General Discussion

Just found this site. Thanks for the work that you guys put into making these apps possible. I just downloaded & am using the portable firefox.

The question that I have is: How long can you expect a jump drive to last. I've always heard that solid state media would last for a long time (tens or hundreds of thousands of rewrites) but I've only used one in my camera to store images. Now that I'm using it to run a web browser, what kind of a lifespan do you think I can expect?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

First Bug:
- "My Recent Post" isn't updated properly, it shows "2 days ago" for post from 25th February ...

And Request:
- One option for a forum category: "Mark all posts read" ... it would be good to mark some topich read so that when I again enter the forum I exacly know what's new ...

Hi John,

would it be possible to make the launchers (and their sourcecode) be downloadable alone?
Right now I don't have a broadband internet access and it is really to painful to download e.g. the Portable OpenOffice ZIP just to use its new launcher with my modified (UPXed and rezipped) localized version of (P)OOo.
Thanks in advance.

Cya Ryushi

I use a text editor on my system at work which I do not have ADM rights. Would be nice if someone could see how portable it is. The name is Context and it works with most programs and can be customised.

http://context.cx

Thanks

Just got the update info.
Might want to add it to your blog John.

One thing I've noticed is that there are a lot of really cool apps that are coming out of PortableApps and PortaSoft, but they all look kinda bland. Does anyone know if theres work to come up with a default look and feel that is lightweight, simple, and elegant for the portable apps that are released? Not all of the apps support themes and skins but for the ones that do it would make the releases that much better.

are there any alternatives to pass to go that are as easy to use?

i dont mean just programmes that hold details of passswords, need one click access

There's an excellent listing of avaiable portable apps for both Windoze & Mac at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Application
BTW - This here website tops the list of their external links!

Well, as title.

I myself now have 3 file managers in my computer, temporarily.
Haven't decided which one to keep or delete yet.
I got:

a43
2x explorer
vapor

I think a43 and 2x are portable, but I don't know the entry thing. OTZ
a43 is good, but not support some asian characters(unicode?).
2x explorer seems ok. not find anything wrong yet.
VAPOR, I can't find any info about it.
It's included in a shell software called Sharp-e.
You have to open the installed dir to find it, cuz it seems not the standard component of Sharp-e.
Vapor is a file manager and web borswer as well.
There's a button to switch.

I'm considering switching from ZIPs to self-extracting archives for the app downloads. This wouldn't be an installer, just a standard self extractor created by 7-zip. Run the EXE, it asks where to extract to, you click OK. I think this will be easier for the less-technical end users. And it shouldn't impact any users on limited rights machines as it isn't an installer.

Any thoughts?