General Discussion

"netstat -a 5 >netstat.out" tells me that FF Portable is connecting to server2.rareideas.com when it starts up. According to the www.rareideas.com site, RareIdeas apparently owns PortableApps.

Is this necessary? What, exactly, is it sending back to rareideas.com? Do the other PA programs do this too?

Hello. Immediately after purchasing an 8 GB USB flash drive, I had installed the Portable Apps Base and then through it, several portable applications, including Open Office Portable, Firefox portable and Tucan. However, some files and folders seemed to have became corrupted, and after trying unsuccessfully to get rid of un-openable files with special symbols that appeared out of nowhere, I formated the drive.

Hello to everybody.

I'd like to know if PortableApps is alive since last software update was made in August.

Thanks.

Maurizio

I am running Firefox Portable v. 2.0.0.7

I look at many web sites that contain a lot of banner ads,
which takes longer to download on my dial up connection,
is there any thing I can do to get FF, to download the web page with out
all the advertising banners, and hopefully load quicker..?

Many thanks

This may be just on my computer, but when I look at the main website, portablapps.com, at the bottom of the main image, that part of the bottom of the image, where it starts to be a reflection of the menu, and the "As Seen..." I sometimes don't see the reflection, and sometimes the whole bit w/ the "As Seen" and below doesn't show up. Other times , it does. Just wondering if anyone else has this.

Probabaly for most known, but I am a rather newbie to this portable experimenting.

Now trying to set some things like pgp and gpg to work on the stick. They mostly use either some directions for directorires from windows or sometimes a fixed path is OK (like older pgp)
But the stick does no know its root path in advance.

What do I have to enter in possible bat or similar set up file to point the software to its ususal directories if it is no able to search for all in its own dir by defoult?

I've encountered some installer who ask the user for an install location. This might seem a little weird. I't probably possible for the installer to correctly determine where the portable apps need to be installed. (probaby by finding the portable apps menu).

In case of an additional PAM copy on HDD they mostly are in a subfolder I would imagine. On USB Flash Drives they probably in the root.

Maybe these installers I've seen had some older install app or something.

Having a special portable apps version is all cool and so on, but I start to wonder why the original apps don't get PAM compliant. Okay, I admit the folder structure is maybe overly complex and an extra launcher app is not what they had in mind when developing, but to have just an app that does not fiddle in registry, does not put stuff in user folder or windows system, features all dependancies needed in its own folder.

I found this while looking through the fora at the portable freeware site and thought I'd bring it to your attention. It is not a request to put it in PAF format. But some of you may know someone who could benefit from it.

This is an application that reads and pronounces the content of a computer screen in a number of languages. It is primarily of benefit to the visually impaired.

There are both installed and portable versions available on the site.

http://www.nvda-project.org/

Just to let you know, some of the recent comments I have seen have timestamps in the future and will show up on the tracker as 0 mins ago until the time is reached.
It seems to be an hour ahead.