General Discussion

Hi everyone,

I recently emigrated to Germany and am struggling with the language. My firm deals with a lot of scanned PDFs in German but doesn't convert them to searchable ones.

I would like a portable USB tool that I could quickly lift text out of scanned PDFs and place into google translate for example.

Does such a thing exist?

I'm guessing from no replies to my queries, that no "full" manual exists?
It's similar to uT, but not exact copy. Haven't found much in "Help" on qBT's official site.

Couple of examples for questions:
In options>downloads section, a "keep incomplete torrents in."
? Assume ? if don't change default for this, incomplete & complete are kept in same location?

But, doesn't seem to be option to save torrents to CUSTOM path. There's an option to "save files to location," (change location to save files, but not for torrents?)

Tried qBittorrent 3.0.0 installed locally in Vista x64.
It extracted fine & I made a few options changes, similar to what's in uTorrent. Started d/l a torrent & when tried dragging one edge of main GUI, immediately crashed Vista.

I'm a little perplexed that on the home page it alludes to the app being able to be run from a cloud drive rather than a portable device? Yet there is no instructions anywhere on how to do this? Is it really meaning storing data on the cloud?

hi all i have warzone 2100 portable installed on my usb and use the game at home and free time on my course. on my course the computers running windows 7 and the game runs no problem there but at home im running vista and when i run the game the terrain does not appear. its there the game runs but no picture. any suggestions????

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MPlayer
MPlayer2
SMPlayer
MPC-HC

All of them light player.
All of them open source.
All of them recent update and seems active. (at the year 2012)

can you tell why portableapps.com prefer SMPlayer?
what the different? (beside the other is the fork of MPlayer)

thanks Tal.

Could someone please clean up the newest entry to the Off Topic Forum. It has been there for hours. I find it to be very offensive. Isn't there some kind of filter that PortableApps.com could be using to prevent this from happening again. Seeing this kind of offensive material makes PA look bad.

The new Sandisk Extreme USB 3.0 seems to be the best for 4K writes:
search for ( best flash drive whoratesit )

But its not without issue (intermittent freezes)
search for ( sandisk random 4k comments whoratesit )

I am looking for better alternatives.

Thanks.

PS - I could not post direct links ... Please feel free to repost with the links if you know how.

Many anti-Virus and mal-ware detectors just assume that portable applications, i.e. applications running directly from portable mass memory devices (for example a pen drive) are security threats and they simply block the portable application execution.

A trivial, yet inelegant solution, is simply to disable the Anti-virus or Mal-ware programs. Besides inelegant, this solution leaves the host system unprotected and most of the time, to disable the protection features is required admin privileges which the visitor,trying to run the portable application, normally does not have.

Hi guys.

Sorry for what might seem like a simple question...but:

I have installed XAMPP, and XAMPP control panel.

They appear to work fine, I unzipped it to the root of my flash drive like i read to do, opened up the control panel, started Apache, Mysql - went into phpmyadmin, made a DB and some tables inside it.

I also have notepad++ installed from before, I created a simple page with just initializing a variable and then echo'ing it - however when previewed in Firefox it does not show the PHP elements.

Am I missing some obvious step here?