Blogs

In this post, I will talk about Google's new web-based app, a calendar program.

Today, Google released a calendar app for its account-holders (If you aren't one, get an invite from a buddy who is, as Google is the future!). It is quite basic, but it can import calendars from all of the major apps (I'm not sure about Sunbird, but I think that Sunbird uses the same iCal format that Google already supports). The interface is as always easy to use and good-looking. It even has a feature to let you search for events in your calendar. In addition, you can set who has access to your calendar, so your family and friends can see your calendar and add their events too. Go check it out!

HowTo: Put HM NIS Edit on your USB drive.

HM NIS Edit is an NSIS editor and InstallOptions Designer. I love the fact that when you hover over a command, it gives you basic syntax, and when you click on a command and press F1, it brings up the help for that command.

Get it here: hmne.sourceforge.net

The following tutorial assumes you already have HM NIS Edit.
HM NIS Edit will hereby be referred to as HMNE.

In this post, I will discuss a web-delivered IM application called Meebo.

Meebo is an AJAX app that allows logging in to AIM/ICQ, MSN, YAHOO!, and Jabber/GTalk. It is entirely web-based and can be run on any browser that has JavaScript enabled. I find it highly useful in places where I don't have my USB stick or where the computers have been locked down by gestapo IT folks. It has a nice interface that is easy to use even for people new to computers. The two things that I find lacking is the inability to have groupchats and the lack of IRC support (which I don't use too much anymore anyway). All things considered, it is extremely good, I highly recommend that you try it out.

After toying with it for quite some time, I've finally come up with a version of Portable Notepad2 I consider worthy of public release -- PortableNotepad2 0.4.

Portable Notepad2 lets you use the Notepad2 text editor on the go, without leaving mess behind on the current computer. Get it here.

Enjoy!

In this post, I will talk about an AJAX-delivered application called AjaxWrite.

AJAX, which stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML is a platform used for many web-delivered programs. In this case, it is used to deliver a word processor on the web. It is quite simple, but it gets the job done for smaller projects. It has most of the features that I use daily for reports and such. I usually don't have tons of formatting in my documents anyway, so AjaxWrite works fine for me. It is still in beta, so they have some on and off problems, but it can save in .doc, .odt, and a host of other formats. You can also upload from your desktop (USB key). They also have a drawing program called AjaxSketch and promote a video editing suite online called Eyespot. They plan on releasing an app every week at 12:00 PST, which is quite ambitious. Apps you can expect soon (they are launched on http://www.ajaxlaunch.com) include a spreadsheet (YAY!! A portable one finally!!) and a presentation program like PowerPoint. I should mention here that IE is not supported, only Gecko-based browsers are (Firefox, Epiphany, Netscape, Moz Suite, etc). They do plan to incorporate IE and Opera support later. All in all, a great app.

I thought it was about time to post all of my past PortableApps-related projects. This is not only to show what I've done in the past when it comes to portable applications, but also to stand as an archive for my own personal use. I'll hopefully have the chance to turn these into actual project pages one day. Maybe when I get my new website up and running.

• Portable WackGet
  WackGet is a simple download manager. Portable WackGet saves all settings in the application directory.
• Portable Skype

Some Ideas for updates and new programs I have been throwing around in my head.
Well, I have been thinking about ideas over the last few weeks. Ideas for my programs as updates or new ideas for new programs or ways to fix problems. Here are a few I have come up with.

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My Programs or Those I Help With - Possible Updates:

Registry Rapper:

• The ability to have only one instance of regrapper.exe on the drive. Using either dynamically created INI files or static ones pointed to the exe location.

Want to learn a bit of NSIS, so you can write your own installer -- or, even better -- your own portable app? I can't provide a full-fledged tutorial -- for that you'd have to hunt around the NSIS website -- but I can provide this useful template and a few basic NSIS commands you'll find useful. Enjoy!

Use this template and replace the bolded text, and you'll have a basic NSIS script (which doesn't do anything). Click here to see some basic commands.

If you want your drive to automatically run an executable when you plug it in, and you don't want to buy a U3 drive, you're in luck. Here's what you do:

First, you have to make sure the computer you're at supports this trick. Insert a USB flash drive into the computer; a dialog box should pop up asking what action you want to take. If that dialog box appears, then this trick will work.

Open up Notepad or another text editor, and type in the following code:

In this post, I will talk about a minimalistic text editor called SavageEd.

SavageEd is basically a very small notepad replacement. It weighs in at only 25KB. To make it portable though, you have to go to Options>Save Configuration>Use Private Profile. This will make it use an INI file instead of the registry. All you need from the ZIP package is SavageEd.exe, so just grab that.

http://www.geocities.com/kahlinor/SavageEd.html

-Justin