General Discussion

In a SCIFI.COM newsletter there was an article that decried the inablitliy for a iPOD to phone home. The tack being that if it was stolen you could track it down and get it back. http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/08/16/shift_how_apple.html

In an earlier article there was a service that offered this, originally for free, but now it is a yearly charge. http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/2007/02/26/gadgettrak_find.html

Is there an opensource application that does this? If not, it would seem a natural addition to the portable application suite.

how do one convert an existing FAT32 flash drive to NTFS. i know where to buy one but is there any software to convert fat32 to ntfs on a flash drive.

Is it possible to copy files/folders to the recycled bin, without moving them there?

I'm wondering if this could be done in some kind of batch file, or nircmd assisted launch.

What I'll probably end up doing is having it copy from my usb to a temp directory on the hard drive, launch from there, then copy back after everything's closed, then run a secure deletion from the usb drive to delete my temporary directory and it's contents.

I was just wondering if it was possible to use the c:\recycled which appears to be on almost every windows pc, as the temp directory.

well i didnt think i should put this in request an app so ill put it here what i want is either a app or an intergration into portbale apps to allow password protection such as u need a password to acces portable apps aswell as to access documents just because i tend to leave my flash drive in the computer at home and school and i dont want my parents or teachers or friend etc. to get my files with out my permison.
becuase i have some cad stuff and html stuff that i dont want people taking. so anyhelp would be appreciated. thanks in advanced

I have existing USB drives that already have data on them.

Just want to clarify that I can install PortableApps without losing any of the data on the drives ?

Hello @all, hi John,

we need any kind of hint to the German pages on PortableApps.com.

Thanks the work of the German Team with Simeon, Andreasma and me we have German
pages online for all published Apps.

But no one will find them cause there is no hint on it on PortableApps.com.

What can we do to get it?
Any kind, text string or flag is welcome and better than no hint.

Kind regards

How can I rename the apps in the menu? I saw an executable on here somewhere, but I'd rather rename the apps manually. Is there some way to do it?

Also, what about icons in the start menu for the apps? Can those be changed?

Just wanted to post this since I discovered it. I know some folks have discussed formatting flash drives using NTFS to get the extra file integrity stuff (since its a journaling file system). Well, it seems that Vista doesn't play very well with NTFS formatted flash drives. Just copying a BMP file from the Desktop to the drive pops up the UAC and requires admin permission. And some apps were having trouble writing back to the drive.

Anyone else seeing this? If this is just how it is, we should probably be sure people know about it.

There was this site I used a while ago that lets you create a community toolbar for free. I was thinking that it would be really handy for PA.com to have one. It could be installed on firefox portable. What do you think?

Possible features App Updates by RSS, PA.com google search, etc.

http://www.conduit.com/

I hope this is in the right spot to post this, if not feel free to move it. Does anyone know of an application that will change the wallpaper when I put my flash drive in the computer. Even better would be if it changed the whole theme. Anybody know of an app that would do this?

TIA,
Brennan