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Your Opinions / USB Drives VS IPOD Drives?

Submitted by LazyTony on October 17, 2006 - 4:30pm

First, let me just say I only found this site a few days ago. So, this is all new to me. But, I'm loving it! These PortableApps are just great.(And Professionally done.) I loaded some of your more basic(but choice)apps on a Cruzer Mini 128mb I had forgotten about. And they work great! My only problem has nothing to do with the software, it's a storage issue. Clearly 128mb is pretty small. So, I cleared my Ipod, then loaded all the apps over to it, and it works just as great. With the ipod storage is not a concern of mine, however, size is. The USB is key size while the pod is pocket size. Then my connection is a concern, the USB is plug and go. The Pod is not that simple. There's an extra wire to drag around, and some computers(mainly Windows)are just plan dumb and can't figure out what to do when my pod connects. No real questions here, just your opinions on the topic.

List of "unofficial" PortableApps?

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Submitted by Simeon on October 13, 2006 - 7:02am

Is there any possibility to make a list of PortableApps (with the same folder structure John uses) people made. It would be much easyer to find them cause today you either have to know the post or to go through all the posts whitch is a lot of work and pretty annoying.
Another Idea is some community-area. I think I read a post on this but i cant find it anymore.
I think there is a projects-section on this page but I dont know to access or list it. Is there somthing like "index.html" or do I have to know the name of the project to find it?

What if...

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Submitted by Zach Thibeau on October 12, 2006 - 6:01pm

What if there was an automated program that allowed you to make a portable app. Would you like that? This kind of program could take portable apps to the next level. if there is anyone who agrees with me, would you like to make this into a project? I am in...Even though I know next to nothing when it comes to compiling but I am learning. if any of you guys are interested email me at admin@wmpro.info and we'll but something together Wink

cannot use portableapps at work

Submitted by kujoe on October 12, 2006 - 9:37am

Hello, I'm hoping someone can help me. I've installed portable thunderbird on my usb keychain drive and can run it with no problems at home on all computers, even with limited accounts.

However once I take it to work, it spits a few errors at me, then stops reading the drive and thunderbird never starts. I've even put portable Trillian from Trilliananywhere.com on it and a couple of other portable apps from around the web and it's not just thunderbird that's failing.

I suspect it's some sort of security issue with my IT folks at work. What makes me suspect this more is that if I actually copy the folders to my local machine, they run...

MAX Drive ps2

Submitted by Rex McCarty on October 10, 2006 - 10:03pm

While Discovering Portable APPs {which I Love) I started with NEDWOLFS site and began reading about Portable Apps, somewherer along the line I came across 8gb. Drives from thecomputerwarehouse and I believe thats net not com. I ordered 2 Max drives USB which claims to work as any pen drive. They didn't work at all and the site wants a cod Cashiers Check. It's a one way trip, you own the bad drives 111.00 US gone so if anyone knows where that link was at Beware and better remove it. By the way I have never had a Lexar Drive to give me a drop of trouble in two years.

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