General Discussion

Here's my bi-monthly post on the state of the newsletters

It has been two months since the last newsletter from PortableApps.com and a lot has happened in the meantime. I personally feel that our users have a right to know what has been happening and as such, have taken it upon myself to make an unofficial newsletter for this month. I will gladly continue to create these in the future, as I feel they help me get a summary of what has happened and it also gives the community a quick review of what has happened. If John lets me, I will post these as official newsletters.

i was just wondering if anyone knows how i can change the font color of my app names in the menu

Hey everyone!

I thought I'd post on here just how I launch/use my USB workspace, in case it might help anyone.

I just realised that the Support page isn't updated so the links to the newest Apps support pages are missing.

Ok, as a followup to the Release Team I proposed, I think we all have a handle on it now. Now we need members. We needs folks with experience with portable apps who know what to look for. We're going to be establishing some testing guidelines as a community (primarily centered around the PortableApps.com Format Spec and the Installer plus testing for leave-behinds).

Microsoft's TechNet magazine this month (Sept 2008) has a story on PortableApps.com

For all the Ceedo and Portable Apps lovers, I figured out how to make Portable Apps show up on the Ceedo Mini bar at the bottom and on the menu. Its really simple.

First extract the portable app you want on to the Ceedo USB drive. Then copy that folder to

X:\Ceedo\User\Start Menu\Programs

is ur drive letter.

Then if you want to show a shortcut on the bar itself, just make a shortcut by right-clicking and click on create shortcut. After that copy that into:

X:\Ceedo\User\Desktop.

The following URL shows a screenshot of Windows 7 with the shortcut key to bring up Portable Apps in use for connecting to a projector.

http://www.thinknext.net/archives/2268

I know Windows 7 is a while away from release, but IMO the sooner you know about something the better. It might be a good idea to allow disabling the shortcut key in future versions of Portable Apps, ready for when Windows 7 is released. Configuring it to an alternative combination would be even better.

Getting ready to start doing the "ride the bus" commute again, and this time planning to take the laptop with. I was thinking my 8GB SD Card would have a lower profile (not stick out as much) as my USB stick. But what would the speed be like? Should I assume similar or... ?

I had an idea to use the apps from PortableApps.com with with Live Mesh and it works great! Install a portable application once and run it from any computer in your Mesh. I created a screencast with more details:

Cloud computing today, not tomorrow
http://screencasts.ehuna.org/2008/09/cloud_computing_today_not_tomo.html

Good times!

Emmanuel