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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Hello and Note re Gimp

Submitted by ZigPress on November 13, 2008 - 2:41am

First of all I wanted to post a brief thank you to John and the team for a fantastic platform which has become invaluable since I started using it a few weeks ago.

I'm now a heavy user of the portable editions of XAMPP (with DTX), Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Skype (using the unofficial hack), KeePass and Filezilla, all on a 16Gb stick with regular backups to a server.

Alternative to Thunderbird

Submitted by mlun on November 12, 2008 - 2:16pm

My TB 2.0.0.17 Portable has become crappy, and despite compacting folders, rebuild of .msf files etc., I loose a lot of new emails. Most of my new incoming mails are being merged into spam mails, so it has become increasingly messy and unsafe.

I urgently need an alternative, but there does not seem to be many portable alternatives. As I use several email accounts, and use it for business mails, I do not think Gmail could be an alternative either.

I have considered the option to downgrade to 1.5 in the hope that this might work better, but how do I do that in the portable version?

Apps title on menu

Submitted by rvchaves on November 12, 2008 - 6:26am

hey guys

I want to change the name of the apps. Only the title that apears on menu.
I tried to change on the folder appinfo, file appinfo.ini -> Name=name i want, but didn't work ...

I hope you can help-me

Since now, thankyou

Splash Screen Comments and Errors

Submitted by reepicheep on November 11, 2008 - 11:53am

When the latest version of The GIMP (2.6.2) became available I couldn't remember out what version I had installed on my USB stick. The splash screen for The GIMP doesn't say what version the loader is starting. To find out I have to go check the About The Gimp menu option. As it happened I had version 2.6.1 installed.

In fact none of the splash screen tell you what version is starting. Would be nice if all the splash screens included version information.

Later I noticed that the splash screen for Firefox says "Firefox.,". That don't look nice.

portableappscreation.googlepages.com

Submitted by adeang on November 10, 2008 - 8:12pm

I have recently found this site and Downloaded their tutorial, help, guide thingy, and I can never figure how to get it to work. Has anyone ever used this site and tutorial?

If so and got to work please tell me.

Also if you know of any really good tutorials on how to do this please share them whether video or text please share. Or if you could offer tips

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