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[This project has been discontinued due to license compliance issues. Thanks everyone who assisted with your ideas and feedback.]

About

  • What is this? - this was a project dedicated to building an up-to-date collection of great, free portable software for easy installation and use.
  • What's in it? - list of included freeware
Releases
  • v. 1.3 beta - note that this release is over a year old and contains very out-of-date software. I haven't worked out how to solve licensing issues. Download

NEWS

Thursday, April 29, 2010

1318 downloads from 71 different countries!

Today's statistics straight from Mininova!

Wow, just wow.

Friday, April 23, 2010

FreeOTFE annoyance fix

I found a solution to one of the problems with FreeOTFE.

Related projects

Two links surfaced on delicious detailing some portable software collections:

Monday, April 19, 2010

Update Kitchen Sink and keep settings?

Someone posted about this and here's my best answer:

I don't know of a way to do that for sure, no.  There are many programs and many different ways of saving one's settings.  Remember however that portable programs have the great talent for running alongside old versions of themselves.  You can keep your settings and still run the latest version.

That said, some of the included programs will neatly sync to the old version and won't interfere with saved settings.  Unfortunately, programs like FileZilla for example require that you have a very specific file: fzdefaults.xml to behave as portable.  This is also where other settings (such as FTP sites) also save setting so overwriting it with the latest version means you'll lose that information.

Here's the best (admittedly not great) way to do it:
  1. Back up programs you use frequently (or the entire archive) whose settings you don't want to lose.
  2. Run FreeFileSync (included in the latest version)
  3. Compare folders between the old kitchen sink and the new kitchen sink
  4. Right-click on files that look like they might contain settings usually with names like "ini" files and "settings" .  Chose "Exclude temporarily"
The updating process is a big problem in software that only programs like Firefox and Thunderbird are so far able to address.

Anyone have suggestions?

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Source code and scam notice

I am gradually starting to host the source code of included programs.  I apologize for not having that out sooner but I thought linking to the sites was enough.  This thread addresses that transition.

Scam notice: Downloadbay is currently hosting a Kitchen Sink 1.3 "crack," which is interesting considering nothing in Kitchen Sink requires registration.  Downloadbay is obviously total crap Google shouldn't even link to.

Thursday, April 8, 2010

Kitchen Sink 1.3 beta

After about 6 months offline, a new release is available.  Feedback here or on the forum welcome!