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uTorrent help.html file links to dev test page.

Submitted by scriptdaemon on November 21, 2009 - 2:17pm

I just came across this, uTorrent's help file links to the development test page instead of its official PA.c page.

EDIT: The link is also wrong in the Readme file in the Source directory.


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aMSN Portable settings disappear after moving to different drive

Submitted by songsh on November 20, 2009 - 5:07pm

Hi, I installed aMSN portable to a USB Drive but i noticed that if the drive changes, all of the settings disappear. (For example, copying over the entire folder to the C Drive will make the program appear as if it was just downloaded... aka no settings)

the files seems to be still in the DATA folder but it's not being recognized for some reason. Is there any fix to this? Thanks for your time

P.S. System is Windows XP Media Center Ed. 2004 (Service pack 3)


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aMSN

Submitted by sl23 on November 19, 2009 - 10:26am

I've tried to follow instructions here:
http://amsn.sourceforge.net/devwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Webcam+In+aMSN#f...

But am unable to understand what the hell it means:/


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gVimPortable 7.2 spaces in path

Submitted by ronh on November 19, 2009 - 7:31am

Hi,
This is a new problem that wasn't present in the pre-release version of gVimPortable 7.2
When gVim is installed with spaces in its path, the :make command will complain that it "Can't open errorfile [path_to_gvim\Data\temp\VIe####.tmp]".
I use Win7beta and msys shell with make.


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TeamViewer & ZoneAlarm

Submitted by WiMax on November 17, 2009 - 10:48pm

Greetings; I am using Portable TeamViewerto do obligatory "free" tech support for family and a few friends. TV now allows me to resolve issues without the drive time and expense. My family is quite happy as their issues get resolved far faster than before.


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Skype - moving over histories

Submitted by richlipps on November 16, 2009 - 11:02pm

I just got the portable skype app that was made available Oct 23, very glad to see this come along as I use a separate computer at the office and at home and very eager to have skype histories and chats all on one. Never used portableapps before but intend to set up their firefox momentarily as I have a new computer and I’m going to put both on the mobile drive.

I have a question: I have all my call and chat history backed up from my old c: drive, can I just paste this over the portableapps Skype Portable and if so, where exactly? The directory where I have the info backed up is:


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FYI Bible program

Submitted by exscentric on November 16, 2009 - 8:22pm

There is a new (new to me anyway Smiling free Bible program that works off of a usb stick. Might be adaptable to PA, if not could be an asset to some anyway. It has similar resources to Sword and E-sword.

http://www.theword.gr


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Slight errors in download apps.

Submitted by Stevoisiak on November 16, 2009 - 4:36pm

On the download page for AssaultCube, it says,

AssaultCube is a free and open source first-person shooter fith the following features

and

Thanks to the efficient networking code, AssaultCube requires very little bandwith, you can play it with a 56k modem internet connection.

And lastly, shouldn't Java Portable, Java Portable Launcher, and Mac-On-A-Stick be listed as freeware?


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Portable Chrome Dev Build (4.0.237.0) forgets ALL settings

Submitted by usn.mustanger on November 14, 2009 - 3:46pm

Just d/l'ed the latest Dev Build (4.0.237.0) from PortableApps.com, and I'm running it from a network drive (personal Docs folder on LAN only accessible to me) from within the PortableApps folder.
It works great except that every time I close and then reopen, I lose all themes, extensions, passwords, etc. It seems that no settings, including those from the Options dialog, are saved. Going to chrome://extensions/ says no extensions are installed, even though I did install two in a previous session, and they worked fine.


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blender.exe flagged by SOPHOS antivirus

Submitted by Mr_Gamgee on November 13, 2009 - 6:57am

My network IT team have just picked up an alert about file: blenderportable\App\Blender\blender.exe

Its been flagged and quarantined with suspicious behavior by Sophos Anti-Virus.

Sophos v 7.6.13 last updated 13-11-2009 10:01

BlenderPortable 2.49b

Probably a false positive. But you maybe should be aware.


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