General Discussion

UPDATE: It's now been released:
https://portableapps.com/portablegaim

I'd like a few folks to test out the new Beta 2 release of Portable Gaim before I set it live and announce it. You can grab it here:

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portablegaim/portable_gaim_1.5_beta2_...

You probably already considered it but...
Why not drop the website address of this new/great site in the splash screen for PFF?
PFF has a way of making its way around the net such that not everyone will have downloaded it from here/sourceforge. Seems like a good way to further get the name out.

Todd

I use KeePass at home and away for password security, combine that with TrueCrypt and you have very few worries for data exposure.

Is this site covering already portable (non-installing) apps, or just portable-ified versions of other apps?

Whichever, even if it's not listed here, I'd recommend KP for the forgetful and the paranoid...

cde

Call it lazy or what ever, but is there a way I could short cut the apps to the root directory of my USB drive so that no matter what drive letter the drive is named as the shortcut will still be valid? Right now for FireFox I have the short cut as E:/.../.../PortableFireFox.exe, but if I go to another computer with a differe number of drives, it could be named F: or G: and then I have to click 3 more times to get to it; I supose it's more of a 'can it be done' because the few extra clicks aren't realy a bother.

Due to the immense popularity of this thread, it is continued on What's on your portable? #2

On a 512MB USB drive I have...
7-Zip - File Compression
Emptemp2 - Temp Files Cleaner
Tweakui - Windows Settings Tweaker
100Zipper - File Compression
dscrypt - File encryption
dsdel - secure deletion
eprompter - email notifier
Foxit Reader - PDF reader
Fusion - Media player
gimp-2.2 - graphics editor
Irfanview - image viewer/browser
IEPrivacyKeeper - Internet Tracks cleaner
Kpad - Word Processor
Portable Firefox - Web Browser

I ran accross this, incase anyone is interested or might help with other appz

http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Portable.htm

http://www.richskills.com/

http://www.cylog.org/

http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php

This is great! Your old site has been updated! Hope this one gets more atention.

I have one request though: Could you release the launcher alone (for us to download the launcher and use it with our language version)?

I am portuguese and therefore would like some apps (such as Open Office in my language). If I recall correctly we needed to use PEcompact to make the app smaller.

Could you please make a tutorial to help us, non-english native speakers to get the apps running in our language from a mobile media drive.

By the way, great project

Hi John,

Love the site graphics and layout. Very crisp. I conversed with you a while back 1.4 upgrade I think. Great tie in the the new FF release. Nice Job.

Just a single request. On the Forum RSS XML could you add the 'author', 'poster' or 'creator' tag? Also you could add your Banner URL to the feeds, it makes the RSSReaders happy.

PS Why arent the forum 'signatures' functioning? Ed

CoolPlayer is a great portable media player. Filesize just 584kb. Has lots of functionality, I use it to play mp3's on my flash drive.
Website: http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

Called "Recommend Apps" for recommended applications that are already portable.
This should be the first link in it:
http://www.tinyapps.org/

and this should be the second:
http://www.xtort.net/office/floppyoffice.php

Also, http://www.nirsoft.net/ has some nifty stuff on the utility side.

(Really need to learn how to put <br>s in this)