General Discussion

John,

Are you planning to put any other word processors (besides AbiWord and OpenOffice) in the app directory?

I recently purchased a Mini TravelDrive from Memorex that had the u3 platform on it. It seems to have a nice clean front end and amazing potential to bring portable apps more mainstream. However my issue with it is the fact that some of the software packaged for u3 is low quality. In particular a company/person (YourBrainz) packaged Firefox for u3, and it is riddled with errors. While I was browsing the u3 site I found John Haller’s name under a second instance of Firefox in the software page saying coming soon. Do you have plans to release u3 compatible apps? What are your general thoughts on the u3 platform? I will stick with my Portable Firefox for now, as I have been very impressed with the build quality, but if you plan to make it u3 compatible or any other software u3 compatible I think you could really help get Portable Firefox more mainstream.

I would just like to personally thank the dev's out there that create the portable apps.
Ever since i found out about PortableFirefox a very long time ago i've gotten into the habit now of first inserting my USB flash drive then to double click on that nasty blue 'e' that is a bigger headache that could ever be conceived in the IT industry.

Also to the dev's that help code portable apps;
Is there some way that i can donate so that you can keep the good work up for us programming n00b's that have no idea but still wish to use the Portable Apps? I don't have paypal and i live in Oz (down under)

I like the splash screen for Portable Firefox, how about a Thunderbird one?

This is probably incredibly minor, but the startup images for some of the portable apps, or at least Firefox anyway, features the USB connection with six copper lines. USB has four...

check it ou :
http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/

I've added a new forum called Beta Testing in the Development category. If you're interested in helping test out the apps and launchers and getting them ready for public release, this is the place to look. I've started it off with a beta version of the Portable OpenOffice.org launcher that fixes the Windows 2000 issue and allows portable settings with Windows 98/Me.

Regards,
John

is there an opensource/freeware app that'll take a snapshot of the registry before and after an application is installed, so that one would know what registry entry has been added/modified.

a good step in the quest to replace all apps on my pc with portable one's:
a portable cd / dvd burner

http://www.silentnight2004.com/NEW_Download.html

Friends

I am trying to find out what options I have to do computing more securely.

Here are two questions regarding that:

1. Can I use a boot CD, like Knoppix or WinUBCD to boot and then start the Portable Apps from a USB stick?

2. Can the Portable Apps be run from a computer booted from a boot CD and where the internal hard drive is removed?

The reason I ask this is because I live in a country where we need to protect against the authorities getting onto our hard disks and doing whatever they would do without us knowing about it.

Calle2005