General Discussion

This was originally supposed to be my bio, but it turned into so much more. This is the story of how PortableApps changed my life.

My name is Zackery and though I am young, I have big dreams. I don't know exactly, but after I graduate college, I will definitely get a job in the technology area. Programming or game design are my top two choices.

Even though good equipment is costly, my family doesn't have much money so I spend most of my days at my decade-old Dell desktop with Windows XP doing whatever I can with 256mb of RAM and a 15gb hard drive.

Would it be possible to add the canary builds of Google Chrome to Portable Apps. Obviously it would need to be updated a lot though.

Well, is this possible? I mean, is possible that installed apps to be "aware" of other intalled apps, instead of using the Operating System defaults? (Like, PortableThunderbird being aware that PortableFirefox is installed and open the links from a mail there)

I've searched through the forum, and only found this old thread https://portableapps.com/node/700 about that topic, but, since it's from early 2006, and I can't find anything related since then.

Would it be possible to make this portable?

I like using this program because of the amount of care it covers and the amount of programs available in the package but the free version seems to lack a bit of the features that the Professional version has. Do you guys think it is a good program or is there a better free alternative?

Hello. Long time, no forum.

Is there any application currently in the PA.c stable that allows me to locate and remove duplicated or cloned files?

After years of accumulating files, moving them around on drives and making numerous backups for OS reinstalls, I'm 100% certain that I've created more than one or two duplicates along the way.

I see there have been one or two suggestions on the forums already from searching:
Duplicate Files Finder: http://doubles.sourceforge.net/
AllDupe: http://www.alldup.de/en_index.htm

These seem to be the popular two.

I'm tired of this shit:

---------------------------
someApp Portable (PortableApps.com Launcher)
---------------------------
someApp Portable did not close properly last time it was run and will now clean up. Please then start someApp Portable again manually.
---------------------------
ОК
---------------------------

I don't give a shit whether it was closed properly or not, just execute it when I double-click it!
Need to run some 'clean up'? - fine, run it silently and then execute the damn app!

Hello. I synchronize portable apps folder via BtSync, and when files are moved it creates problems. Settings can be removed.

Good idea to prevent such actions globally.

I've completed another site modification to speed up page loads. Our social sharing buttons are now all static. The buttons in the upper right were switched months ago. Just today, I completed implementation of a custom set of static share buttons for app pages, forum posts, etc. Now, instead of loading a heavy Javascript from Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and LinkedIn on every page to show the like, share and tweet buttons, it's loading a set of static images that hook to a single Javascript function to handle popping up a window to the standard URL for each of those services.

I just barely installed DamnVid for the first time. I have never used it. I understand it's a Video Downloader.

I used to use YTD Downloader, but I haven't found a portable version of it and that's what I'd prefer given that I really use it only on my sister's computer because of her High Speed Internet. And now that SUPERAnti-Spyware and / or Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware flag it as having Spigot or something, I'd rather not be installing YTD Downloader in their new computer.