General Discussion

it is now coming up on 10 minutes to install PortableApps. is this normal?

Well hello everyone... or rather goodbye everyone!

My situation is as follows: our family is going overseas for three months on mission work. We leave on the 17th of November (next Monday, early) for Sri Lanka, where we are due to stay for one month. Then India, in Hyderabad for 2 weeks, then Kolkata (formerly Calcutta :P) for a month and a half. We get back on the 17th of February 2009.

First of all I wanted to post a brief thank you to John and the team for a fantastic platform which has become invaluable since I started using it a few weeks ago.

I'm now a heavy user of the portable editions of XAMPP (with DTX), Firefox, Thunderbird, Pidgin, Skype (using the unofficial hack), KeePass and Filezilla, all on a 16Gb stick with regular backups to a server.

My TB 2.0.0.17 Portable has become crappy, and despite compacting folders, rebuild of .msf files etc., I loose a lot of new emails. Most of my new incoming mails are being merged into spam mails, so it has become increasingly messy and unsafe.

I urgently need an alternative, but there does not seem to be many portable alternatives. As I use several email accounts, and use it for business mails, I do not think Gmail could be an alternative either.

I have considered the option to downgrade to 1.5 in the hope that this might work better, but how do I do that in the portable version?

I'm working at the American Museum of Natural History and am wowed by a portable version of their universe atlas. it's in my suite now. kinda, Google earth for the galaxy.
-Dylan
http://www.haydenplanetarium.org/universe/download

hey guys

I want to change the name of the apps. Only the title that apears on menu.
I tried to change on the folder appinfo, file appinfo.ini -> Name=name i want, but didn't work ...

I hope you can help-me

Since now, thankyou

It says on their website that their product is portable. But my friends say that this isn't true. Does anyone know the true answer???

Does using portable apps require any particular specifications from a USB drive? Can anyone suggest one with solid performance at a reasonable price?

Greetings all and welcome to a long overdue PortableApps.com update. Much has been afoot over the last few months, so I thought it time to get things back up to date.

App Releases

When the latest version of The GIMP (2.6.2) became available I couldn't remember out what version I had installed on my USB stick. The splash screen for The GIMP doesn't say what version the loader is starting. To find out I have to go check the About The Gimp menu option. As it happened I had version 2.6.1 installed.

In fact none of the splash screen tell you what version is starting. Would be nice if all the splash screens included version information.

Later I noticed that the splash screen for Firefox says "Firefox.,". That don't look nice.