General Discussion

You guys have a great site going here...I will be sure to tell all my friends about it!

I know of many games that are already self-contained and portable, so is there any reason why they aren't on the site?

ZSNES is a portable SNES emulater.

Nexuiz is totally portable and its a great game. Open Arena is also portable. There are really a lot of available games that are portable. So, basically, I ask why they aren't on the site.

hi

I want to recommend this music creation tool.

MILKYTRACKER

www.milkytracker.net

Info:
Fasttracker2 clone. Tracker style program for create music. Built-in sampleeditor.
Sopports following module music formats:669, AMS, AMF, CBA, DIGI, DSM, FAR, GDM, IMF, MOD, MDL, MTM, MXM, OKT, PLM, PSM, PTM, S3M, STM, ULT, UNI and XM
Export to: XM, MOD and WAV formats

Check out the Beta Testing forum for Portable GIMP. Another new app will be ready to test tomorrow!

As Thox helpfully pointed out, it appears I originally had the code html tag set to display block and I had disabled pre (which should be used for long blocks of code). I've corrected the issue in the CSS and a couple posts. But if you have a post that you used code to display a block of code, you'll need to update it to pre. If there are other posts that need updating, post a link here and I'll fix em.

As an example... here's some code inline using the code tag so it sits mid-sentence. And here's a:

pre example
with different stuff on each line
20 goto 10

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In my faculty all computers are set as guests and have very little privilegies. Installation of programs is forbiden by administrator so portable applications come to the rescue. But Portable Firefox and Portable Gaim can`t access the internet (we have DSL)! Portable Opera works just fine but Firefox and Gaim can`t access to the internet. What can be the problem??? If Opera works why Firefox and Gaim can`t break through?

I posted a basic NSIS template and a few commands on my latest blog post, if anyone would find that useful.

Cheers!
~nm35

Hey John,

Could you turn off the pngHack for IE? I'd rather be able to see grayish icons than none at all... The icons load, then vanish -- I think the pngHack is doing this.

Thanks.

~nm35

Hello,

I've been using portable apps for some time, and I do like the concept. But I won't recommend it to unexeprienced users. Sure, portable apps are easy to install and use, but they need just a few things.

1/ SYNCHRONISATION
Synch will allow you to copy your local firefox and thunderbird settings to portable firefox and thunderbird (firefow and thunderbird only - it's not really useful for other apps). So need to copy local firefox settings from some cryptic directory (C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\)
Right from the start you'll be able to use portable firefox and thunderbird with ALL your settings, extensions, bookmarks, emails.

I have just implemented Spamihilator (freeware @ www.spamihilator.com) on my USB drive.

This has been a been a lifesaver for me as I have found that plain old bayesian filters just don't do the job for me. This morning I had over 300 emails in my inbox. Spamihilator filtered all but 5 spams emails and let all 18 of the good ones through. Not having it on my USB drive was a real PITA.

Turns out all I had to do was copy the Spamihilator folder over to the USB drive and add a shortcut to PStart.