General Discussion

I was just thinking, inspired by another topic, that for the holidays it would be a cool service for PortableApps to customize flash drives for gifts.

I'm just kinda curious... You know how some games which are distributed on CD don't require you to have the CD in to run the game? How sketchy would it be, legally speaking, to code a launcher for such a game and run it off a flash drive?

I do not know if this is possible but it would be nice to be able to download portable apps in a custom pack. For example, I could view the list of available portable apps and select specific apps to add to a download basket that I can then download. The download will contain a ZIP archive with the installers for the selective apps.

[link removed by moderator JTH. the linked site violates the GPL by not providing source downloads and in the past leeched bandwidth from us by hotlinking images and should not be linked from here.] has this feature and I like it.

I have a notebook battery test application I created that I want to make available as a free, open-source download to the public. The battery test surfs the Web and records the time elapsed until the battery dies.

All morning I've been experiencing an issue with the tracker page. New posts are being listed but a few are stuck as having a "Last post" of "0 secs ago". This persists for minutes and sometimes hours across a refresh/reload. The replies remain marked as new despite my having viewed them before. Something broken on the server perhaps?

I have setup the "PortableApps" suite if you will on my USB flash drive.
I am thrilled with being able to do this so I can have the many apps I use no matter what PC I am on with my own settings.

What I find however, is that some of the apps while they work well, run slower from my flash drive.

One example of this is Firefox. It works great, never really have a problem, but of course does not perform as well.

Ok, so whenever I see the question come up about combining GPL and proprietary software, it's almost always the proprietary dev asking can I use GPL code. My question is, can a GPL'ed program require a (free) proprietary module to work, by not distributing that module and just telling the user to go get it (provided the user can legally obtain this module, and in this case, for free)? My guess is yes, as in say the LAME plugin for Audacity. Just want to clear this up.

I was playing around and I thought of a simple problem that I had, and it was that whenever my flash drive is not in my computer there are still the firefox icons that are associated with firefox portable. If I were to hit refresh on my desktop I would see an ugly icon and that bothered me a little. I created a little python script that I thought might be helpful to people. It tries to detect firefox portable and adds the shortcut in the quick launch and the desktop, but if it cannot find it, it will delete the shortcuts on the desktop and quick launch.

Hi - I would like to know if these portable applications can be loaded on a Noika Tablet? If so, how would I do that.

I`d also like to know if these applications can be loaded on the iPhone or iTouch.

Thanks.

Hi All,

I'm having problems with my father's USB stick. I carried out a few updates for him yesterday, bringing everything up to date (App's Suite menu, Firefox, Thunderbird & Open Office). I then started Firefox to check his add-ons and update them when I hit a problem.

Foxmarks is refusing to update to Xmarks for me, and I've discovered that all the files and folders on the stick are marked "Read-Only". I've tried going to properties and unchecking the flag but it's just being ignored.

Can anyone give me some pointers. Thanks.