General Discussion

if i do not put anti virus software on my portable, but it is on the computer that i am using, am i still safe from viruses and spyware?

Hi,
John, just wanted to thank you for a fantastic applicaiton(s) ad wanted to share how I use the Portable apps. It's starting to replace my home computer.

I've installed PortbleApps to my my 2GB SD card in my Palm TX. There is a nifty palm app called Card Reader that will allow the palm to essentially act as a card reader, making the SD card appear as a drive in Windows. (not sure for other OS's)

(Disclaimer: This may or may not be old news, but I did a forum search and didn't find any mention at all of this.)

SlingPlayer works fine perfectly off a USB device, and thus in PortableApps. All you have to do is copy the "SlingPlayer" folder from (by default) "C:\Programs Files\Sling Media" to the device, or the "PortableApps" folder.

Here's what your Portable Apps Menu will look like...

Hi John,

Any way we can get the option to move the PA logo to the bottom of the menu(or have it moved) so we can take advantage of that large banner area for our PA themes? Do not want to remove the PA logo. Thanks.

Moeshun

I've written an application that can be run within the context of the PortableApps menu to display a dropdown list of applications installed in a subdirectory under PA. This will allow those of us who are impatient for the next version of PA to have some category support for now.

Here's a screen shot (read the full post for a link to the software).

USAGE

Hi

Just installed the PortableApps. Great software!

Now I want to play the game called Elasto Mania (ELMA). It is a simple motorcycle game for Windows. I know it is not open software.
http://elastomania.com/

I have tried to make a folder in my Appsfolder in USB drive. I install the game fine, but when I try to open it, I get this error message:

ELMA.RES file is missing!

When I look in the folder it contains these folders:

Lev
Lgr
Rec
ELMA
Readme + Uninstall
And a file called "Elma.res"

Why can't I play the game when the folder contains the RES file?

Want to use your current browser settings and configuration but use them anonymously and free?

Why enable anonymous browsing? See: http://tor.eff.org/overview.html.en

Time: Following the basic instructions for PortableTor, Firefox, and TorButton should only take 5 minutes. Configuring for multiple proxies may take about 15 minutes.

Caveat:

• Anonymous browsing will usually be slower than normal browsing (sometimes very slow).

Is there something like notepad++ that will work with C#?

I apologize in advance if this has already been discussed. No, I did not search I would even know what keywords to use. Is there a program that would condense a couple of files like an .exe, .ini, and maybe a few more into a single .exe?

The July issue of PCWorld has a test of three different flash drives. The main purpose of the test is to see how much they can improve the performance of Vista by using readyboost. They find that readyboost doesn't make much difference.

They also tested the three drives for file transfer speed to read and write a large file. They tested a Lexar, Kingston and Ritek flash drives and found the Lexar to be by far the fastest.