General Discussion

I'm thinking of putting these apps on my 128MB flash drive...

PStart
Portable Firefox
Portable Gaim
Portable Thunderbird
TrueCrypt
Foxit PDF Reader
µTorrent
WinAmp
7-Zip

Suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks in advance for those that read this
For all you others, I hope you lose your flash drive...

For me, it's Portable OpenOffice.org, even if the size is huge...

If anybody has a good word processor that does .doc and .rtf, yet is still small, please post it here. It can have limited functionality, but as long as it does the things listed above and has other needed features, I want to hear about it.

p.s.-I already know about PortableAbiWord, but I want something smaller. I also know about QJot, but that requires an install of it to be copied over to a USB stick.

I know you already have a thing set up where people can contact others using personal email accounts, but what if you had a little messaging system where you typed in the user you wanted to send a message to and it appeared in a "Mailbox" in the "My Account" space. The Mailbox would house the compose mail section and the Inbox section. You could also mail people by clicking a link in their Profile. It would not use outside email, but instead just have messaging. This would be quite useful for things you want to discuss with others outside of the forums, yet not divulge your personal email for privacy reasons. Admins would be able to read all these mails (of course). If anyone agrees, post a reply. Obviously the creation of apps takes precedence over this, so I don't expect to see this anytime soon.

does anyone know of any firefox extension that would extract all URLs (includeing swf, movies, jpegs) from a web page?

Well, that was quite an experience. PortableApps.com ended up on the homepage of both Slashdot and Digg at the same time. Needless to say, this shared-hosting-based Drupal site wasn't quite ready for all of that. I was able to get placeholders up within an hour or two and keep the pages disabled. The Support section was brought back online first. Then the Apps Directory. I've re-enabled the forums for now and am watching the server load. I may have to disable them again until we at least drop off the Slashdot homepage (4th from the bottom now).

John-

Do you have any games in mind for the Games section? I was wondering because not many people have posted requesting games. If you don't I'm sure I could dig up a few....

-Justin

http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php

You can find several very good apps there. You can also find Spread32, so far the only stand-alone spreadsheet I can find that is already portable.

Does anybody know of an open source video/DVD player that is already portable or could easily be made portable with a launcher?

I thought that you could put PortableGnumeric (when released) in the light version of the suite to give more functionality, yet still be lightweight.