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Testing of beta versions of apps before public release.

Portable GIMP 2.2.10 Beta 1 Quick Test

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Submitted by John T. Haller on April 6, 2006 - 9:47pm

I need a few people to test out a test version of Portable GIMP before release tomorrow. Please don't blog this or mention outside the site as there may be bugs and this may not be the final version of Portable GIMP that is released tomorrow. It uses a couple new methods I came up with just for this app. Smile

It's an English-only release (I'll be doing multilingual as well). It's an 11MB download and only 17.5MB installed.

Portable Launcher for Guild Wars

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 21, 2006 - 7:29pm

Recently I wrote a small utility which allows you to play a copy of Guild Wars which resides on a flash drive or portable harddrive. This means that you can take Guild Wars with you when you travel, and play it on any computer you encounter without installing it. Just plug your drive in, launch Portable GW, and go Charr hunting! It's open-source, and written in NSIS.

I'd appreciate it if some of you (who own Guild Wars) could download and test for me. I look forward to any feedback the community offers. T

RSSOwl - RSS Reader

Submitted by Slythfox on March 20, 2006 - 8:32pm

After creating a portable Scribus based on someone else's code, I decided to try creating a portable app myself, doing the launcher coding myself. (I code with Autoit rather than NSIS)

RSSOwl is an open source RSS Reader. Even though they provide a non-installer download, it still saves profile files on the computer itself. So, I've put together RSSOwl so that it does not do this.

You can download it here:
.Zip, about 5.3MB

Tell me what you think. Tell me if you encounter any problems.

Beta testers requires, apply within.

Submitted by MatYadabyte on March 16, 2006 - 3:43pm

Hi

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Hi Portable Apsters, we are working on a new range of simple open source portable apps and would like some beta testers. Ideally you should use your portables from both a USB key and your hard drive, but this isn’t essential.

We have released one already and will have 2 more next week.

People who haven’t beta tested before are especially welcome:)

Thanks very much,

Mat Ripley
Yadabyte.com

Portable network killer application for windows and linux awaits you

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 10, 2006 - 5:32am

The QSClient is a system-independent client application to access over 25 internet-services.

It´s currently available for windows and unix systems and fits perfectly into the desktop or shell environment.

If you want to know more, just look at this side: http://www.fenner.info/clients/docs/index.html

all important and uptodate information will be located there.

Pleas download from:

Portable Thunderbird

Submitted by CapnChkn on February 22, 2006 - 6:08am

I didn't see an open topic for the Beta Testing of this app.

I usually have to send system information, and have all the goodies right here. The program I used to get all the information on my system can be found at this URL:

http://www3.sympatico.ca/gtopala/about_siw.html

I have my system information posted at this URL:

http://www.freewebtown.com/capnchkn/stuff/sysinfo.html (464 KB)

I find that Portable Thunderbird won't save in the drafts file twice in a row. I usually use a lot of graphics and formatting for stationery. I also find the program changing the word file:/// to mailbox:/// in the source. I used to have problems with running the program on the computer described in the system information page, but the upgrade from ver. 1.0.7 to 1.5 did the trick.

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