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Portable Chrome Puts Chrome on Your Thumb Drive (Lifehacker)

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Submitted by Lurking_Biohazard on September 4, 2008 - 9:36pm

Windows only: You've seen its flashy features and were impressed with its speed, and now you wish you could put Google Chrome on your thumb drive and take it with you wherever you go? It's far from official, but German blogger Caschy has put together a portable version of Google Chrome you can run off your thumb drive. Just unzip the download to your thumb drive and run ChromeLoader.exe. All your Chrome settings and profile information now save to your thumb drive.

Automatic HDD->USB->HDD sync tool to speed up apps

Submitted by mojo-chan on September 2, 2008 - 5:12pm

Some apps run quite slowly off USB drives, Firefox being a notable example that I use a lot. What I normally do is copy the app to the desktop of the machine I am using, run it and then copy it back to the USB drive when finished.

That way it runs at normal speed, and with Firefox you can even have a disk cache if you set it to clear on exit.

John T. Haller: PortableApps.com Development Test page maintainence

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Submitted by Chris Morgan on September 2, 2008 - 4:03am

John,

While the PortableApps.com Development Tests page is very useful, Zach Huddock has been having less spare time, and now does not seem to be updating the page at all (other than for Songbird?). I am willing to work on this page to try and keep it up to date with any new programs/releases.

If you think that I would be useful with that, please give me access to change it and I will then feed through all the comments that have stacked up, and then continue to maintain it.

Lost Flash Drive

Submitted by tlchost on August 31, 2008 - 6:58pm

I recently lost a flash drive....and after the fact remembered a thread somewhere that detailed at least one method to have a message appear on the screen when something like pstart ran.

My search skills are pretty bad....so I have yet to find it. If someone can point me to a way to do that, I'd really appreciate it.

thanks

Thom

What is wrong with the server time?

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Submitted by digitxp on August 30, 2008 - 5:13pm

Obviously somebody else has noticed this as well (I've been here all day), drupal's tracker is out of whack today. In the OT forum, at this time, I'm the last person who posted, but no matter how many refreshes, PTMB's post is marked new and my reply to it is not.
I can only guess that it's either something at rackspace, or something with Drupal.
Hm... RackSpace or Drupal...
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on????

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