[Closed] Any suggestions on which apps to portablize?

Another useful thing you could do would be performing thorough tests on apps that you'd like to see released and make a list of them and give it to us. At the moment I think testing is probably more helpful than developing more new apps - aside from studying for my exams that I'm about to start, I'm trying to do lots of testing.

Agreed, why not help get the gazillions of apps waiting to be released one step closer.

What the status of NetPanzer? Needs more user testing?

Nice easy one for you. I believe it's inherently portable and stores settings in greenpad.ini

Application: GreenPad
Use: Very lightweight text editor/notepad replacement with user-definable Syntax highlighting, line-numbering, recognizes Windows, Linux and Mac text files, and other standard text editor features like search and replace etc.

License: Not sure exactly, the included readme says this:

  NYSL Version 0.9982  http://www.kmonos.net/nysl/

  A. This software is "Everyone'sWare". It means:
    Anybody who has this software can use it as if you're
    the author.

    A-1. Freeware. No fee is required.
    A-2. You can freely redistribute this software.
    A-3. You can freely modify this software. And the source
        may be used in any software with no limitation.
    A-4. When you release a modified version to public, you
        must publish it with your name.

  B. The author is not responsible for any kind of damages or loss
    while using or misusing this software, which is distributed
    "AS IS". No warranty of any kind is expressed or implied.
    You use AT YOUR OWN RISK.

  C. Copyrighted to k.inaba.

  D. Above three clauses are applied both to source and binary
    form of this software.

So it seems like you can redistribute okay without any issues.

The only downside is that it is no longer in active development, but it is fully functional and I have been using it frequently for the past couple of years without any issues.

Here's a list of what IMO are some of the top development tests that need testing.

In addition to this try porting DVDFlick and/or Media Info.

http://glorylogic.com/trueburner.html OR http://burnaware.com

HTPC-type softwares: MediaPortal (has TIVO-functionality)/XBMC/ http://boxee.en.malavida.com/download OR http://boxee.tv/download /Hulu Desktop/MPC-HC (OLD version https://portableapps.com/node/15030 )

http://StreamTransport.com (their own forum http://rtmpe.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=2 says current version having all sorts of video DLing problems so DL older versions here: http://videohelp.com/tools/StreamTransport/old-versions )

http://applian.com/freecorder ( http://youtube.com/watch?v=NqoYICcRHPQ )

http://MiPony.net and/or http://jdownloader.org/home/index?s=lng_en

http://avast.com free
zonealarm free (I don't think I've seen any portable firewall. Reasons why?)

thanks

If you portabilize (in paf) SOFA Statistics I will be your #1 fan forever...

www.sofastatistics.com and it is open source and free, of course, there are versions for windows, mac and Ubuntu/Mint.

I requested it some weeks ago but nobody answer to do it and I don't want to pull the thread to the top again.

Regards.-

you asked for something popular, but unfortunatly its more then a bit over your 100mb limit...

Scorched 3D
and unless you have never played scorched earth, you will know exactly what it is!

*EDIT*
i went hunting for something eles and came across SuperTux as well...

[Link fixed - mod Chris]

This pdf reader allows you to edit pdf files which makes it allot easier filling out pages

I believe I am not the only one with noch ad min rights on his work machine and the need - okay - wish to sync his work calendar wit Google Calendar.

That'd be really cool to have!

wunderlist looks interesting:

http://www.6wunderkinder.com/wunderlist/

Any word on progress for DVDFlick?

FBreader is a nice simple small E-Book reader application that is just screaming to be made into a portable app and added to the portable apps suite.

What makes this so attractive is that it would give users the ability to put their reader application FBreader plus their entire E-Book library collection together on a thumb drive and take them anywhere.

FBreader is open source and available for the PC, Mac, Linux etc. but seems to be a little poorly documented and is thus a little tricky to set up for some folks, so I can't think of a better candidate for a nice simple portable app.

You could even use FBreader to organize and distribute EPUB versions of portable apps help docs.

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EDIT -
I didn't see anything on your apps menu, or upcoming announce page, which is why I made the above request, but Googling FBreader portable app brought up the page for your BETA FBReader 0.8.7 and FBReader Portable 0.12.10 tests.

The first dates all the way back to 2007 so I guess things have been moving kind of slow.

I try to do my part and get the new FBReader Portable 0.12.10 installed and give you some feedback, because this really is going to be a popular piece of portable software if we can get it working well as a portable app.

MySQL

Well... I'm always after more games, so I thought of a few things

Since the Tron movie is the hot ticket these days, why not make GLTron
http://www.gltron.org/

or Argametron Advanced
http://www.armagetronad.net/

Or Frozen Bubble http://www.frozen-bubble.org/

Oh, what the heck, lets just make a long list of games and you pour through them!
They're all open source and available for Windows so they're yours for the picking

http://freedroid.sourceforge.net/
http://goblinhack.sourceforge.net/
http://www.reptilelabour.com/software/chromium/
http://clanbomber.sourceforge.net/
http://spaceinvadersgl.sourceforge.net/
http://trackballs.sourceforge.net/
http://www.bzflag.org/
http://neverball.org/
http://blocktality.sourceforge.net/
http://tremulous.net/
http://www.nexuiz.com/
http://pingus.seul.org/welcome.html
http://www.secretmaryo.org/
http://www.wormux.org/
http://www.bigorno.net/xrick/ (rick Dangerous level arcade game)
http://zoids-quest.sourceforge.net/
http://olofson.net/kobodl/ (Kobo Deluxe)

And that's just a starter for you

Hope you find something that inspires you,

Cheers!

Not sure if this is possible as the original dev appears to have died and the project has been taken over by someone else without any objection.

QTTabBar -

Original Site - http://qttabbar.wikidot.com/
Original Jap Site (via Google Translate) - http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fq...

New Dev's Site 1 - http://qttabbar.sourceforge.net/
New Dev's Site 2 - http://sourceforge.net/projects/qttabbar/

I have asked the dev if it were possible to make QTTabBar portable, but he has said it isn't due to the nature of the app (or rather extension). I have seen other QT apps that are portable and wondered if you might be able to do something with it?

I hope so as it's simply brilliant, it adds tabs and launcher abilities to windows explorer.

Fingers crossed...!

Thank you for your reply. I didn't hold much hope for it but thought it was worth asking.

What about Q-Dir? that's another good file explorer. Would anyone know if it's possible for Q-Dir to capture windows processes? Again I asked the dev and the reply was simply that he liked the idea and would look into it. Not heard anything since. I would like Q-dir as it has portable file association, which is something I have problems with after performing a complete system recovery.

For example, I use EditPadLite as my default text editor but after a recovery the file association is lost and for some weird reason it won't register - at least not til it wants to, which could be weeks later!! I don't have a clue why. When I try to open a .txt file and use 'open with', I search for EditPad and double click, but it doesn't appear in the list of 'possibles' as the default option?

I prefer EditPad as it has tabs and loads almost instantly, few others do that.

Thanks again and keep up the good work, I'm looking forward to the new PAPv2 release with the extras. Hopefully one of those will be portable file association eh?! lol

File Menu Tools?