Portable Applications…
I had just taken a few photographs of some flowers in our backyard. I came back in the house, plugged in the camera and started downloading the photos. The situation is however that I have packed up my laptop till the end of my exams, so I had to use the desktop which did not have GIMP.
I checked the site for GIMP binaries and found that the download would take a lot of time, so I googled a bit and found out about the portable apps suite.
As the name suggests, portable apps is a set of computer programs which require no installation. You can carry it around with you in any portable device such as a pendrieve, a PMP, a hard disk, etc.
An even more advantageous this is that, once your work is done and you have unplugged the storage device, not a single trace of your activities is left on the host PC. Everything is wiped out and you come out clean (Very useful in most of Indian (at least Maharashtrian) universities where it is possible that you might get sued even for using orkut…).
The extensive list of applications…
- Firefox Web Browser.
- Thunderbird Mail Client.
- Notepad++.
- XAMPP.
- NVU.
- SUDOKU.
- GIMP.
- Pidgin.
- FTP Clients.
- M-Player.
- VLC Media Player.
- Audiacity.
- Abiword.
- Open Office.
- Clam Win Antivirus.
- 7 Zip.
- MAC on Stick.
Moreover, this suite comes with a menu similar to that of the windows start menu. It has functionality to backup your data on a harddrive if you want. The suite comes in 3 editions,
So, with the help of this suite (I had it with me on a CD, just had not used it before this incident), I was able to edit the photo to remove the background and have just the flower as a greeting card…
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