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Testing of beta versions of apps before public release.

ClamWin Portable 0.88.4 Pre-Release - Testers Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 9, 2006 - 12:45pm

I've just posted a pre-release of ClamWin Portable0.88.4. This new release features the following changes:

Live CD Support - ClamWin Portable now supports running directly from a CD. This will only work in its default directory layout with no INI. Be sure to run it locally first and download the latest virus definitions before burning to CD.

In-Place Upgrades - ClamWin Portable now supports the ability to do what I'm calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of ClamWin Portable without losing any of your existing data and it'll Just Work (tm). Obviously, this will be going forward as you'll need to manually upgrade this time due to the new directory layout.

[SELF PROMOTION] Bookmark Base: portable bookmark manager

Submitted by AlexanderB on August 7, 2006 - 5:41pm

Hello!

I would like to pre-present you portable bookmark manager called "Bookmark Base". It's already pretty stable so don't be afraid to work with it. I hope that less than in one week it will get a public release.

Here we have two download links:
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It's simple and straight: import&export bookmarks between different browsers and stay portable. The most interesting features are bookmark checker and powerful category&bookmarks editor.

I would like to get a feedback from professional portable software users: is it comfortable to use, is it fast, do you like GUI and so on. The most valuable feedback providers will be rewarded with free registration!

AbiWord Portable 2.4.5 Pre-Release - Testers Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 6, 2006 - 6:53pm

I've just posted a pre-release of AbiWord Portable 2.4.5 with OpenDocument support. This new release features the following changes:

Registry Changes Saved - Although AbiWord automatically reserves the abw and zabw file types and adds another entry to the registry on the local PC, the AbiWord Portable launcher automatically removes this when you close AbiWord. It will even preserve your existing registry settings if you have a local copy of AbiWord. And it has account type detection so this will work correctly with guest and limited accounts under Windows 2000 without error.

Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 Pre-Release - Testers Urgently Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on August 3, 2006 - 11:54am

I've just posted a pre-release of Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5. The new features are:

In-Place Upgrades - Thunderbird Portable now supports the ability to do what I'm calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of Thunderbird Portable without losing any of your existing data and it'll Just Work (tm).

Live CD Support - Thunderbird Portable 1.5.0.5 now has built in support for running from a CD or other read-only medium (aka Thunderbird Portable Live). You just need to grab the INI from the Other\ThunderbirdPortableSource and drop it next to ThunderbirdPortable.exe. Edit it and set RunLocally to true. Just be sure to run ThunderbirdPortable.exe at least once BEFORE setting both these options so that it correctly sets up a default profile. Your thunderbird, profile, registry, gpg and plugins directories will be copied to the local machine's temp directory and Thunderbird Portable will execute from there. When you exit, all the temp files will be cleaned up.

Sunbird Portable 0.2 Revision 5 Pre-Release - Testers Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 28, 2006 - 11:11pm

As promised, I've posted a test version of Sunbird Portable. This updates the launcher to add in all the handy new features within Firefox Portable. It also marks the debut of the new name: Mozilla Sunbird - Portable Edition (aka Sunbird Portable). New in this version:

In-Place Upgrades - Sunbird Portable now supports the ability to do what I'm calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of Sunbird Portable without losing any of your existing data and it'll Just Work (tm). This will apply to future releases as you can't do it to an old Portable Sunbird release due to the name change.

Firefox Portable 1.5.0.5 Pre-Release - Testers Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 26, 2006 - 6:51pm

I've posted a pre-release of 1.5.0.5 for testing. This includes all of the new features and fixes present in the 1.5.0.4 Pre-Release with the updated 1.2.0.2 launcher (read for full details) as well as a couple bug fixes:
- Bug Fixed: "copy file failed" issue if run for the first time in Windows 95
- Bug Fixed: Blank profile used if run for the first time within Wine

This also debuts what will be the new name of the application: Mozilla Firefox - Portable Edition... or... Firefox Portable for short. This new name has been approved by Mozilla to be the name of the product going forward. It's designed to indicate that it is an unaltered, official copy of Mozilla Firefox, but that there are additions to it made by PortableApps.com to make it portable.

Portable Firefox 1.5.0.4 PreRelease - Testers Urgently Needed

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Submitted by John T. Haller on July 13, 2006 - 1:51pm

Ok guys... it looks like the trademark issues may be finally ironed out and I can get a new release of Portable Firefox out the door. I've posted a pre-release of the 1.5.0.4 release and there are a bunch of new things to test. Here are the fixes and new features to check out:

In-Place Upgrades - Portable Firefox now supports the ability to do what I'm calling an "in-place upgrade". This means that you can extract it right over an existing installation of Portable Firefox without losing any of your existing data and it'll Just Work (tm). You'll need an install of Portable Firefox supporting the split App/Data directories so PFF 1.5.0.2 or PFF 1.5.0.3 will work fine.

Portable Frozen Bubble Win32

Submitted by jrwr on June 24, 2006 - 10:17pm

I found a Win32 Port of Frozen bubble! so i got the dlls and exe's compressed and wow! it runs great off a 1.1USB drive its only some 14megs in total and its hours of fun!

Download here: http://woodysroom.com/PortableFrozenBubble.zip
Website: http://www.frozen-bubble.org/
Compiled Perl Form of FB: http://sourceforge.net/projects/fbe-win32/

All i reall did is put the dlls in there and also compessed them with the following " --best --compress-icons=0 --nrv2d --crp-ms=999999 -k " (got that off the Openoffice.org project) also non-working is the fullscreen its a bug that i am going fix so

Portable Spybot-S&D

Submitted by firemaker103 on June 10, 2006 - 2:13pm

After seeing a post in this forum of another portable spy bot cleaner and people where suspicious, I went on to make my own. This time it's Spybot-S&D! Smile
Link(RAR SFX):

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Portable FileZilla 2.2.24a Pre-Release

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Submitted by John T. Haller on June 7, 2006 - 3:37pm

I've posted a quick pre-release of the upcoming version of Portable FileZilla. It adds in the an automatic backup-restore to ease upgrades. It also allows you to unzip Portable FileZilla directly over an existing installation. Please give it a try... specifically, testing that filezilla.xml is created from one of the backups in the settings directory if it doesn't exist... and that it is created from filezilla.xml.default if no backups exist.

Any comments or questions can be dropped right in this thread.

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