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To John: Drupal setup?

Submitted by statement on June 17, 2008 - 4:39pm

Hey John, Me and a friend was starting a website, I noticed you have drupal installed, We got started on drupal a few weeks ago, it's no painless but it's ok. I'm a bit curious how your setup is. What modules do you have installed? What is the best theme to modify as your own? And how do you manage your content, do you use templates?

Thanks.

Unable to Develop

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Submitted by digitxp on June 17, 2008 - 7:18am

My dad took away the computer I put all my development stuff on (and put it in his room...), so I won't be able to work on anything until he gives it back (or leaves to work at CVS on Thursdays }:)). Sorry...
BTW, does anyone know why my SMPlayer launcher doesn't work on Vista? (It works fine on XP...).

Quick Update: Firefox 3 (Japanese Translation Needed ASAP) and other Updates (June 16)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 16, 2008 - 3:38pm

Just a quick update so everyone is in the loop. We have several updates waiting in the wings including OpenOffice.org in all languages (big thanks to Marko), WinMerge (courtesy of Ryan), CoolPlayer+ (NeoRame) as well as ClamWin, Notepad++ and VirtualDub (me). But these are on hold until tomorrow afternoon as I put the finishing touches on Firefox 3.0.

App to Remove USB Drive

Submitted by Decker87 on June 16, 2008 - 11:38am

Hi. I have written a little AutoIT Script to have the program RemoveDrive eject the drive safely, after closing the portable apps menu. There is a screenshot here.
I hope someone else can also find it useful, so I uploaded the zip file to megaupload.com. Just unzip it to your PortableApps driectory. Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DT0UMMSB

Portable PDF Editor

Submitted by mvieira on June 16, 2008 - 11:22am

Hello All,

Wondering if anyone was aware of a utility that allowed actual editing of the contents of a PDF file. I have already looked at PDFTK Builder and while a great app, it does not allow modification of text or graphics within the pdf file.

Suggestions appreciated!! Thanks!!

my Partitioned USB stick shows up as 2 drives

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Submitted by LOGAN-Portable on June 15, 2008 - 2:44pm

A while ago I Partitioned my USB stick using some tool that was able to change some things on the USB stick. Using my Windows 2000 I needed to install some driver before those partitions were recognized by the system.

Today I plugged the USB stick into a Windows XP machine and to my amazement the USB stick showed up as 2 different drive letters in explorer. Great for those who like to partition their USB stick. I have tried it on an XP with SP2 and one with SP3.

Restrict USB Stick Access to PortableApps

Submitted by joergstein on June 14, 2008 - 8:47am

Hi,
I want to restrict the access to my files on the USB stick to applications started from the stick. Background: In a internet cafe I don't want to expose my data to a utility on the computer copying my data from the stick. Even with an encrypted drive any application has access to my data as soon as I opened the drive. Any idea?

Joerg

Portable Apps for the Blind

Submitted by billclewis2 on June 13, 2008 - 1:21pm

Let me qualify my question, before the guffaws, begin.

While I have used computers since the late '80's I have never used portable apps or burned video files to cd or DVD. It is evident even to me the value they now express in our mobile lives.

I have an aging, partially blind mother and other friends that can only read with the aid of projectors/enlargers of books. They all have a love of reading and it is heart rending to see their loss.

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