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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Splash screens

Submitted by m2 on September 17, 2007 - 1:17pm

The problem was raised before, but I'm in desperation and decided to make a solution myself.
Splash screens sometimes disappear too soon, sometimes too late because of fixed timeout.
Solution: Detect when the main application window shows up and hide the splash screen then. I think I can modify the NSIS plugin to make it work this way.

Can anyone recommend a secure flash drive?

Submitted by charlec on September 17, 2007 - 12:35pm

I'm looking for a hardware based secure flash drive. I'm currently looking at the Kingston Data Traveler Secure (Privacy Edition) 4Gb. Has anyone used one of these? Where do you recommend buying from in the UK - I usually use mymemory.co.uk but they don't sell the Privacy Edition.

Thanks in advance!

Newbie

Submitted by Master_tarquin on September 17, 2007 - 11:31am

Hi
I have recently read about the portable apps, site and just joined up. i have a USB flashdrive and, want to put the web surfing program on, but i don’t know which program to download to it. Can anyone help please?

Also can any one tell me about the Keepass password safe. program.
Thanks.

portableapps.com auto update?

Submitted by relequestual on September 16, 2007 - 6:11pm

would it not be a good idea to have an auto update feature in portable apps launcher. (apart from for FF obviously)

I know this would be handy for me, and it could be done only for the official portable apps that appear here! at least something that tells you which ones are out of date.
auto updater would be even better, even if it just downloaded and ran the installers (for portables) in sequence.

i did search but couldnt find anything on the forum about the prospect of this

ideas?

POS 1.0 installation trouble on M$Win2k

Submitted by JamesSoCal on September 13, 2007 - 12:54pm

OS Win2k fully updated, Firefox 2.0.0.6, Open Office 2.2.1, Thunderbird 2.0.0.6, Zone Alarm 7.0.337 loaded + other apps.

When I tried to install POS 1.0 on a PNY Tech Attache 2G flash drive in N:\\PortableApps\PASuite with the downloaded .exe file in that location as well I received over 2300 errors in the log spread across all apps in the suite. The installed PortableApps (installed under PASuite by the installer) is 151 MB with 3,661 files in 529 folders. I also have the patch .exe, in the same PASuite folder, for OS's earlier than XP.

help after anti virus

Submitted by arnauldbordes on September 13, 2007 - 11:19am

Hello,

after having plug-in my usb key, with a lot of port applications, in a chinese computer running a chinese anti virus, the chinese anti virus did I dont know what in the usb key.

The result, when i use my usb key, I can still launch the 'StartPortableApps " but the folders disapeared... I can still access
the "video, music ..." folders through the portable apps menu, but cant access the portableapplication folder.

It doesn't appear to be in my usb key, although I know it's here because I can launch the applications.

Any idea to help me ?

Apps page should only feature 'official' PortableApps

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on September 13, 2007 - 2:54am

Having a list with Portable Apps is great, however I noticed some 3rd party ones in the list like XAMPP and Mac-on-Stick are 3rd party releases. Maybe these releases should be kept in a seperate list. Why? Because maybe the portability is okay I don't know in how far it can be considered a completely compatible app for the PA Platform.

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