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Cranky Geeks Ep 113 @ about 0:12:10

"You wanna know a good download for that (flash drive)- for those things? PortableApps.com - go there and in one download you get like 55 cool applications, and they just reside in your pocket." - Sebastian Rupley

About the show:

I'm looking for a program that can rip music from and audio CD without quality degradation. The audio must be ripped in a Lossless format so that the original quality is maintained. I would prefer the app to be freeware and portable, not necessrily a PortableApp Release. Thank you.

Hey i was searching the forum for how to create a theme. I couldent find anything so im hoping that there wasent a post about this and that i just missed it.

Anyway how do you make a theme?

Also how do you make a custom theme not just changing the colours like actually change the size of it, what you can click etc

thanks

I've noticed that drupal supports a thing called OpenID which i use on certain sites, including mine. Can portableapps.com start supporting this feature? thanks

Website For OpenID

This is simply a post to say thanks to John Hall and all of the PortableApps.com team. From the programmers and testers to the moderators, posters and users. Thank you all.

My virus scanner, CA eTrust, is detecting the Win32/Loodok!generic.2 Trojan. This is being reported against the system.dll which gets extracted from the application launcher.

I doesn't happen on all apps; the latest ClamWin is okay, but firefox and filoezilla, for example, exhibit the problem. I have even re-downloaded the firefoxportable.paf.exe but it also shows a trojan when run, and the MD5 checksum is correct. Running the application executable directly, without the launcher, works perfectly.

just to get this out of the way, recently, mods have started requesting that we use the Add Comment link instead of just replying, problem is, i dont feel like scrolling down through 50 posts on "Corrupt a Wish" and then scrolling all the way back up to the top just to hit the Add Comment instead of the convienient Reply. **do you think we could have the Add Comment replace or at least be next to the Reply?**

I have seen in the web page you would like to develope a portable Linux.

Such thing exist. Check the distribution DSL
www.damnsmalllinux.org

The basic system is only 50Mb, including basic aplications.
Can boot from cd, usb or hard disk.
Can boot on windows using qemu virtual machine.

All you need is to add it to your menu.

Until recently I have been using a 1gb usb.
Then when I went to upgrade I saw a 120 gb Western Digital external/portale hard drive. Being tha newbie I am, I thought it would act the same as a usb just massive :o)

I really dislike the documents and settings folder. Over years more and more cruft is inside. It`s complex and difficult to clean up.

Is there some common way to redirect any request of an application to write to %appdata% to /programfolder/username?

That way software would be already much more portable and I could delete all files of applications I am no longer using.