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Putting all the portable apps into a single file.

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Submitted by amanica on July 26, 2011 - 4:49pm

Hi,

I've been wondering if it would make sense to run all my apps out of a single file eg. a zip file in order to avoid the myriad of small files some portable apps like perl[1] and R[2] have. Big installations with lots of small files makes writing the stuff to a usb drive very slow. I don't care much for the compression but rather that it is one file or a small number of files.

I saw the AppCompactor, but as far as I can tell it compresses one file at a time.

Home Page New Look

Submitted by IanFromBarrie on July 24, 2011 - 11:33pm

Don't much like the rearrangement of the PortableApps home page. Having to scroll down to skip past the pitch to get to the latest apps (and having much less space devoted to them) is a pain.

It's about the apps.

I will link to the "All News" page instead.

Like the RC, now here's what I think

Submitted by malaise on July 23, 2011 - 8:43am

Good favorites/category combination but why not categories only on the first page as a choice or am I missing something?

Love the updater, however I think it would be nice to have a pause button if possible. Also, will it be possible that you can select new apps this way without going to the website (nice home page btw).

Thanks for the inclusion of "run now" after install, saves my many seconds across multiple workstations.

Inclusion of images in the posts

Submitted by tapsklaps on July 21, 2011 - 11:13am

Often it is very helpful for understanding when an issue is also described with pictures. Therefore I would appreciate it if in the future would be a possibility for the direct involvement of screenshots in a post. By this I mean not only the use of a link to an image but the direct display of the image in a post. This could be done for example through the use of an image tag.

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