General Discussion

Lately i've become addicted to portable apps, and I've been on a mission to find the best option (in my opinion) for portable storage, speed, reliability, and lifespan.

After buying and testing 4 USB stick drives, and two usb mini hard drives, i've found that the new WD passport pocket hard drive is by far the best device on the market for portable apps.

After trying out four different USB stick drives (memorex travel drive, sandisk cruzer etc..) I was very disappointed in the speed that all my portable apps were loading. Firefox was lagging pretty bad on all four of the usb stick drives I tested. I was also worried about the lifespan of these drives, because i know that they only last for a certain amount of writes/rewrites and can die pretty quick under heavy use.

I've been experimenting with several of the apps running from a new GeIL 1GB USB flash drive on a mid-range Dell D510 notebook and I'm dumbfounded at how fast AbiWord and OpenOffice load. AbiWord is up almost instantaneously (well, about four seconds, actually, but I've never seen a word processor load so fast) and OpenOffice Writer opens in about 15 seconds.

(The Dell is no speed demon, but the GeIL USB drive is purported to be one of the faster drives on the market.)

I'm certainly impressed with these portable

Hello everybody,

I don't remember if this issue has already been posted here. I was wondering about the possibility to carry portable apps on the memory card of a mobile phone.
I am planning to buy someday a new mobile phone and I was wondering if when connecting one to a Personal Computer, the latter can see the memory card directly or if you always have to pass through some sync software.

Do you have any idea?

Thanks

Hi.

Is there a way of using ms SyncToy to backup my memory stick? I know how to launch a "folder pair" from the command line and have PStart run that as an option, but my memory stick changes drive letter (obviously) so is there any way of passing the drive letter to sync from into SyncToy?

I know it's worded badly, but you probably get the drift...

Thanks.

Andrew.

Hello All,

I was wondering if someone could help me find a suitable portable email client for use with a USB drive.

Currently I have 4 email accounts. One personal account with POP3&IMAP support, a work account (POP3), a separate personal account for SPAM (POP3), and a second work account (POP3). I manage the first 3 with Outlook Express on my home PC and the 4th through the gmail website.

Ideally I would love to have the email client only SYNC with these accounts such that it leaves all the email either on the server or available for my home Outlook Express. Therefore when I SYNC in the morning, I would have access to whatever is at home. However I would have the comforts of an email client while away at work. But throughout the day it would leave everything on the server so when I get home I can still use Outlook Express and have my messages.

so, i tried just copying over my emacs directory and putting the binary into pstart, and it seems like the only thing that is keeping me from having a "real" portable app is that i don't know how to tell emacs to look for me .emacs config file on my thumbdrive rather than in the emacs directory that it usually is in on my windows machine.

I'm sure this problem has been overcome with other portable apps . .

is there an easy solution to this?

if so, what is it?

Howdy!

My name is TeX HeX and I'm the developer of a tweaking application. We are currently evaluating the possibilities of making our app "portable" and thus came across this site. We thought it might be a good idea to ask the people that are dealing with portable apps already what they would expect from a portable version.

Please excuse if this thread is in the wrong forum, but since this is not really a development topic nor about an already existing program, I thought that "General" would be OK.

If I understand it correctly, most users don't have anything against a portable app that copies several files and registry entries to the computer when launching the portable app _AS LONG_ as it ensured that after the use of the app these files and registry entries are removed?

Yadabyte Notes is a pretty innovative take on note taking that’s aimed at "Getting Things Done" practitioners but can be used by anyone.

Features:

1. Fully portable - including the single notes file which can be opened in any browser.
2. Open note format - We use HTML as the format but then parse this internally for the extra features.
3. Perpetual - every note records its history. Reuse, don’t delete.
4. Find/Filter Navigation - we think this kind of navigation is the future of content browsing and searching. It’s very intuitive and, as far as we know, isn’t used anywhere else, yet. Even with a million notes, Find/Filter will allow you to navigate them in the fastest most natural way.

Gimp v2.2.11 has been released, news for everybody and those who may be coding it over to portable status w00t.

Bugs fixed in GIMP 2.2.11
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- fixed handling of EXIF data in JPEG plug-in (bug #303383)
- let gimptool use pkg-config to determine compiler and linker flags at
run-time (bug #324761)
- added GTK+ category in gimp.desktop file (bug #328012)
- fixed guides scripts to allow guides at the right and bottom (bug #328320)
- fixed icons in color picker buttons in Levels tool (bug #325745)
- fixed parameter check in Compressor plug-in
- made the internal help browser the default for all platforms (bug #329888)

Happy Easter to everyone on the Portable Apps forums!