounced "zint") is an alternative to Windows notepad, with dozens of useful functions. The focus is on efficiency and performance and thus there are no toolbars, redundant dialogs, or other uneccesary components. Most of the functions are accessible via hotkeys, and extra formatting options are also availible through a convenient floating menu (screenshot) that is activated also via hotkeys or the system menu to wherever your cursor happens to be. Make extracting html content from a textfile, or alternately, saving only the html easy. Turn tab space delimited text files into comma delimited files, or, vice-a-versa. xint does the standard find and replace much quicker then with regular notepad. Another thing that is of great convenience, is "Twofish" encryption. Use "Twofish", a military-strength 160-bit encryption algoritm to securely hide sensitive data.
Internet
FileZilla
Website (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/)
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc.
HydraIRC
Website (http://www.hydrairc.com/)
HydraIRC is an IRC client that supports DCC chat and file transfers, connecting to multiple servers, dockable floating tabbed windows, autohiding windows, DLL plugins, channel monitoring, message logs, event viewer, themes, color schemes, buddy groups, audible and visual notifications , regexp highlighting, favorites and more.
OperaUSB
Website (http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm)
Opera is a fast and secure web browser that features pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, built-in email and RSS client etc. OperaUSB is a portable package for Opera that does not write to the registry nor leave any data on the guest machine where it is run.
Portable Firefox
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/)
Mozilla Firefox is an web browser that includes popup blocking, tabbed browsing, smart search and built-in download manager. Portable Firefox is a special build of Mozilla Firefox that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Portable Gaim
Website (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php#portable)
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple networks simultaneously. It also supports many native features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.
Portable NVU
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_nvu/)
Nvu is a web authoring system (like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) that features WYSIWYG editing of web pages, integrated file management via FTP and tabbed editing that makes working on multiple pages a snap. It includes support for forms, tables, and templates. Portable NVU is a special build of NVU that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Portable Thunderbird
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/)
Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client with SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS support. It comes with advanced message filtering, Bayesian spam detector and built-in spell checker, Portable Thunderbird is a special build of Mozilla Thunderbird that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Uniform Server
Website (http://www.uniformserver.com/index.php?us=plugins)
The Uniform Server is a complete web development system on the move. It contains Apache, PHP, MySQL and Perl. There are additional plugins that you can download at the website that will extend the system with FTP server and Java servlet support. It also includes MediaWiki preinstalled and configured.
Requirements
1. 512MB USB Flash drive (You can delete files to make it fit on a smaller drive)
2. Windows (All of these program need Windows)
3. WinXP Service Pack 2 (For the Autorun feature to work)
4. Admin Rights (For TrueCrypt functionality)
5. If you already have TrueCrypt installed on your system, it must be version 4.1.
Initial Setup
Warning: Backup your current USB drive!
1. Delete everything from your current USB drive.
2. Extract USBApps.zip to your USB drive.
3. Explore your USB drive.
4. Setup an encrypted partition to secure sensitive files.
1. Double click on TrueCrypt.
2. Click "Create Volume" button to start TrueCrypt Volume Creation Wizard.
3. Click "Next" at the first screen (this will create a standard TrueCrypt volume).
4. In Volume Location, type "X:files.tc" Where X: is the volume letter for your thumbdrive and then click Next. (i.e. If your thumbdrive is mounted as the G: drive, type G:files.tc)
5. Select your Encryption Options and then click Next. (If you don't know what to do, just accept the defaults)
6. Input a Volume Size. This has to be smaller than the remaing free space on your thumbdrive.
7. Select a Volume Password. (Make sure it is a STRONG password that you won't forget)
8. On the Volume Format screen, leave the defaults and select Format.
9. When it is done, it will tell you. Just click OK and then Exit.
5. Create a folder on your C: drive called USBBackup (if you want to use the backup feature).
Usage
If you have Windows XP Service Pack 2, when you insert your drive into a USB port, it will prompt you for a password. This password is the one you specified when you created the TrueCrypt volume during the initial setup. If you enter the password correctly, it will mount your encrypted volume as the Q: drive. (Make sure you dismount the volume before you unplug your drive)
To access the advanced features of this flash drive setup, right click on the drive in the the My Computer window.
o TrueCrypt Mount - This will attempt to mount the encrypted volume you created as the Q: drive. This is included in case Autorun is turned off or you don't have WinXP SP2.
o TrueCrypt Backup - This will backup your Q: drive (if you have it mounted) to C:USBBackup.
o TrueCrypt Dismount All - This will dismount any and all encrypted volumes.
o TrueCrypt Start - If you want to manually mount or dismount encrypted volumes.
o PStart - Launches PStart (see below)
o Explore - If you want to browse the contents of your flash drive.
Extra Security
If you want to be a little more cautios, you can run some of the apps from the encrypted partition you created. This will allow you to store favorites and profile settings in the encrypted files.tc you created above. To do this follow these steps:
1. Make sure your files.tc has been mounted to the Q: drive. If it isn't, right click on your flash drive in Explorer and select TrueCrypt Mount and mount the partition.
2. Make sure PStart is not running.
3. Move the folder called PortableApps from the root of your flash drive to the Q: drive.
4. Rename PStart.xml to PStartBackup.xml.
5. Rename PStartSecure.xml to PStart.xml.
6. Now when you want to launch the portable versions of Firefox, Gaim, Opera, OpenOffice, FileZilla, Thunderbird, Sunbird, AbiWord or NVU, you must have your encrypted Q: drive mounted.
Individual Application Info
PStart
PStart is a great little application that makes it easy to launch all of these apps from your USB drive. Once you start PStart you can access it via a popup from its systray icon. It functions as a second start menu just for your USB apps. You can also save short notes on the Notes tab. The PStart included with the USB apps I have assembled is already configured to launch most of the apps.
Productivity
AcroPad
Website (http://www.acropad.com/)
AcroPAD is a simple Notepad-like program with PDF production capability. Handy for quick generation of simple PDF documents.
EssentialPIM
Website (http://www.essentialpim.com/)
EssentialPIM functions as a scheduler, contact manager, and outliner. Data can be imported from MS Outlook/Outlook Express, and exported to HTML, RTF, CSV, and TXT. All data can be password-protected and the database file encrypted using 128-bit Rijndael.
Foxit PDF Reader
Website (http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/rd_intro.php)
Foxit PDF Reader is a small, fast PDF viewer with Eastern Asian language support.
MyLife Organized
Website (http://www.mylifeorganized.net)
This personal task outliner will help you to organize your goals, projects and tasks into a tree. The to-do list with actions that require immediate attention will be generated. It has Pocket PC version and can be synced with Outlook and MindManager.
PDFproducer
Website (http://naramcheez.netfirms.com/pdfproducer.html)
PDFproducer is a small utility that converts plain text into PDF documents. It does not require Acrobat to be installed on the system, since it does not uses any component of Acrobat to produce PDF files. You have a choice of 3 page sizes, different orientation as well as up to 3 fonts.
Portable OpenOffice
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/useful_stuf...le_openoffice/)
OpenOffice is a full-featured office suite that is compatible with all major office suites. It comes with Impress for presentations, Draw for diagrams, Calc for spreadsheets and the Writer word processor. Portable OpenOffice is a special build of OpenOffice that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow you to launch it from the directory of your choice.
Portable Sunbird
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_sunbird/)
Mozilla Sunbird is a calendar client that supports the creation of scheduled events and the ability to get an overview of events on a particular day, week or month. The calendar can be shared by publishing it to a WebDAV-capable server. Portable Sunbird is a special build of Mozilla Sunbird that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
PSPad
Website (http://www.pspad.com/)
PSPad is a great text editor with syntax highlighting, hex editing, HTML tidying, built-in diff etc.
TextMe
Website (http://www15.brinkster.com/pmchapman...te/textme.html)
TextMe is a drag-and-drop notes database. It is handy as a quick note jotting space or to copy text notes over from other documents or websites. TextMe currently only supports plain text notes.
Tomahawk PDF
Website (http://nativewinds.montana.com/software/tomahawk.html)
Tomahawk is a full-featured word processor for RTF, TXT and other file formats, with built-in PDF export capability.
xint
Website (http://www.xtort.net/xtort/xint.php)
xint (pronounced "zint") is an alternative to Windows notepad, with dozens of useful functions. The focus is on efficiency and performance and thus there are no toolbars, redundant dialogs, or other uneccesary components. Most of the functions are accessible via hotkeys, and extra formatting options are also availible through a convenient floating menu (screenshot) that is activated also via hotkeys or the system menu to wherever your cursor happens to be. Make extracting html content from a textfile, or alternately, saving only the html easy. Turn tab space delimited text files into comma delimited files, or, vice-a-versa. xint does the standard find and replace much quicker then with regular notepad. Another thing that is of great convenience, is "Twofish" encryption. Use "Twofish", a military-strength 160-bit encryption algoritm to securely hide sensitive data.
Internet
FileZilla
Website (http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/)
FileZilla is a fast and reliable FTP and SFTP client. It includes a site manager and supports uploads/downloads queue, keepalive, timeout detection, SOCKS 4/5 and HTTP 1.1 proxy etc.
HydraIRC
Website (http://www.hydrairc.com/)
HydraIRC is an IRC client that supports DCC chat and file transfers, connecting to multiple servers, dockable floating tabbed windows, autohiding windows, DLL plugins, channel monitoring, message logs, event viewer, themes, color schemes, buddy groups, audible and visual notifications , regexp highlighting, favorites and more.
OperaUSB
Website (http://www.opera-usb.com/operausben.htm)
Opera is a fast and secure web browser that features pop-up blocking, tabbed browsing, integrated searches, built-in email and RSS client etc. OperaUSB is a portable package for Opera that does not write to the registry nor leave any data on the guest machine where it is run.
Portable Firefox
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_firefox/)
Mozilla Firefox is an web browser that includes popup blocking, tabbed browsing, smart search and built-in download manager. Portable Firefox is a special build of Mozilla Firefox that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Portable Gaim
Website (http://gaim.sourceforge.net/win32/index.php#portable)
Gaim is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is compatible with AIM and ICQ (Oscar protocol), MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, SILC, GroupWise Messenger, and Zephyr networks. Gaim users can log in to multiple accounts on multiple networks simultaneously. It also supports many native features of the various networks, such as file transfer, away messages, typing notification, and MSN window closing notification.
Portable NVU
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_nvu/)
Nvu is a web authoring system (like FrontPage or DreamWeaver) that features WYSIWYG editing of web pages, integrated file management via FTP and tabbed editing that makes working on multiple pages a snap. It includes support for forms, tables, and templates. Portable NVU is a special build of NVU that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Portable Thunderbird
Website (http://johnhaller.com/jh/mozilla/portable_thunderbird/)
Mozilla Thunderbird is an email client with SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, NNTP and RSS support. It comes with advanced message filtering, Bayesian spam detector and built-in spell checker, Portable Thunderbird is a special build of Mozilla Thunderbird that is optimized for use on a USB *** drive. It has some specially-selected optimizations to make it perform faster and extend the life of your USB *** as well as a specialized launcher that will allow most of your favorite extensions to work as you switch computers.
Uniform Server
Website (http://www.uniformserver.com/index.php?us=plugins)
The Uniform Server is a complete web development system on the move. It contains Apache, PHP, MySQL and Perl. There are additional plugins that you can download at the website that will extend the system with FTP server and Java servlet support. It also includes MediaWiki preinstalled and configured.