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Site Performance (Slashdotted + Dugg)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 4, 2006 - 5:50pm

Well, that was quite an experience. PortableApps.com ended up on the homepage of both Slashdot and Digg at the same time. Needless to say, this shared-hosting-based Drupal site wasn't quite ready for all of that. I was able to get placeholders up within an hour or two and keep the pages disabled. The Support section was brought back online first. Then the Apps Directory. I've re-enabled the forums for now and am watching the server load. I may have to disable them again until we at least drop off the Slashdot homepage (4th from the bottom now).

games

Submitted by justin on January 1, 2006 - 2:03pm

John-

Do you have any games in mind for the Games section? I was wondering because not many people have posted requesting games. If you don't I'm sure I could dig up a few....

-Justin

Portable OpenOffice.org 2.0.1 and Portable GIMP

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Submitted by John T. Haller on December 30, 2005 - 2:57pm

Just to keep everyone in the loop. I'm putting the final touches on both of these and will be releasing them on Tuesday. At least one other new app will be released as well. The Portable OpenOffice.org update is a big one as it adds compatibility and portability with all settings to all Windows versions (except Win95, which OO.o no longer supports).

A few other announcements will be coming this week as well including a full set of RSS feeds to watch everything on the site from app announcements to news to forum posts as well as the start of the development section.

Until then, have a

locating dsdel

Submitted by whatanerd on December 30, 2005 - 11:25am

I have looked for dsdel, but cannot find it anywhere. Can someone point me in the direction where I can find it (safe site, please)?

I do prefer using Eraser, but not sure if that is portable....comments?

Thanks all, and thanks so much Mr. Haller for this site and hard work.

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