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The GM CIO said he's also interested in exploring other emerging IT approaches, including what is sometimes called a "PC on a stick" -- a USB drive that is loaded with the user's desktop. The drive can recreate that desktop on multiple machines.

The "PC on a stick" technology can "enable my home PC to do everything that I want to do at GM," said Kline. The drive is encrypted, so a misplaced drive would result simply in the loss of a $15 device, he said. "It's something I'm pushing really hard with my technology guys - that's got my eye," he said.

hi all,

does anybody know an app that can sync my outlook at work (some kinda of MS activesyn) with my new smart phone. they blocked all software installment and activesync is not allowed to because of security(?!) resaons.

I read somewhere that active sync is not possible to make portable but is there other software that can do the same?

tx!

Is there an easy way to test whether a program is compliant with the PAF standards of portability?

I am one (of many) who does what John T. opposes, running portable software on my hard drive. Strictly because of ease of backup/reinstall. My recent upgrade to Win7 went incredibly easily because of use of a separate program partition and use of portable software.

Firstly many thanks for the wonderful platform you have made and supported and all the work people have made in creating all the apps over the years.

As you all know supporting an app is a major amount of work in itself. In regards for FREEWARE apps would it not be a good idea to have a contact person for each app. This contact person would automatically receive all support request from users regarding their freeware app from their forum thread (or other support environments).

This would have a number of advantages.

I've noticed that recently we are getting quite a few number of revision releases. Also news bodies have some mistakes. Now, I don't want to sound to be picky and I know alot of efforts are being put but wouldn't having a quality assurance team help serve better quality (releases/news)?

Hello,
I´m trying to create some launchers/shortcuts to run cmd.exe from my stick in the local installation (with parameters).
So far I have tried with some variables but they haven´t work, like

%HomeDrive%\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
%SystemDrive%\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
%SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe
%SYSTEMDRIVE%\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe
Also with %ComSpec% and %Path% .
It doesn´t work neither if I leave "\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe" since it uses the drive of the usb.

Any help on how to make it work?

Hey all,

I figured I'd do a quick status update since folks have been wondering what's up with 2.0. I'd originally planned on dropping Beta 4 as a final beta last wednesday and doing the 2.0 final this week. Unfortunately, that got sidelined by some extra legal and business work that needed doing and, moreso, by the fact that I decided to rewrite the PortableApps.com Updater.

Hi,
I want to deliver an USB Key to students with portableapps.com but with theme and logo of my University. Is it allowed and in which conditions? It is not for a commercial use!
And what about PAM mod from PTC (http://ptc.kain-planet.de/)?

So it is looking more and more likely that I will be going to FOSDEM in February next year (6th – 7th), and I would love there to be a PortableApps.com presence. There are three ways in which we could do this:

1. A stand. This is the most difficult organisationally, but possibly the best way to spread the PA.com goodness. To do this we will need commitments from people that they can help man it and we will have to be able to cover the stand for the whole weekend

I'm thinking PortableApps is a good method for making an effective autorun solution for an MP3 CD. Would CoolPlayer be the best choice for this?

VLC is a pretty good media player, but takes too long to start up. Not sure about XMPlay, I wasn't using it (in favor of VLC, once I realized it played music too) so I took it off, but it was nice when I used it. Compact and it looked good. I've seen some nice skins for it, too.