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Testing of beta versions of apps before public release.

Centralised Hosting

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Submitted by Simeon on February 29, 2008 - 2:18pm

Thaks to Steve, we now have a place where everybody can upload his/her DevelopmentTestReleases. It is meant for everyone who doesnt have his/her own webspace and wants to share his Apps anyhow. Steve will keep an eye on it and remove old stuff so it doesnt get too crowded.
It even has RSS/email notification.
Just post all complaints/suggestinos here in this thread.

I think thats it for now.

Thanks Steve for doing this!

ImgBurn Portable (v2.4.0.0), proper PAM/standalone portable app package

Submitted by k3nd00d@yahoo.com on February 29, 2008 - 7:43am

I keep seeing references to people saying ImgBurn is portable, yet nobody has really put it together in a proper portable app package. Well, I have. This is my first attempt at doing such a thing as I just recently became interested in making some USB flash drives using PAM and began to see there were programs out there that were perfect for PAM but not yet properly implemented, so I tackled one of my favorites.

I do realize the goal is to use open source software. While ImgBurn is not open source, it is freeware and very useful (it has a huge fan base).

ScreenSaver - Screenshot-Utility

Submitted by atreiju on February 28, 2008 - 11:59am

Hi all,

I make extensive use of the windows-screenshot function (pressing "PRINT SCRN" and "ALT + PRINT SCRN"), to share screenshots over IM or Email.

What i really hated was, that i always had to open an Image-Program like Paint of Photoshop to paste in the screenshot and then save it to a jpg-File.

I dont want to have a real screenshot utility running in the background all the time, and usually these applications are overloaded with functions i do not need. So i wrote this very simple and portable app bye myself.

Miranda IM Portable 0.7.3 Pre-Release 1 (Quick Test Needed For Thursday Release)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 28, 2008 - 2:46am

I've just posted a pre-release of the upcoming 0.7.3 release of Miranda IM Portable. I'm going the pre-release route as this new release will combine the ANSI and Unicode versions of Miranda IM into a single portable app. The launcher will automatically launch the unicode version on Windows 2000 and up and the ANSI version when running on Windows 95/98/Me.

NSIS 2.38 Portable Development Test 2

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Submitted by ZachHudock on February 27, 2008 - 10:17pm

Base App: NSIS

Category: Development

About:
NSIS is the scripting language used to write all of the launchers for the applications on this site, NSIS Portable includes the full NSIS package so beginning users will have examples, tutorials and help files to work from. It it highly recommended to download another application from this site and use those scripts as samples for creating your own portable apps.

[Theme] Zune Theme (Designed for the Windows Zune theme)

Submitted by Skeletorfw on February 27, 2008 - 8:00pm

(to go with PAM: xrx's mod)
Here you go, my first skin and submission to our beautiful forums

I'm a graphical artist in my spare time but mostly i'm just a student

Here is this Zune orange+black theme

(original source images were from XrX's Rolling Blue theme provided with the mod)

Download:
http://www.deviantart.com/download/78611661/Zune_theme_for_PAM_by_skeletorfw.zip

UPXcmd Portable Dev Test 1 [Testers Wanted]

Submitted by jeffm on February 27, 2008 - 6:55am

I was looking for a gui for UPX on SourceForge and found UPXcmd. It had been been set up a as .paf.exe back in September, so I decided to try it out.

Turns out it wasn't really PAF compliant as we are using today, so I set about redoing it to make it so.

From the author's readme:
UPXcmd is an open source GUI (Graphical User Interface) for excellent
executable packer, UPX (Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, upx.sf.net).

UPXcmd package contains a new program, UPXcmd DropBox. Dropbox allows
you to compress your files by dragging them to an always on top window.

MediaCoder 0.6.1.4112 Portable Development Test 1 [Outdated]

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Submitted by Kevin Porter on February 26, 2008 - 7:59pm

Application: MediaCoder
Category: Music & Video
Description: MediaCoder is a free universal batch media transcoder, which nicely integrates most popular audio/video codecs and tools into an all-in-one solution. MediaCoder allows you to convert, transcode, and decode dozens of the most popular audio and video formats.

Download MediaCoder Portable 0.6.1.4112 Development Test 1 [16.7MB download / 23MB installed]

VisualBoyAdvance-M Portable Development Test 2

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Submitted by Zach Thibeau on February 25, 2008 - 10:43pm

Application:VisualBoyAdvance-M
Category:Games & Emulation
Description:Combine the best features of the VBA forks in one build.
Multi-platform support so that your GBA emulation experience is more complete.
Release Notes:

  • Development Test 2 fixes the efficiency Drive letter handling pointed out by ZachHudock
  • Updated VisualBoyAdvance to include vba-m svn 470
  • Development Test 1 Initial Release

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