General Discussion

Anyone else notice the increase of spam around here? Like what's up, and can't we do something to make it harder to spam? Maybe don't allow users to post in the first hour after they sign up. I doubt it will happen but anyone have any good suggestions?

The Frets On Fire game that has been created is a piece of crapola. I follow the download and install instructions exactly and have retried it several times but when i open it up using portable apps my anti virus software pops up about 3-4 messages at which point the app says an error has occurred and fails to open. What they should do is make a working version.

The portable version of K-Meleon
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Windows-Portable-Applications-Pock...
The portable version of Maxthon
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Internet/Browsers/Windows...

Hi, I like to advertise PortableApps on other websites, mainly forums that I am part of. Is there a banner/button or something like that that I can stick in my forum signatures? Or can I just steal this? https://portableapps.com/sites/all/themes/portableapps2/images/portable_...

I know you can run portable from a flash drive without isntalling anything, but I'm wondering if running a portapp on a computer installs anything into the computer registry or store any settings on a folder on the computer. basically, is there any footprint or anything left behind after the flash drive is removed.

also, do portapps suffer from anything that the full version doesnt? are they slower? or missing features?

Hello,
I think you at PortableApps.com will like this idea. Although you reading this, might not know, many people still use dial-up, and I'm sure your download manager makes life a lot easier. But take a moment to figure how much time would be spent downloading ALL of your apps. Even with a great connection, it would be slow.

Hello,
I'm looking for information on how to lock down and secure both my Flash Drive and Portable Apps within it just in case I do something stupid like leave it somewhere that I shouldn't or lose it.
As you can imagine, someone accessing the contents of my Flash Drive could be devastating.

I'd appreciate any info.
Thanks

Ken

Hello,
First of all, it's amazing to see how far Portable Apps has come in just a few years. I remember John promoting Firefox Portable (or was it Portable Firefox) on the old Spread Firefox site and on his own old site.
Admittedly, I probably didn't make a good impression with John considering how outspoken I was about his efforts to show Firefox users how to make Firefox look just like IE. I just figured that Firefox is Firefox and it should look like anything but IE and people learn new software every day and so they should and would get used to Firefox's interface.

Is there a portable app that can read CHM files? I know there is a plugin for firefox but I am trying to avoid that route since my IT department is on the lookout for anyone using any browser other than IE. Thanks for any info. GD

Hi. I was just wondering whether Audacity is a lossless editor like mp3DirectCut, or does it decompress->edit->recompress?

Also, what are the other pros and cons of both of them?