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U3 or USB with PortableApps?

Submitted by Cazziz on February 1, 2009 - 5:08pm

Hello everyone,

I'm about to buy an USB stick. I've experienced PortebleApps before and i loved it!
But now there is no good way to easely secure your device with an password. At least, not the way like U3 does, mount the device, and first a password, before you can do annything. But the U3 has not the portable apps i want (xammp, Notepad++ and so on).

When Linux does come out.

Submitted by mayorpacmanjones on February 1, 2009 - 2:05pm

Okay I have been visiting pen drive apps and pen drive linux which is very similar to portable apps allot lately. I have knowticed that pen drive linux has their own linux distribution or version of linux. Are there any plans that the portable apps community has to make their own linux distribution? When I saw that linux was coming soon I was thinking about something like Ubuntu or Mandriva or Fedora.

For people who want linux

Submitted by mayorpacmanjones on January 31, 2009 - 11:52pm

I am making a directory for you if you want to run linux,
Persistent linux- A boot-able linux.
Vm Linux-Linux- As a quest opperating system under windows.

Almost all of you could find this sites useful.
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/
http://www.linux.com/distributions/
Persistent
Try Unetbootin. It will make supportive hardware of portable memory bootable.
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html
*Many distributions of linux have utilities to make their distribution bootable on a usb drive.
Also try infra recorder to burn a disk image to a cd.

New to portable Apps need some advice re:email

Submitted by Micantar on January 31, 2009 - 10:18am

From what Ihave read I understand that I can load a flash drive with Portable Apps which includes Fire fox email

My question is this once I have the email provider on my flash drive do I have to set up an account in the same way as I did on my computer

Once set up can I then send and receive emails from someone elses computer using the portable Apps email

can I use another computer even though that computer has no email installed

Micantar

INI File

Submitted by jimmy72 on January 31, 2009 - 8:43am

I have a few questions about the INI File.

Is safe to have multiple instances running?
Are there any other things that you recomend adding?
I want to know what to add for all apps or a specific one (please specify).

SDHC Card

Submitted by SandLake on January 30, 2009 - 1:41pm

I would like to put portableapps onto an SDHC card which I would leave permanently in my Samsung netbook. How can I get some sort of a start menu (possibly from an icoin in the system tray) to show and run the programs on the SD card?

GPL Violations in XeroBank Browser

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Submitted by John T. Haller on January 30, 2009 - 10:27am

I'm posting to let the community know that I have informed XeroBank Browser of their violation of the GPL. As many know, XeroBank grew out of TorPark and is a combination of Firefox and Tor to allow secure connections of Firefox to the Tor Onion Router Network for anonymous web browsing. TorPark is based on my own original Portable Firefox code and I worked with the original TorPark developer on the initial versions. As that developer continued to work on it and enhance it and later switched the license from the GPL to a proprietary license that forbids commercial competition.

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