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IRC - Mibbit Prefix

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on September 25, 2008 - 10:01pm

I've had a look, and this is really easy to do, but thought I should get some thoughts on this first:

Should we prefix users from the Mibbit widget on this site with pasupport_ instead of mib_ to make it more obvious who is using it?

(Technical note: This involves just adding "&nick=pasupport_%3F%3F%3F%3F" to the end of the Mibbit URL loaded in the iframe)

is it legal to...

Submitted by netguy on September 25, 2008 - 11:09am

hi guys, I'm new to the forum, and I wanted to post a question, one of the website I manage is from a client who wants to give something to the user who make donation to the website, and I wanted to know if is legal to give them usb with different portable application installed... I know sometime ago I came across a site that was selling the usb with linux distribution installed, but I haven' found it... anyway is this legal?...

thanks

Newsletter

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on September 25, 2008 - 2:23am

Here's my bi-monthly post on the state of the newsletters Blum

It has been two months since the last newsletter from PortableApps.com and a lot has happened in the meantime. I personally feel that our users have a right to know what has been happening and as such, have taken it upon myself to make an unofficial newsletter for this month. I will gladly continue to create these in the future, as I feel they help me get a summary of what has happened and it also gives the community a quick review of what has happened. If John lets me, I will post these as official newsletters.

Release Team Membership

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 22, 2008 - 9:34pm

Ok, as a followup to the Release Team I proposed, I think we all have a handle on it now. Now we need members. We needs folks with experience with portable apps who know what to look for. We're going to be establishing some testing guidelines as a community (primarily centered around the PortableApps.com Format Spec and the Installer plus testing for leave-behinds).

Ceedo--Showing portable apps shortcuts and possibly the file in the menu

Submitted by Msingh32 on September 22, 2008 - 2:16pm

For all the Ceedo and Portable Apps lovers, I figured out how to make Portable Apps show up on the Ceedo Mini bar at the bottom and on the menu. Its really simple.

First extract the portable app you want on to the Ceedo USB drive. Then copy that folder to

X:\Ceedo\User\Start Menu\Programs

Secret is ur drive letter.

Then if you want to show a shortcut on the bar itself, just make a shortcut by right-clicking and click on create shortcut. After that copy that into:

X:\Ceedo\User\Desktop.

Win+P shortcut key used in Windows 7

Submitted by rokujou on September 22, 2008 - 11:08am

The following URL shows a screenshot of Windows 7 with the shortcut key to bring up Portable Apps in use for connecting to a projector.

http://www.thinknext.net/archives/2268

I know Windows 7 is a while away from release, but IMO the sooner you know about something the better. It might be a good idea to allow disabling the shortcut key in future versions of Portable Apps, ready for when Windows 7 is released. Configuring it to an alternative combination would be even better.

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