One of my favorite natively portable freeware launchers, Cylog Toolbox, has posted a beta for their 3.0 release. I've been following them on Twitter, and they've done a lot of work on this major release.
Check out the list of new features (under Coming up in ToolBox v3.00):
http://www.cylog.org/utilities/toolbox.jsp
Even the old version had some great stuff, like drag-and-drop shortcuts, switch to relative paths at the click of a button, change icons easily, wallpaper and transparency backgrounds, and support for multiple toolboxes.
I find that toolbox makes an excellent adjunct to the PAP menu - I can make toolboxes to categorize my apps, and make quick links to custom folders or commonly used files. Check it out!
UPDATE: I've been checking out the beta, and it is very impressive. At this point, I'm 100% sold on using this as a portable desktop. You can anchor it so it stays like a background. The background of the toolbox can be transparent, or use the current windows background, or use a BMP (tiled, filled stretched or centered). While you can't store actual document files on the desktop, you can drag and drop any file onto it to create a shortcut. They've added a quick settings tab to get noobs started, and they'll be adding support for themes.
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I love this application. I don't know why, like you said, it's not really my main app launcher but it does supplement a menu type launcher quickly nicely. It's also great for non tech-savvy users because it's very visual.
The developer/team are great, I've given them a few suggestions over the months/years and they always seems responsive and open to new ideas.
Looking forward to seeing what's coming.
Just started beta testing, and here are some things that may interest Portable Apps users.
Quite promising.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
See update.
I made this half-pony, half-monkey monster to please you.
Solanus,
Are you still using Toolbox? I just found it here recently and I love it - honestly, I think I could use it as my primary USB launcher save for one small thing:
I can't find a way to close the program and eject the USB drive as a "one click" option as in PAM.
I was able to write a plugin for Appetizer that accomplished it but I can find anyway to do that with Toolbox.