Right then, as I am now properly host here on PA.com I thought that I would clear the blog out and start afresh. I'll be putting up some info about Toucan:TheNextBigVersion (Toucan:TNBV) in the next week or so but I'd like to start by putting up the download statistics for the month of August, basically I wanted to see how Toucan was comparing to the rest of the site, so here they are:
| Name | Number of Downloads |
|---|
| Firefox | 173,589 |
| Suite Standard | 99,224 |
| VLC | 72,808 |
| Thunderbird | 66,745 |
| Clamwin | 64,804 |
| 7-Zip | 60,690 |
| GIMP | 57,339 |
| Openoffice | 54,964 |
| Notepad++ | 51,755 |
| Sumatra PDF | 42,412 |
| Toucan | 42,174 |
| Pidgin | 40,234 |
| FileZilla | 35,156 |
| Audacity | 30,642 |
| Suite Base | 30,134 |
| Kompozer & Nvu | 29,831 |
| KeyPass | 29,112 |
| MPlayer | 28,028 |
| Eraser | 26,702 |
| Suite Lite | 23,628 |
| PokerTH | 23,616 |
| Sudoku | 23,567 |
| Putty | 22,754 |
| VitrualDub | 21,174 |
| Miranda | 21,155 |
| Abiword | 20,622 |
| Comand Prompt | 17,980 |
| WinSCP | 16,973 |
| Sunbird | 16,199 |
| Mines-Perfect | 12,218 |
| winMd5Sum | 11,668 |
| OSK | 10,431 |
| VMG | 8,285 |
| DosBox | 6,874 |
So it seems thatT oucan is holding its own quite well at eleventh, we'll see what happens next month.
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Comments
Thanks for that list
I am surprised that VLC is so popular...
Same about Sumatra.
No surprise about the leader Firefox though.
“I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong.” - Richard P. Feynman
Indeed not,
although I was surprised by how high 7zip was.
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Author of Toucan
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Missing USB plug in splash
Hi Steve,
First off, thanks for the great backup utility you've made. I really like the simple yet pretty powerful interface that Toucan has. I noticed that the 1.1.2 version doesn't have a USB plug in its splash as all the other official portable apps do.
Was this on purpose? Nothing real big, just caught my eye once on loadup.
Again, thanks for the great program.
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I'm
glad you like it! As for the missing USB plug that is because Toucan was written from the ground up to be portable, whereas the other apps on this site use launchers to make them portable, hence the plug.
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Author of Toucan
'...and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard...' JFK
Popularity / Utility
Thanks for the great app.
I think that Toucan is absolute must for portable computing. It is quite easy to lose a flash drive. To me it is very important that I can carry around personal stuff encrypted. Backup could be done via a simple script, albeit it is nice to use Toucan's interface.
Self contained and reliable encryption is something completely different and a step ahead; I think that _is_ what gives Toucan an edge. I think that rating is pretty good, after all not everybody is worrying about backup - for example if you don't put your work or private data there - why bother.
Robert