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Pls. recommend a simple straightforward ebook reader other than Calibre!

Submitted by trust on November 24, 2013 - 9:27am

FBreader will not do the trick since it wants to insert a book into a manager or library. What I need is a simple, robust solution like Foxit for PDFs: I click on the ebook and it launches it, does not want to arrange it. (Or maybe I need to launch a separate file in FBreader as well as Calibre's ebook-viewer.exe.

Sadly, the ebook reader in Calibre crashes under a 40 MB .mobi, which otherwise works fine on my Kindle. Any other ideas?

[DETECTION] Is the TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Trojan

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Submitted by yusof125 on November 20, 2013 - 1:04pm

My AVIRA FREE ANTIVIRUS v14.0.1.719 is detect the installer of PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu.exe as TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Trojan????

Starting the file scan:

Begin scan in 'E:\Temp\DwnlData\Amirul\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu_4480\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu.exe'
E:\Temp\DwnlData\Amirul\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu_4480\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu.exe
[DETECTION] Is the TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Trojan

Beginning disinfection:
E:\Temp\DwnlData\Amirul\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu_4480\PortableApps.com_Platform_Setu.exe
[DETECTION] Is the TR/Crypt.XPACK.Gen Trojan

unsubscrube email notify

Submitted by ZeroX4 on November 17, 2013 - 5:16am

how do i unsubscribe from a post ?

im getting an email notify with

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but when i click link to unsubscribe i see

"
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why ?????

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Doesn't update any applications

Submitted by avmaksimov on November 9, 2013 - 3:11am

I try to use stable ver.11 and beta 2 of ver.12, but unfortunately for all applications (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird, Skype or Notepad++) platform gives me information about update but after click Next button message 'All your programs updated' appears but none of application was updated.

Thunderbird and Skype I update manually via download from site and install. Now I have problem with only Notepad++, but I think I'll have this issue with any applications.

Windows 8 (8.1) usb broken files

Submitted by inscreve on November 7, 2013 - 6:56am

I use an external hard drive (NTFS) with a lot of PortableApps between 2 PCs , only these two (A and B).

I used windows 7 64x on both until recently have switched to windows 8 64x in both. Since then I have very serious problems with fundamental apps.
By connecting the disk in "A" coming from "B" gives errors when start an app ("unauthorized acess") or start apps as if it were the first time (rebuilds the configuration files).

In the worst case - Thunderbird - several mailboxes are with 0 KB. Sad

Independent web browser?

Submitted by Agunat on November 6, 2013 - 6:19pm

I know portable browsers are supposed to be independent of the ones residing on the host computer but I must be doing something wrong. When I launch a browser from my thumb drive it winds up interacting with the browser on the host computer. By this I mean importing favorites, history or something such as this, also the other way around with the host computer's browser interacting with the portable one. Am I doing something wrong? Is there one portable browser better for this than another?

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