Archive for February, 2010

Portable App: Notepad++

Notepad++ Portable is the handy Notepad++ text editor packaged as a portable app so you can do your development on the go. It has all the same great features of Notepad++ including support for multiple languages and an extensive plugin system, but there’s nothing to install.

  • Publisher: PortableApps.com and the Notepad++ Team
  • Date updated: 2010-02-24
  • System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
  • License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
  • Source Code: Launcher (Included), Notepad++ source
  • MD5 Hash (for the geeks): a4d7e048af4731214dfbfcc0d718d6b4
  • Downloads: Over 1.4 million

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Portable Game: Atomic Tanks

Atomic Tanks is a game in which you control an overly-powerful tank and attempt to blow up other highly powerful tanks. Players get to select a number of weapons and defensive items and then attack each other in a turn-based manner. The last tank standing is the winner.

  • Publisher: PortableApps.com (Simeon) and The Atomic Tanks developers
  • Date updated: 2010-02-06
  • System Requirements: Windows 2000/XP/Vista
  • License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
  • Source Code: launcher source (included), Atomic Tanks Source file as Source (Atomic Tanks)
  • MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 9014b1be2dd430ffb01eef6926c5d613

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Portable Game: LBreakout2

LBreakout2 Portable is a fun breakout-style arcade game packaged as a portable app so you can play it wherever you go. You can place it on your USB flash drive, iPod, portable hard drive or a CD and use it on any computer, without leaving any personal information behind.

  • Publisher: PortableApps.com (Simeon Kühl) and the LBreakout2 Developers
  • Date updated: 2010-02-02
  • System Requirements: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7
  • License: Free / Open Source (GPL)
  • Source Code: launcher source (included), LBreakout2 source
  • MD5 Hash (for the geeks): 1dd95a28252059ec12344e7a0fd892f6

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI: Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.

Prime Minister Max Bellerive told the Associated Press on Sunday he was outraged by the group’s ”illegal trafficking of children” in a country long afflicted by the scourge and by foreign meddling.

But the hard reality on the ground in this desperately poor country — especially after the catastrophic Jan. 12 quake — is that some parents openly attest to their willingness to part with their children if it will mean a Read the rest of this entry