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Merry Christmas

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Submitted by Kevin Porter on December 24, 2007 - 11:12am

As we are nearing Christmas, I just would like to take a moment and wish everyone a very merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year. I'm sure that as a Christmas gift for everyone, John will release the PortableApps.com Platform 1.1 Beta 5 and NeoRame will release a huge theme package, including an Ubuntu Human theme and a Christmas theme of some sort. Blum

Merry Christmas and happy New Year!

Kevin

Hardware too SLOW to run PortableApps

Submitted by tc_rob301 on December 22, 2007 - 10:25pm

I have been running many of the PortableApps on my USB thumbdrives for a few years now. I started with a USB 2.0 1GB unit... then went to a 2GB, and when I outgrew that one I went to a 4. Recently I thought I'd hit GOLD with a 16GB USB 2.0 thumb drive until I loaded all my Portable APPS and discovered how POOR it's performance was. It was so bad it took 3 minutes just to load PortableFirefox... browsing & opening tabs did more than try my patience. I ended up writing to the MFR (not an off-brand unit) and I have gone back to my almost-full 4GB Cruzer.

FreeRice

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Submitted by digitxp on December 22, 2007 - 8:30pm

My LA teacher showed me this last thursday! You get vocabulary, and you donate rice! All you do is answer the questions and the more questions you do, the more rice you donate. (You don't donate it yourself, but the ads do.)(I don't own the site!)
freerice.com

Sweet App - Startup Manager

Submitted by Patrick Patience on December 17, 2007 - 9:51pm

I just wanted to let everyone know of this sweet app I found listed on OpenSourceWindows.org. It's called Startup Manager, and it pulls processes & applications listed in your startup folder, registry, Window boot file, and puts it all into a nice user-friendly GUI. Within the GUI, you can delete processes that are scheduled to start when your computer starts, and add others. I personally love this, because I hate when apps decide they're gonna start when the computer starts, and then put that info in some hard to find place like the registry.

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