General Discussion

What good is a compression app on a portable drive? And if it is important, what are some really good compression programs?

I suggest using TypSoft Ftp server, I use it to transfer files between computer without configured network, and it work great. It even support resume and others greats features.

TypSoft Ftp server
http://en.typsoft.com/

For a basic one ( only 116KB) try Baby FTP Server. it work great but has no resume.

http://www.pablosoftwaresolutions.com/html/baby_ftp_server.html

I'm thinking of putting these apps on my 128MB flash drive...

PStart
Portable Firefox
Portable Gaim
Portable Thunderbird
TrueCrypt
Foxit PDF Reader
µTorrent
WinAmp
7-Zip

Suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks in advance for those that read this
For all you others, I hope you lose your flash drive...

For me, it's Portable OpenOffice.org, even if the size is huge...

I run xmplay as a portable audio utility. Give it a look.

I hear that the the life is drained with every write to the drive.

With apps like thunderbird (writing lots of mail) on my 1gb memorex traveldrive, even though i have a 2 year warranty, i'm curious if anyone know's how long a drive will typically last?

-Joe

If anybody has a good word processor that does .doc and .rtf, yet is still small, please post it here. It can have limited functionality, but as long as it does the things listed above and has other needed features, I want to hear about it.

p.s.-I already know about PortableAbiWord, but I want something smaller. I also know about QJot, but that requires an install of it to be copied over to a USB stick.

I know you already have a thing set up where people can contact others using personal email accounts, but what if you had a little messaging system where you typed in the user you wanted to send a message to and it appeared in a "Mailbox" in the "My Account" space. The Mailbox would house the compose mail section and the Inbox section. You could also mail people by clicking a link in their Profile. It would not use outside email, but instead just have messaging. This would be quite useful for things you want to discuss with others outside of the forums, yet not divulge your personal email for privacy reasons. Admins would be able to read all these mails (of course). If anyone agrees, post a reply. Obviously the creation of apps takes precedence over this, so I don't expect to see this anytime soon.

I am confused about the U3-standard as opposed to the apps here at PortableApps.com.

As I understand it, non-U3 PortableApps from this site can run on (almost) any device, including U3-devices. Whereas U3 apps only work on U3-devices. So the safe thing would be to buy a U3-device, so that I could use both types of apps, or? ...

Could someone explain the differences between the two platforms? What about security?

Thanks.

does anyone know of any firefox extension that would extract all URLs (includeing swf, movies, jpegs) from a web page?