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Testing of beta versions of apps before public release.

PortableApps.com Platform 2.0 Beta 4 Testing

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 2, 2010 - 7:58pm

Ok, now that we've gotten 1.6 out and done a bit of a reset on what 2.0 will be, I've posted 2.0 Beta 4. This is mainly a rebuild of 2.0 Beta 3 with the 1.6 localizations, minor fixes, Windows 7 taskbar and new installer. So, this is a quick update for those on the beta track adding in all the new fixes and enhancements. We'll be following this up with Beta 5 later this month with some of the long-awaited new features (there's no need to bring them up again... we know... they're coming).

What's New in 2.0 Beta 4 from 1.6?


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Development Test - Forum Posting Layout

Submitted by Patrick Patience on March 7, 2008 - 7:51pm

To make it more clear for the average user, as well as the Beta Testing Team to download and test your portable application, please try to follow this template when posting a development test release. This template helps to easily identify information about the application.


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Forum Guidelines: Beta Testing

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 14, 2006 - 3:31am

The Beta Testing Forum is used to provide test versions of applications that aren't yet ready for wide use, but could use the input of willing participants to test them out to hammer out any bugs, as well as offer comments and criticisms of the application so the developers can make changes before widespread public release.

Any developers may post beta testing notices here whether their apps are hosted by PortableApps.com or not. But these should be legitimate beta tests only, not an attempt to drive traffic to your own site.


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HxD Portable 1.7.7.0 Development Test 1 (Freeware)

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Submitted by Bruce on February 8, 2010 - 9:54am

Application: HxD
Category: Utilities
Description: HxD is a carefully designed and fast hex editor which, additionally to raw disk editing and modifying of main memory (RAM), handles files of any size.

The easy to use interface offers features such as searching and replacing, exporting, checksums/digests, insertion of byte patterns, a file shredder, concatenation or splitting of files, statistics and much more.

Editing works like in a text editor with a focus on a simple and task-oriented operation, as such functions were streamlined to hide differences that are purely technical.
For example, drives and memory are presented similar to a file and are shown as a whole, in contrast to a sector/region-limited view that cuts off data which potentially belongs together. Drives and memory can be edited the same way as a regular file including support for undo. In addition memory-sections define a foldable region and inaccessible sections are hidden by default.

Furthermore a lot of effort was put into making operations fast and efficient, instead of forcing you to use specialized functions for technical reasons or arbitrarily limiting file sizes. This includes a responsive interface and progress indicators for lengthy operations.


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Steam Portable 0.2 Developement Test 1

Submitted by Benedikt93 on February 7, 2010 - 7:14am

Application: Steam
Category: Games
Description: Steam is a platform to play a lot of Steam-enabled games from any PC with Steam installed, join the community and chat with your friends.

Download Steam Portable 0.2 Development Test 1 [542KB download / 477KB installed]
(MD5: 2df74e7860a68ea8f5ce029155aadeef)

IMPORTANT NOTE:


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PChat Portable Development Test 2

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Submitted by Zach Thibeau on February 5, 2010 - 9:01pm

Application: PChat
Category: Internet
Description: PChat is free fork of XChat for windows, has all the same features as xchat but minus the shareware components usually found in the official XChat distribution for Windows.
Settings are automatically saved to Data\Settings (also supports custom icons in App\PChat\icons and also plugins can be added at App\PChat\Plugins)


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Inno Setup Portable 5.3.7 Development Test 2

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Submitted by Bruce on February 5, 2010 - 12:52pm

Application: Inno Setup
Category: Development
Description: Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.


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Database Browser Portable 3.2.2.7 Release

Submitted by dbsoftlab on February 5, 2010 - 8:57am

Application: Database Browser
Category: Development
License: Freeware
Description:
This easy to use tool allows user to connect to any database and browse or modify data, execute SQL scripts, export and print data. Works directly with Oracle, MS SQL server, ODBC, PostreSQL, MySQL, Interbase and Firebird


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another free PDF Viewer

Submitted by tal on February 3, 2010 - 1:14pm

it look very good with multiple tab that you can change the
order in the tab (in foxit you just can't you need to open it
in the right order and it very annoying)
and it an a preview for an open tab that you can
look what you opened with out actually to move the next tab
just "hovering" with the mouse.

http://www.box.net/shared/dqtjqiopm8

tell me if you like.
the website of this program:
http://docu-track.com/home/prod_user/PDF-XChange_Tools/pdfx_viewer/

and by the way the download for the foxit it not good:
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/foxit_reader_portable


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Xming Portable

Submitted by tal on February 3, 2010 - 12:46pm

here is a portableapps suite for the program Xming:
http://www.box.net/shared/1x17zsn7jb

here is the original:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xming/

i hope you like it like i do Smiling

thx tal.


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