General Discussion

Has anyone attempted to make an independent DShow environment so that one could use a DShow-based player like MPC-HC (I saw that there was work on the player, but AFAICT, it depends on the host for codecs outside of its limited built-in capabilities)? VLC and SMPlayer are fine for low-resolution videos, but I'm pretty sure neither has an AVC decoder that supports any kind of offloading to the video card (ffdshow supports DXVA, CoreAVC supports CUDA and is extremely optimized overall, etc.).

I seem to remember reading somewhere that along the way we'll be able to sort and organize apps in folders by category!? I really like that idea as "favorites" just doesn't cut it when you have over 100 apps on your drive (203 subfolders in the PortableApps folder by last count I also like the current PA category structure (e.g. Internet/Browsers/ for Chrome etc.) but I have a suggestion for all those non-official PortableApps that a lot of us is carrying along as well.

Hello,

I'm intrested in writing a SRS document on PortableApps.com: Portable Software/USB (Vers. 1.6.1.0). If you have questions about what it is you can check it out here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Requirements_Specification).

If you're ok with it, would you be willing to provide me with information (manual, explain functions, etc) in case I need any?

is there a portable tiwtter application?

As I have tried to tell people before, there is a paste bug in Notepad++, and Notepad++ adds "?" character to pasted text.

Try this and see for yourself. Go to any youtube video, and then highlight and copy the entire text message posted by someone. Then paste it into a notepad++ text file and notice that "?" characters will appear randomly in the text.

But interestingly, some text pasts OK, but some add a random ?

So try a few different comments and copy and paste them.

Hello there,

A question for the portal admin.

Not sure if it's my firefox settings (master password set but not logged all the time to the credentials) or drupal / forums on portableapps.com but for every page / link I open it seems it asks for login and this is annoying when I do not actually to post something on the forum but only to download an app or read posts.

Isn't there a cookie setting so the portal does not ask to login every time which of course brings my firefox's "login with master password" to popup?

Cheers.

when i use the key search it does get a little annoying because the posts aren't organized by date or year. i am a big fan of portable apps and i love how i can take them anywhere but im looking for apps but it makes it hard when stuff from 2006 is mixed in with 2010 stuff is there any hope for the organization like :

New Posts:
Older Posts:
or search by year etc

[topic updated by mod JTH as this is about searching for apps]

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I've done some minor editing on the Development Test Releases page. I've removed the ability to sort since it was slowing the page down quite a lot. The zebra striping is now done via a simple (and fast in the browser) CSS3 rule. That means it won't show up striped in IE but will in Firefox, Chrome and Opera. The end result is that the page will pop right up for all users now.

Right, so I've been looking for a portable "virtual drive" for ages now, and my Google feng shui only revealed a couple of dead topics and a thread here and there, but, for those who've been looking for such an app, I have an answer.

The closest thing to portable virtual drives, was VCdControlTool by Microsoft, but A. it has been discontinued, and B. It officially only supports Windows XP, and C. It doesn't support 64 bit operating systems. - Which was a deal breaker for me.