General Discussion

To my mildly geeky eyes, the defining difference between portable apps and regular ones is that portable apps are not installed.

I am a Firefox enthusiast, but was getting frustrated by often losing multi open tabs (I use session saver), after my wife would have several FF windows open, then close them in the wrong order. As she was impossible to train, I added Firefox Portable to my desktop HD, gave it its own unique icon, and use it exclusively, while she continues to use the original. I am careful to close my FF Portable after a session so that she can't mess with it. I have also briefed her (with some success) to close my FF and open her own (the original), should I forget.

Hi all, I have a couple of questions about PA gaming, so I'll just dive in!..

1: Anyone who plays snes/nes emulators: do some games play with only the mouse? I like to play a little game while at work to take a break and clear my mind. This actually increases my productivity, but I don't think it would be appreciated if I unrolled a gamepad in my cubicle 3-10 times a day. LOL!

2. Does zbattle work with emulators run off your USB? Does zbattle (or any alternative) work and/or is it worth it?

3. I'm looking for a fun, skill oriented game, with decent graphics that I can run windowed off my USB drive. Sports, strategy or action genre preferred. Something I can just click onto when I get stumped for a few minutes. Something I can just dive into, then leave! Anyone got any suggestions.

I'm currently using sandisk titanium 1G

1. There is a LaunchU3.exe file in the root directory of the drive. Is it an important file and does it matter if this file is deleted ?

2. If I format the disk (LaunchU3.exe deleted), can the U3 system still be used?

3. Can the disk with U3 system co-exist with portable linux?(reference: www.pendrivelinux.com). Will the U3 system be altered if the disk becomes bootable ?

I appreciate you effort of giving advices on these issues, thank you.

A couple of quick questions . . .
Where did the icons on the Apps page come from? Are they free to use in other apps and redistribute?

Regards

I found this neat ftp server, smallftpd http://smallftpd.sourceforge.net/
and it works pretty well. It doesn't require installation, only ftpd.ini which makes it very portable. It is only 185kb in size. I think it's worth checking out, it could easily run from a portable device. It runs extremly fast and has support for virtual directories. (I was able to show my c and d drives as folders within the root folder)

I am about to go out and get a 4 to 6 gig usb pocket HD. I have a usb drive with U3 and am looking for something that can password protect the drive so you cannot even access it like the U3 app. is there anything out there that will do that?

Also which is better a portable pocket hd or another usb drive? im looking for the best performance since i run a lot of apps from it.

Ok...I am not trying to sell anythig here...but I thought you guys might like to check out this MojoPac

I have been testing it in beta and it works pretty well. You can install most of your programs and it is not terribly slow. Unfortunately, it only works on Windows XP machines right now.

It is along the lines of indi but is here now...

btw, John yeah it's me the same tracon...love what you've done with the place

Let's say I'm running Firefox Portable (I am) and it notifies me there's an update (it did). What should I do:
1 - Go ahead and do the update - will it update properly and still be portable?
2 - Wait for the new release from portableapps.com

The question doesn't apply just to Firefox, but any app (Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, 7-Zip, Audacity, etc)

Sorry if this question has been addressed somewhere else or if this is the wrong way to ask, newbie

I am not asking for illegal stuff I just want to understand if would be possible to run Macromedia Flash 8 from and external USB HD.

What kind of problems could happen ?

Would be possible to use Liberta' ?

Thanks

Hello, well you all seem like very tech and Pc savy folk. You see I was having trouble with a portable app and accessing the "Applications Data" Folder in my computer, (I'm obviously not as tech savy, who knew all i needed to do was click "Show hidden folders"

Anyway, what happend was that I was trying to get the folder to show up so on

C:Docs and settings/~

The ~ symbol being my account name, i right click and fiddled with read only, hidden etc, AND then i "accidently" click on the sharing tab and then on "Make this folder private" so this box comes up saying its doing something to permissions and I accidently clicked cancelled, so I checked and unchecked it, trying to get it back to normal.