General Discussion

This question is mainly towards John.

Is there a reason that all the links here go to the indirect download and mirror selection page, http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/*.paf.exe?download, rather than to the direct redirection to the download (i.e. proper download) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/portableapps/*.paf.exe?

As I see it, the only advantage to the indirect one is that you get to select a mirror, whereas downloads are a lot easier to start and use with the direct technique (and then you can use the Save as... context menu item).

They have newer stuff than on here. They update VLC, Notepad++, and so many other things way before portableapps.com does. And they have a lot of stuff this site doesn't. Like ConvertXtoDVD, PhotoShop Portable, Dreamweaver Portable, and so many more. Check it out!

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Hi all,

Let me start out by saying how much I love portable apps and the freedom it gives me to work mobile. I've been toying with the idea of using portable apps on my computer (Vista) instead of the larger downloads of OO, Firefox and other software I can easily run through PA. The idea is to have a hard drive that is light because of PA and therefore performs much faster, plus I would end up with less digital clutter.

I like your input on this please?

Is my thinking on the right track or not?
Cheers
Monika

Recently on IRC some people have been asking some questions that have been mentioned in the forums (but more of in random replies than anything else). Perhaps a FAQ should be written that covers areas like upgrading, installing and advanced options. Is anyone up to the challenge, to write such a thing?

If I'm not mistaken, this post is several days old, but when I checked it via the tracker, it showed up as a new post, posted yesterday, the 28th. I believe it was made the same day or a day after MarkoMlm's posting. https://portableapps.com/node/18859#comment-117796 HorusofOz should be able to verify this, as it's his post.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10229540-83.html

Looks like even our method of showing an entry in the AutoPlay window (via Action=) is going to stop working in Windows 7 RC1...

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was: Heads up, guys

their been an error in the everytime i try to make a apps i get this error and i think its this ifndef that code popup twice in my install once in the language part and the other half way at the end cuz i am making a portable poweriso just for me and i want to also kno if its possible to make one

hello everybody

Is possible put a shortcut or .exe in the menu of Portable Apps?

Thanks for all

We will be performing some scheduled maintenance to the site at 10AM EDT time (New York time) tomorrow. This maintenance will help the site run better and continue to grow and serve our millions of users. During this time, a simple status page will show stating that we'll be right back and have links to our downloads from SourceForge.net which will continue to work during the maintenance window. The maintenance should last about an hour but could run longer.

Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Best,
John

Is there actually a newsletter being published, or am I just not getting it for some reason? I've had this account with my gmail account for about a month, and I signed up for the newsletter using my ISP email at least a month before that, but I've never received a newsletter. When I click on the "newsletter" link at the top right of the screen, there is a link for previous editions, but that only shows the first one. Am I missing something? When did the last issue get published? Maybe you should automatically send the most recent edition to new subscribers. Thank you.