General Discussion

John T. HallerI don't think we want to go the shovelware route for suites. Some of the illegal portable software sites have 200+ apps in them. But you're only going to use maybe 10 or 20 of them anyway. Random utilities you have no use for, 10 apps that do the exact same thing, etc. They're basically shovelware suites and they do that to force you to download all the apps so they can count that one download as 200 downloads.

This is a heads up for the PortableApps.com community.

We desire also to officially apologize to the PortableApps community, given that we used some of their powerful portable software without giving proper credit for their efforts. We are working to fix all issues, rehabilitating disabled splash screens and other minor inaccuracies, hoping to resolve these problems within the next Suite release. - http://www.lupopensuite.com/ (4-30-10)

Lupo has re-enabled the splash screens and placed the bookmarks back into Firefox Portable.

His suite is also going GPL and Open Source.

I've tried using Ketarin with limited success and also Update Notifier also with very limited success. I was wondering how everyone here keeps their favorite portable apps up to date on their thumb drives. I have resorted to just monitoring the RSS feeds until something better comes along.

Program: BitTorrent
License: "...open source licenses."
Site: http://www.bittorrent.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/bittorrent/

Free, open source file-sharing application effective for distributing very large software and media files.

Just FYI for anyone interested, as of 1.0.2, foobar2000 uses relative paths in its native playlist file for portable installs. IIRC, the use of absolute paths in the playlist was the only thing keeping it from being truly portable.

So after talking about nomination earlier it quickly became clear that actually before we could set a team up we needed to know what it was doing!

There are some initial thoughts here, and as the discussion moves on I will update this post. Some things to think about are:

• Shedule for clearing the backlog
• What actually needs to be tested
• How is the work going to be split up
• How much responsibility and power should the head have
• When is it right to move an app between stages

Please see this post for the latest discussion.

So, as mentioned in the latest status update the release team is rising, phoenix like, from the ashes of the last attempt.

This is the nomination thread, you may either nominate yourself or someone else, but that person must then confirm that they can make the time commitment needed to be part of the team and that they actually want to!

What is the release team?

As I saw more and more spam posts popping up here and there lately, I thought it would be cool to have a post where people could report spam posts and then Moderators could go and delete them.

I cant delete the posts myself but I hope this is still helpful.

Question: How do I delete comments like in the other "Outdated Apps" thread? Or do only mods have that power?

Greetings all. I wanted to post a quick and dirty status update since it's been a while since there have been any official updates on some of the goings-on behind the scenes at PortableApps.com.

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¿Is there any way to mount this virtual read-only CD drive (from U3 smart drives) in a regular usb stick? because I've scanned the whole Internet (xD) and i couldn't find the answer, soooo.... Here I'm!

Help much appreciated!!! Thank you!