General Discussion

1by1 is a 85kb app that can play whole directories of music with no need to edit a playlist. The GUI is decent considering the 85kb file. It also has Winamp input plugin support to play multiple file formats.

http://www.mpesch3.de/

I was just thinking, is there any of creating a decent system of programs that would clean up a computer (and keep it clean), e.g. antivirus programs? This would come in handy as an "emergancy cleanup kit" (or, at least that's what I'd like to do).

Hi. I've noticed that a lot of portable apps I've tried to install on my USB stick involve a lot of small files, which inflates the size of my apps quite a bit on the stick.

For example, Portable Firefox 1.5 with the extensions I installed comes in at 19.5MB, but size on disk is 22.7MB. Portable GIMP is even worse. Size is 17.5MB, but size on disk is 30.5MB, and it uses over a thousand files! Uniserver is almost as bad as Portable GIMP, too. 800-something files and going from 17.2MB to 27.3 MB. The whole Portable Apps folder I installed from the latest release (minus the old version of Portable Firefox which I deleted) goes from 197MB to 252 MB and uses over 5000 files! To contrast, a portable version of Ad-aware I found but have yet to use only has 8 files and only goes from 2.48MB to 2.56MB.

"Help.html" links to "johnhaller.com".

i would love to be able to be my own smtp server. on the go..

I just joined the forum so I could post this link as it might interest quite a few of you.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/index.html
Essentially it's a guide to installing windows on a usb flash drive with the intent of it working like a live CD. There are loads of obvious uses for this, like fixing a computer that won't boot, or even running windows on a computer with no hard drive in it. Just thought it might be interesting!

Even these can go on a USB stick:

inkscape (open source vector graphic editor)
blender3d (open source 3d app)
hydrairc (open source irc client)

they all come in .zip format

does wackget actually split a file into 4 (for example) smaller files to download them, like other full fledged download managers?

i've also noticed that it takes a longer time to start the actual download when compared with other download managers.

I think the ability to use relative paths instead of absolute paths should be a requirement.

For example, in winamp I can set my media library directories to relative paths so that it can pick up and track media on and added to my portable hard drive. As another example, foobar is primarily portable, but its media library only allows use of absolute paths.

Hi John,

is it possible to change the sorting of the postings within a thread? It is a little bit hard to find and read new postings in a "hot-thread".

eg. (1.) = first posting; (2.) = second posting and so on:
this is the actual posting sorting settings:
(1.)
..(6.)
..(3.)
....(8.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
..(2.)
....(4.)


I think this would be much better readable - especially when people don't "reply" but "add a new comment" when answering to an other posting:
(1.)
..(2.)
....(4.)
..(3.)
....(5.)
......(7.)
....(8.)
..(6.)


Maybe it is possible to include individual view settings or change the (general) view settings if other people have a hard time to follow discussion in an 20+ postings thread, too Thanks in advance.