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PAM Suggestions And a question

Submitted by agdurrette on November 23, 2009 - 7:44pm

I have a couple of suggestions that I would like to share And a question.

First:
An import and export settings feature. So if you have an app on your computer and on your portable drive Like Firefox you could import you bookmarks, passwords and settings to you portable drive.
I would like to do that as a project but I will need help Sad

Second:

win 7 and Portableapps ICON

Submitted by cwhoward on November 22, 2009 - 9:10pm

Well, I updated to Windows 7 without too much fuss.
But, my favorite little Portable Apps ICON does not show up on the Windows 7 Systems.
Has someone figured out how to correct that?

It is such a nice launch pad and easy to show people how to use portable apps, I would really like to get it back.

Thanks,
Chuck

Driver requirements

Submitted by guillaume.prevot on November 21, 2009 - 6:55am

Hi everyone,

I'm not sure if it's the right place to post but as it's a general question, I tried "General Discussion" Smile Please move this post if I'm wrong.

Many people in the past asked to make portable some applications portable but get a not possible answer because of requirements.

  • Admin privileges to install driver (thinking of VirtualBox and TrueCrypt)
  • .Net installed (thinking of Paint.Net which I don't use anyway ...)

Question for those using a portable hard drive with built in hardware encryption

Submitted by Artos on November 20, 2009 - 5:50pm

I have recently been shopping for a portable hard drive and found a Western Digital that claims on the package to have 256 bit hardware encryption built in. After downloading and viewing the instructions it appears to need administrator rights to unlock the drive. I thought I remembered reading that drives with hardware encryption could be unlocked without administrator rights, unless I misunderstood. The model number of the drive I was WDBAAA3200BK if I remember correctly. I was also looking at a Western Digital WDME3200TK (if I remembered that one also).

PeaZip 2.8

Submitted by giorgiotani on November 20, 2009 - 8:46am

PeaZip 2.8 was released today
http://peazip.sourceforge.net/

The 2.8 line development was focused into:
- New file/archive browser's UI, with easier selection, optional row selection, alternative details / list view.
- Improved navigation menu for browsing, extraction and archiving
- Improved scheduler launching jobs from program's GUI
- Archive conversion feature, either converting each archive separately or consolidating input archives into a single output archive of the desired format.

Plot a Graph: # Portable Apps Available over Time

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Submitted by Darkbee on November 19, 2009 - 2:20pm

It would be interesting (or not) to see a graph that shows the number of official portable applications available over time (say on a monthly basis). Just purely out of curiosity.

I was just looking at the list a moment ago, seeing what apps might need updating, thinking to myself, "Wow, this list is getting pretty huge. I remember back in the good old days when I barely had to scroll the screen!"

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