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Testing of beta versions of apps before public release.

Portable SWORD Project

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Submitted by Zach Thibeau on October 20, 2006 - 11:46pm

Ok guys This is my first portable application. There are some stuff to kill like Creating a profile. just click ok and it will load just fine. You can find the file here Portable Sword Project
ps
The Splash image may look familiar. I wanted something good but couldn't design anything worthy.(Sorry John... I just loved your splash image) and don't worry The SWORD Project is under GPL

DAMN NFO Viewer Portable

Submitted by ekin_116 on October 19, 2006 - 2:28am

DAMN NFO Viewer is an utility for viewing text files containing ASCII Art (e.g. nfo files), and it proved itself to be handy So... if you're fed up with starting some DOS-like file manager each time you need to view nfo file, or ain't too happy with the viewer you use, or (worst case) use Notepad - give this little tool a try.

DAMN NFO Viewer is a freeware. You can get it at
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Office-tools/Text-editors/DAMN-NFO-Viewer.s...

DAMN NFO Viewer Portable here: (I have added two more download links)
http://www.filefactory.com/file/01632f/
http://rapidshare.com/files/430341/Damn_NFO_Viewer_Portable.zip.html

AutoStart second release

Submitted by rene on October 17, 2006 - 9:23pm

It is now 4 weeks ago that the initial AutoStart.exe was released, so I thought it was time for an update. Here is the short list of what has changed:

  1. USB Hard Drives now have a tray icon.
  2. TrueCrypt volumes, now also get a tray icon.
  3. TrueCrypt volumes stored on a flash drive are automatically dismounted when that flash drive is ejected.
  4. Selecting 'Eject/Unplug' on a TrueCrypt volume itself will dismount it.
  5. Code to eject a drive has been rewritten from scratch and now supports more exotic device trees.
  6. I improved the code that scans the flash drive for portable applications to handle PortableApps directories better.

U3-autorun: A U3 Launchpad replacement to launch your own applications.

Submitted by walkeraj on October 12, 2006 - 3:26pm

I have written an application called U3Autorun that is designed to replace the launchpad code in the U3 partition of U3-enabled flash drives. The application, when run from the U3 partition, performs the following actions:

1) Spawns a copy of itself to a temp folder on the user's hard drive.
2) The copy then scans the root directories of all removable drives
for a file u3-autorun.ini.
3) If it finds this file, it scans it for the name of the executable
to run relative to it.
4) Finding that, it runs the executable.
5) Optionally, it will wait for the executable to finish running and

How to eject an USB Flash Drive

Submitted by rene on September 20, 2006 - 8:06am

To avoid having to include copyrighted code I decided to describe in detail the method Uwe Sieber has discovered to Eject a drive.
Because the method of doing something is not protected by copyright, anyone following these steps and coming to a working solution will have their own copyright on the code thus produced.

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This document describes the method Uwe Sieber uses to perform a device eject

See also:
How to prepare an USB drive for save removal
By Uwe Sieber.
http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/RemoveDriveByLetter.asp

Portable WinImage

Submitted by otbsupport on September 19, 2006 - 1:49am

This is just me playing around with making apps portable, but there seemed to be some interest, so here it is...

WinImagePE

My servers should be back up soon after a little bit of an overhaul and you'll be able to get to the actual site again, but until then, SourceForge will do the trick.

Due to legal concerns involving the WinImage license, this launcher ships without the WinImage core files. To get these files, connect to WinImage Homepag

Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.7 Pre-Release 3 - Testers Urgently Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 18, 2006 - 1:49pm

I've posted a pre-release of 1.5.0.7 for testers. Despite this being an incremental upgrade of Thunderbird, the portable version is seeing a number of changes. If we could get some folks giving these another once-over before they're released to the world, that would be great...

  • Unicode Command Lines - This release now supports unicode paths passed on the commandline.
  • Win 95/98 Live Support - There was an issue affecting Live mode under Win 9x that has been fixed.
  • Alternate Directory Structures Dropped - All alternate directory structures have been dropped. This allows for a more simplified launcher and increases startup time a bit. You can always use an INI to setup your own structure. the readme.txt is now linked to right in the help file.

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