PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform Version 10.0 (codename: Leo) stable release. This release has automated and customizable folders (aka categories) in the menu, our brand-new theming engine with multiple chrome styles, the Portable App Directory app store for automatic download and installation of portable apps, find-as-you-type search to easily find apps in your ever-growing collection, an improved updater, more-complete translations into more languages and lots more. It's available for immediate download as well as for purchase bundled on the World's Best Flash Drive: The PortableApps.com Companion which we just announced. You can even get free music with your platform download. Read on for all the details...(permalink)
Existing users can automatically update by clicking Manage Apps - Check for Updates
Portable Apps - All Your Favorite Apps, Everywhere
PortableApps.com lets you carry all your favorite apps on a portable device or cloud drive and use them on any PC. Now you can have your own browser with all your bookmarks and extensions, your full office suite, your photo editor, your whole music collecion, your favorite games, your development tools and more. You can have everything you need for work and play with you on every PC you use. At work, at home, at school, visiting family and friends, even while traveling. And all your bookmarks, emails, personal files and settings stay right on your drive, too. Now, every PC becomes your PC.
Portable App Directory™ - Built-In App Store
The PortableApps.com Platform has an app store built right in, so you can find and install the apps you want with just a few clicks. You can find your favorite web browser, popular games, handy utilities, educational tools, image editors, chat programs and more. There are hundreds of free apps available with new apps added every week. With no download limit, you can download one app or one hundred. Best of all, you don't even need to give up your email address to get them.
Organize With Folders, Favorites, Type-To-Find Search and More
You can organize your growing app collection using the customizable menu so you can find the apps you need with ease. You can organize apps into folders automatically or create your own that work the way you think. Pick apps as favorites and they'll always be right at the top for instant access. You can even have the menu learn which apps you use most and keep them front and center. And when you need to find an app quickly, just start typing, and you'll find what you're looking for. When you've found your app, just hit enter and the first app will start right up.
PortableApps.com Updater - Your Apps Are Up To Date
With PortableApps.com, you don't need to worry about making sure your software is up to date. When a new security fix for your browser is released or a new feature in your favorite game is available, the PortableApps.com Updater will automatically let you know. Just click a button and the updates are downloaded and installed without messing up your settings and saved files. And if you're in a hurry or using a computer on a slow connection, you can wait until later to update with just a click.
Themes, Colors and Your Personal Menu
Whether you want your menu to look modern or retro, light or dark, glassy or simple, the PortableApps.com Platform has an option for you. With a dozen bundled themes each with a rainbow of color selections, you could pick a different look every day for months and never have the same menu twice. And you can make the menu your own by adding your own personal picture to the upper right-hand corner.
Portable Fonts
The PortableApps.com Platform supports the ability to carry fonts on your portable device and use them with your portable software without needing to install them on the local machine. Now when you're working on that important presentation for work or that poster for your charity drive, you can be as creative as you like with the look and still have it look and print the same on every computer you use. TrueType (TTF), OpenType (OTF), TrueType Collections (TTC) and other font formats are all supported.
Advanced Features
Whether you want to only see open source software, hide the word "Portable" in your app names, hide splash screens, automatically start apps when you start the menu, tweak the look and functionality of the menu or start checking out beta versions of our software, the PortableApps.com Platform has the power - and the options - to work the way you want it to. And if there's something we haven't added yet that you'd like to see, just ask in the forums. We add new features every month!
World's Best Flash Drive: The PortableApps.com Companion
If you'd like a speedy new flash drive to use with the new platform, we just announced the World's Best Flash Drive: The PortableApps.com Companion. This durable USB 3.0 drive comes laser-etched with your name, URL or other text and is a great way to carry your software with you. It's backed by a lifetime warranty, comes in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB sizes, and starts at under $40. Best of all, sales help support the PortableApps.com project and our mission to change the world of software!
Free Music - Critically-Acclaimed Single From Two Seconds To Midnight
As a special bonus to PortableApps.com users, we've included a free copy of the critically-acclaimed single opt1m1sm from Two Seconds To Midnight's debut album. This song has been featured in HBO's Boardwalk Empire. Just select the "+ Free Music" download from the platform download page and it will be placed in your Documents\Music folder. Existing users who have already upgraded, can download the Free Music package and install it right over their existing PortableApps.com Platform installation.
Sponsor the PortableApps.com Platform! Be Part Of The Action!
Now you can sponsor the PortableApps.com Platform and help us keep delivering awesome software for free. With options ranging from having your name included to a full-blown site-wide sponsorship, there's a good fit for everyone. Sponsor us today and be a part of the action!
We also accept donations of any size to help with development and hosting:
- Please help support PortableApps.com's development and hosting
Discussing The Release, Enhancements and Bug Reports
As there is much to discuss with this new release, we've separated out a few forum threads for discussing:
- Platform bug reports
- Default app organization settings and "smart" list sorting
- Language updates and changes
- Portable Apps that have outdated installers and need an update to better work with the new app store
Next Steps: 10.1, 11.0 and Beyond
We're already working on the next release of the PortableApps.com Platform and switching to our new monthly release cycle. If you'd like to automatically help test the next beta, just turn on Beta channel releases on the Advanced tab in your platform Options window.
Download Today
You can download the new version of the PortableApps.com Platform from the download page. Get it today!
Please note that any bug reports go in the PortableApps.com Platform Bug Reports Topic.
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Coming
If you look at the bug report and upcoming feature list (linked on the main post) you'll see that it's coming, along with several other imprtant features. But it wouldn't make sense to wait months for them all to be done to do another stable release. So, as stated above, we'll be doing another major release every month or so with one of these new features. File associations will likely drop in 11.0, which may launch in January after we get 10.1 with keyboard navigation and screen reader accessibility out later this month or early next month. I could have landed simple file associations in this release, but as with categories and app organization, we wanted it to just work right (and as seamlessly as possible) rather than do something half-assed that required the user to do lots of configuring.
"We're already working on the
"We're already working on the next release of the PortableApps.com Platform and switching to our new monthly release cycle. If you'd like to automatically help test the next beta, just turn on Beta channel releases on the Advanced tab in your platform Options window."
When will Platform 11.0 come?
BTW, did you take the idea from Chrome and Firefox?
When It's Done
As you've heard us say dozens of times: When It's Done. Now please stop asking questions you already know the answer to and just relax for a while
Come to think of it, should
Come to think of it, should we stop new apps because we have enough apps in the App Directory? Maybe you should focus on the platform instead.
EDIT: Besides, IMHO, we have lot of apps, and we don't need to have more.
Stop it.
Stop it. Now.
changing the subject BULK purchases of the PA drives??
If somebody wanted to get say a couple/few dozen drives (all with the same engraving) is there anything special that needs to be done??
Also what is Preloaded on the drives??
Monthly release cycle?
Apps have been getting updated, which is great, but what in the world happened to the monthly release cycle for the Platform?
Thanks to John and everyone else for all of the effort.
Thanks in advance for an update on the Platform situation.
Monthly ?
Surely you didn't believe it did you ?
True
Very true. Knowing the track record of platform releases around here over the last 2 years, I should have not been so quick to believe all of the talk.
You know the old saying...
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me."
Well, shame on me...
Missing News Entry
Hi John,
I was wondering if something happened to one of the latest news entries. I saw it there a few days ago about an update on the Installer (I think) and meant to come back to it and read it. I don't see it any more.
Best regards,
-n8
Here
https://portableapps.com/node/31623
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