Portable App Development

I don't know about the rest of you, but sometimes I have (almost) lost my USB drive. When I thought I lost it, I began wondering what a good idea it would be if there was a way to encrypt the drive, so that no one else can use it, and since my name and address is already on it, they might return it to me. I know this is probably really hard, since you can just reformat the disk, but I've seen software like this on some USB drives (really expensive though), so it should be possible to create a free one right? Comments/ideas/suggestion, I'm all ears. It would be really nice if someone could crea

The title says it all. While changing my PFF context menu in firefox\chrome\browser.jar I noticed the JAR wasn't compressed. It dropped from 1.101KB to 337KB after zipping.
So is there a disadvantage to compressing them all?
BTW I store PortableFirefox on a HDD-based MP-3Player. Does this count as "IPod or MP3-Player" or as "Portable Harddrive" in my Account-settings?

New idea It seems I'm going to annoy you more

A program for backing up configuration files (bookmarks, extensions) of Thunderbird, Firefox, etc. will be really great. Plus, update function will be good too.

Good or bad idea???

I have a problem about suites. I only have 2 choices and it's not enough. I need Firefox, Thunderbird, NVU, Sunbird, FileZilla, Gaim and PStart but there isn't any suite contains that files.

So I said "a suit maker would be great!"
I am using PHP for 1 year. There is a gz library which allows to zip and unzip .gz files. By using that library we can create a suite maker page.

Hi,
I would like to present a launcher in the public domain (CC licence) named "AeTrayMenu". It's easy to customise, and the sources are available on the web site of the author (developped in Delphi ).

url :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~broekroo/aetraymenu/

Hi,
i'd like to ask, "How do i submit some patch for Portable Firefox?". i've written some patch to fix the problem of Chinese BIG5 Character, a kind of NON-ASCII Character. i'd like to submit it. How do i do that? Thanks.

I use several Java-executable apps on my USB thumb-drive. These should not require additional development (but this seemed the best forum anyway

PLCash.jar - a personal finance program
JTides.jar - a tides calculator
SatFinder.jar - a satellite finder (for television, hams, etc)

All the above can be found at http://www.arachnoid.com. Be sure to read the developer's statement about what he calls "CareWare".

This may sound rather simple and unimportant, but I have been trying to figure out a way to create a shortcut on the root of the drive, to my portable apps execution files within thier respective folders. I have been able to create batch files that work, but I would like to assign icons to the "shortcuts" so they are more easily distinguished from one another. Any thoughts?

I would suggest using a shorter Friendly Cache name, ie instead of:

"PortableOpenOffice Launcher runs OpenOffice from a removable drive",
only
"PortableOpenOffice"

I modified it manually, but I think it would be better that the default one is shorter.

Best regards,
Mguel