Create A Portable Software Program

We have a large collection of freeware programs and custom scripts and it is getting ever difficult to find, organize, update and launch the tools when fixing computers. We want to hire a coder to create a portable software utility program that will allow us to add (store), edit, organize into categories, launch, download, and auto-update any freeware (and commercial) software tools we want from one central, user-friendly interface. There is already an open-source framework for this. It's http://www.portableapps.com. There is also an updater add-on for [login to view URL] which is also completely free and open-source. You can use this in your efforts as well: [login to view URL] We would like the selected coder to take the Portable Apps framework, customize it with our logo, and built out the functionality (please see other sections for list of functionality). ## Deliverables Here is a breakdown of the features we want built in: * The software will be portable so that it can be launched from a thumb drive or CD without installation? * The software? will? allow us to store a list of freeware software tools and organize that list into categories (for easy organization) * The design of the software user interface should be modern, clean and professional looking. * The software will have a button that allows us to auto-download each freeware tool from it's original website (when we add freeware tools to the list we will store the direct download link from the website) * The software will have a button that 'auto-updates' each freeware tool stored on the list. Most likely this will work by checking back with the original website of each tool and seeing if a newer version is available. * The software will have some sort of license feature where it needs to be 'unlocked' with a keycode generated through an online sign-up form. We are open to suggestions on how to make this work. We just want to be able to control who has access to our software. * The software? will be able to launch from a thumb drive, hard drive, or cd without needing to be installed (it will be portable). * The software? will? be compatible with Windows XP, Vista, 7 & Mac 10.0 and higher (if separate versions of this software are needed for Windows, and Mac, that is ok) * There should be a trial version of the software that only works for 14 days and then expires forever. We will use this to distribute to people to test the software out before buying it. * The colors and style of the software user interface? will? match my existing website: [login to view URL] (I have uploaded a .zip of the psd of [login to view URL]) * The software? will? incorporate my logo (also included in attached .zip). The design? will? be mostly all white with dark grey and light grey text like the text on this page: [login to view URL] I also really like the white buttons on the right hand side of the above link. They have a slight gradient from white to a very light grey giving them a modern clean look. I also like how they have a light grey rounded border. Also, included in the .zip is the keratin software, pstart software, and all the tools/scripts we want included in the initial release. You are basically combining all the functionality of these two programs under one interface so we don't have to use keratin and pstart and so it is much more userfriendly to use the software. PLEASE NOTE: Right now we are using Keratin (<[login to view URL]>) to store a list of freeware programs we want to keep up-to-date. We are then using PStart (<[login to view URL]>) to run these updated programs from our usb thumb drive. We also have a separate folder where we store various useful scripts to fix computer errors. We are looking for a coder to build us a custom portable desktop application that incorporates the features of Keratin and PStart? and includes a separate section for us to view and launch our custom scripts. We? want this all integrated under one? visually beautiful, and brand-able user-interface so that we can? store new programs, update? programs, launch programs, and launch our scripts? all from the same software file. The software you create must allow us to store the DOWNLOAD LINKS of all the software and not actually store the software itself. We will be distributing this software to other computer techs and it's illegal to actually distribute the software tools stored. Your software should just store the DOWNLOAD LINKS so that when a user launches the software he/she can then click "Download All" and each software will automatically be downloaded and stored in a relative folder for future deployment.