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help with installation

Submitted by sherianderson derson on July 4, 2018 - 5:55am

A moment back when you updated your mobile application, you will
Just click update and they are downloaded and installed, now
You click on the update and they are downloaded and then you have to
manually click on any program to install, my last update has 78
The new program and I have to click on every program at least twice,
How can I change this to do it automatically so when I get back
It is all done, I do not have to do a website pile of clicks
to install

Question about using app (Snap Timer)

Submitted by June Choi on June 29, 2018 - 11:48am

Snap Timer is really helpful tool for time management.
I'm writing this post because I'd like to check if possible to use this app for our company.
lt'll make our meetings more efficient absolutely.
I knew that it's open for personal use.
I'd like to know it's also open for commercial use only for internal meeting.
I'm looking forward your reply soon Smile
Thank you.

Memory consumption test for portable browsers

Submitted by LiquidMK on June 17, 2018 - 5:30pm

Hi, people!
For those of you who is interested, as me, in the question - how many memory eats this or that browser, I made a simple non-scientific test of all available for today portable browsers from this portable platform:
Falcon port.3.0.1
Chrome port.67.0.3396.87
Iron port.66.0.345.0
K-Meleon port.75.1
Maxthon port.4.9.5.1000
Firefox port.60.0.2
Opera port.53.0.2907.99
SeaMonkey port.2.49.3
(port. just means portable version)
Excluding "Lynx" (text-based browser) and QupZilla (mentioned as Discontinued)

Setting up Portableapps for scientific writing

Submitted by daacosta on June 12, 2018 - 9:13am

Very well... I was able to successfully install QtGrace (Have an open issue with this app at Portableapps) and recently MKTeX. Both of them are running fine and I am thrilled to say that it will no longer be necessary to use anything else... Libreoffice suite is fine... I used to love Gnumeric before they decided to drop support for Windows... Is anyone familiar with a nice Markdown editor (other than CuteMarked) that can be installed or run natively? R runs fantastic as well so running statistical analyses is no problem....

Encouraging non-technical users

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Submitted by AllenSolomon on June 7, 2018 - 4:07pm

I am working with a volunteer organization that makes available a work area with 20 PCs for seniors, mostly with limited technical skills. Some of our regular users have given up their own machines in favor of this public access, but cannot save preferences, passwords, etc.
Can I encourage SAFE use of these programs to our governing board? Beyond the information on Wikipedia or this website how can I educate this conservative group? i.e. are there librarians who work with PortableApps?
Is there anyone who can connect with this board here in MD?

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