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Submitted by seismicmike on February 9, 2006 - 10:01pm

I'm moving to portable apps.. I like the idea of having Firefox, Sunbird etc on my stick... However, I already have all the programs set up on my hard drive and I have their settings tweaked and such to just the way I want them. Does anyone know how I can copy these settings over to the portable version so I don't have to do them manually. The biggest help would be transferring my sunbird calendar b/c I do not relish the thought of having to manually enter all of my dates and tasks again

Thanks.

Going away!

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on February 9, 2006 - 11:08am

As there is no off-topic forum, I will post it here. I will be away for the next three days, but still should have some new stuff for you all and the start of next week. They are:

1. A new Profile Sync release
2. A version of Profile Sync built into Portable Firefox
3. A mini-backup program, I wrote it for myself but I may as well release it.

See you all very soon

Steve Lamerton

Battle for wesnoth!

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 7, 2006 - 5:12pm

Just wanted to point out that the awesome open source game "Battle for Wesnoth" works from a usb key, simply by copying the wesnoth folder to the drive. (approx 55MB)
I havent tried multiplayer from the USB key yet, more details to follow.

Alternative to a loader: Use a new shell!

Submitted by TGStarfire on February 6, 2006 - 7:43pm

Here is an idea that I havent seen thrown around in here yet, so I figure I can touch base with it. With apps like pstart and such are excellent for loading programs from a key, but still it doesnt have the customization (and personality) as your own desktop, and for those of us who dont know a thing about cars, I think its time we "tricked out" something of our own for a change. I figure, why not give a shot to something like a portable shell that can be loaded on every machine, to make that computer really yours for just a short while. having worked just a little on shell programs, this is something I havent had too much experience with, so this is as much a learning experience as it is a writing experience for me. As such, any comments, criticisims, or missing info you would like to add would be wonderful.

Portable Mac apps on a PC formated USB flash drive How-to...

Submitted by Nick on February 5, 2006 - 3:22pm

For those who use both Mac and PC. There is a way to run both PC and Mac portable apps on a USB flash drive seemlessly by creating a HFS+ formatted sparse disk image directly on the FAT formated USB flash drive.

First there is a website for portable apps for Mac at http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps where you should download Portable Firefox, Portable Adium, Portable Thunderbird, etc.
And of course http://www.portableapps.com for PC users.

Second, format your USB flash drive as FAT (MS-DOS) if it isn't already.

Third, on a Mac, go to "Disk Utility" and select your USB flash drive, then go to File-> New-> Blank Disk Image. Type a name for it, select a place for it (your USB flash drive), select a size, but make it around the size of your USB flash drive so you have room on the disk image for your portable Mac apps.

On a Sony PSP

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 5, 2006 - 2:38pm

Am I the only person in the world using portable apps from my Sony PSP if you save the file s as jpeg in the psp in the PHOTO folder you can even view them without going near a PC something even the humble flash drive cant do. I have installed Open office, Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird, on my PSP's 2gig inernal memory card
warm regards

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