Free portable application software for mac

Launch Application by Creator-Code is an AppleScript that is able to launch an application by its creator-code, avoiding having to locate it first.

Application Switcher Settings Suite is a set of AppleScripts which allows you to set all possible settings of the Finders Application Switcher menu.
Either you can use "ASSS 1.5" and go thru all possible settings or just one specific applet, i.e. to turn Application Swicher on respective off or change the button ordering.
Enhancements:
- Completed, now with many small applets that change just one feature of the Application Switcher

Portable Gimp.app is the Gimp.app the self contained application bundle of the GNU Image Manipulation Program for OS X by Aaron Voisine packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 165 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your preferences with you.
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Gimp.app" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 125 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Gimp.app" will open Gimp.app from your portable device, wait a while before Gimp start. Portable Gimp.app requires that either Apples X11 or XDarwin be installed. Apples X11 is included in the "Optional Installs" package on the OS X install disk.
There is a bug currently that Gimp.app will not work from within a folder containing any of the following characters: pipe |, forward slash /, backslash , ampersand &, pound #, or double quote ". Any other printable characters should be fine.
Gimp.app is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Enhancements:
- First public release
- 100%stand alone.

Portable Newspeak is Newspeak Cocoa IRC client for Mac OS X packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 2 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking your IRC servers, channels list and saved transcrip with you.
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Newspeak" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 2 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Newspeak" will open Newspeak from your portable device, wait a while before Newspeak start.
3. If a local copy of Newspeak is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data
You can copy your IRC servers, channels list and saved transcript to Portable Newspeak when "Copy preferences" window ask you. So, if you wish to use your IRC servers, channels list, saved transcript and preferences you already have on your system, just click "Yes" when prompt.
Newspeak application and preference file are inside the bundle: PortableNewspeak.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Newspeak chat transcript files are in:"
/Portable Newspeak/Newspeak Transcript folder
Portable Newspeak.app is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper from
http://sveinbjorn.sytes.net/platypus
Support Forum
Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Main features:
- 100% standalone.
- Portable Newspeak is wrapped on application package with Platypus.
- Preference are automatically copied if desired.
- Portable Newspeak ask to quit Newspeak copy already running.

Designed on Adobe CS folder perspective with 256 pixels size. Flash 8, Dreamweaver 8, iTunes folders (with alternative colour and images), Firefox, Thunderbird, .Mac, iLife 06, Developer, pictures, iMovie, Sync, actions, Maxon Cinema 4D, system, generic, graphite, silver, yellow, red, purple, green, orange, etc...

Portable OpenOffice.org OS X is the complete OpenOffice.org office suite - word processor, spreadsheet, presentation tool, drawing package and database - packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 430 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking yall your documents and everything you need with you.
Enhancements:
- Updated to OpenOffice.org 2.0.2
- PPC and Intel binaries available. Get the right one.

Portable Feed is the Feed RSS, Atom newsreader packaged as portable application so you can carry around with you on any portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive,memory card, other portable device (also on your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space and use on any Mac OS X computer, taking all your favorite newsfeeds with you.
How to install
1. Drag "Portable Feed" folder to your portable device, USB thumb drive, iPod, portable hard drive, memory card, other portable device (also to your internal hard disk) as long as it has 10 MB of free space.
2. Clicking "Portable Feed" will open Feed from your portable device, wait a while before Feed start.
3. If a local copy of Feed is running an alert window allow you to quit it.
Using your data- You can copy your user preferences to Portable Feed when "Copy preferences" window asks you. So, if you wish to use your favorite newsfeeds youalready have on your system, just click "Copy" when prompted.
Feed application and preference file are inside the bundle: Portable Feed.app/Contents/Resources/app/
Feed is packaged using the Platypus script wrapper.
Support Forum - Post questions, tips, suggestions, clues, helps, bugs to our OS X Portable Applications support forum.
Enhancements:
- First public release.
- 100% standalone.
- Preference are automatically copied if desired.
- Portable Feed ask to quit Feed copy already running.

Wait for Application is a script application that shows how to wait for a scriptable application to launch before you start sending Apple events to it.

Requires the Style scriptable text editor by Marco Piovanelli and the Standard Additions scripting addition; give it a Finder partition of 350K.