Think about all of the software you've got installed on your computer. Almost all of us have some alternative of Google Chrome, Spotify, Evernote, OpenOffice, IrfanView, and more. Software of these types are pretty essential to any PC user. It's one of the first things that you toss on your brand new desktop or laptop when you take it out of the box and set it up.

Windows 8 has managed to do a pretty decent job of putting all of your favorite and most-used applications right in your face with their rendition of the startup screen. Not all of us fancy it though. I personally skip straight the desktop. With all of these commonly-used applications so separated, daily tasks can seem like a hassle. Ubiquitous Player makes an attempt at alleviating that and serving as your Swiss Army Knife of application goodies.

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Ubiquitous Player is a completely portable application that runs on any version of Windows from XP onward. It's 100% free and even works on tablet or touchscreen devices. This application aims to serve every purpose of your daily PC routine. It's packed with a media player, image viewer, file manager, text editor, browser, bookmark manager, notes keeper, calculator, color picker, screenshot tool, clipboard monitor, and even more.

Ubiquitous Player's interface is very sleek and attractive. Let's pick apart some of its many uses.

Music Player

The music player offers pretty much everything the average user needs to enjoy their music collection. You can organize a playlist and view album art (in the top-right corner) within Ubiquitous Player.

You're able to play an entire folder, play random tracks, set a track to just play once, and skip to the next album in your folder to play it in its entirety. Ubiquitous Player includes all basic media keys to start, stop, skip, go back, and change the volume of its player. Ubiquitous Player's music player isn't entirely impressive, yet it's everything you should need.

Notes

Ubiquitous Player's take on notes is very bare and straightforward. As you can see in some of the examples above, note-taking is composed of "folders" (which simply act as a header describing a list of notes) and then line-by-line notes beneath them.

Obviously this doesn't compare to an Evernote or CintaNotes, but it's very quick, good for jotting down simple things, and even supports searching your notes.

Image Viewer

The image viewer offers some interesting features. Just using your left-click button, you're able to navigate through to the next image in a folder. With each individual image, you have options to view it at its actual size, cut the image, rotate it, change the backdrop to black or white, or resave the image as either PNG, JPG, BMP, or JPEG. All images show the dimensions, size, and date modified.

When you're hunting through a cluttered folder, Ubiquitous Player's image viewer is a great way to look at images quickly and easily.

Text Editor

Ubiquitous Player's text editor is a very straightforward alternative to Notepad. You're able to format your text in a few ways, such as changing the font face, size, and color. You're able to immediately access a special characters map from within the interface. You can also view your text in HTML format using the built-in browser.

The settings allow you to activate a touchscreen mode, change the interface scaling, and even set hotkeys related to screen capturing (all of which I used to take the screenshots in this post).

Conclusion

Ubiquitous Player isn't the type of application to exceed your expectations. It definitely isn't going to be a replacement for any of the dedicated applications that exist as alternatives for some of its built-in features, but it does well for bringing so many elements together in a single interface. It's the kind of application that could work best on low-resource machines (like a netbook).

What do you think of Ubiquitous Player and the features it provides? What can Ubiquitous Player do better? I think it's a really solid application that deserves some attention, and I hope you give it a try if it interests you. Let me know what you think about Ubiquitous Player in the comments section below!