General Discussion

Just to keep everyone in the loop. I'm putting the final touches on both of these and will be releasing them on Tuesday. At least one other new app will be released as well. The Portable OpenOffice.org update is a big one as it adds compatibility and portability with all settings to all Windows versions (except Win95, which OO.o no longer supports).

A few other announcements will be coming this week as well including a full set of RSS feeds to watch everything on the site from app announcements to news to forum posts as well as the start of the development section.

Until then, have a

homepage: qip.ru
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I have looked for dsdel, but cannot find it anywhere. Can someone point me in the direction where I can find it (safe site, please)?

I do prefer using Eraser, but not sure if that is portable....comments?

Thanks all, and thanks so much Mr. Haller for this site and hard work.

John,

Are you planning to put any other word processors (besides AbiWord and OpenOffice) in the app directory?

I recently purchased a Mini TravelDrive from Memorex that had the u3 platform on it. It seems to have a nice clean front end and amazing potential to bring portable apps more mainstream. However my issue with it is the fact that some of the software packaged for u3 is low quality. In particular a company/person (YourBrainz) packaged Firefox for u3, and it is riddled with errors. While I was browsing the u3 site I found John Haller’s name under a second instance of Firefox in the software page saying coming soon. Do you have plans to release u3 compatible apps? What are your general thoughts on the u3 platform? I will stick with my Portable Firefox for now, as I have been very impressed with the build quality, but if you plan to make it u3 compatible or any other software u3 compatible I think you could really help get Portable Firefox more mainstream.

I would just like to personally thank the dev's out there that create the portable apps.
Ever since i found out about PortableFirefox a very long time ago i've gotten into the habit now of first inserting my USB flash drive then to double click on that nasty blue 'e' that is a bigger headache that could ever be conceived in the IT industry.

Also to the dev's that help code portable apps;
Is there some way that i can donate so that you can keep the good work up for us programming n00b's that have no idea but still wish to use the Portable Apps? I don't have paypal and i live in Oz (down under)

I like the splash screen for Portable Firefox, how about a Thunderbird one?

This is probably incredibly minor, but the startup images for some of the portable apps, or at least Firefox anyway, features the USB connection with six copper lines. USB has four...

check it ou :
http://www.theplaceforitall.com/portablefirefox/

I've added a new forum called Beta Testing in the Development category. If you're interested in helping test out the apps and launchers and getting them ready for public release, this is the place to look. I've started it off with a beta version of the Portable OpenOffice.org launcher that fixes the Windows 2000 issue and allows portable settings with Windows 98/Me.

Regards,
John