Still, you may need an image editing tool that isn’t web-based (e.g.

Image editing software is available in plenty. You can find my list of cool flash drives online. I bet my colleague, Peggy Reimers, would love this robot USB flash drive (shown right in silver but available in pink, too for my other colleague, Diana Benner). But you can also get one in the shape of your favorite, well, whatever. Sure, you can get a boring USB flash drive or pendrive. It can open and extract 180+ archive formats: 001, 7Z, ACE(*), ARC, ARJ, BZ2, CAB, DMG, GZ, ISO, LHA, PAQ, PEA, RAR, TAR, UDF, WIM, XZ, ZIP ZIPX. You may be familiar with WinRAR and WinZip. It is cross-platform, full-featured and a user-friendly alternative to other compression tools. It bases itself on Open Source technologies of 7-Zip, p7zip, FreeArc, PAQ, and PEA projects. This makes it a nice feature to have to safeguard data on the go.įrom their website, you can see this description: This compression tool also offers AES-256 encryption of files and folders. You may prefer MakeUseOf’s recommendation of 7-zip Portable for file compression utility. Need to compress files or folders? Or you may need to protect data? You can compress and encrypt confidential data before sending it via email. Isn’t that amazing? This is a must-have portable app to have in your toolkit.

Images: BMP, PCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, WMF, EMF, PSDīesides being able to view those file formats, you can export text from formats like the ones below:Įven better, STDU Viewer is freeware for private, non-commercial, or educational use.

EBooks: FB2, TXT, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX.

Documents: TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, JBIG2, WWF.

Or you may not want to upload it to Google Docs. Need a quick way to view an unfamiliar document? You may not have MS Office or ebook viewer handy. That aside, you may want to use Lightshot if you need a full-featured screenshot tool in the browser. These features make it a powerful improvement over tools like Lightshot.

Blur text with a Mosaic blur (adjustable) feature.

Use all sorts of lines and add arrowheads to match.

Adjust the font size and color of any text you type on an image while you are annotating it.Run from USB flash drive on your Windows computer.Here’s what Snipaste allows you to do that other tools struggle with or don’t do at all:

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