General Discussion

Here is an app that I've used for years on my desktops, that lends itself quite well to portability on USB drives.

It's the actual NIST Internet Time Service or NIST as commonly referred to. It's a single self executing file (exe), and I'm using it right now on my USB drive to accurately set the time on a PCs internal clock via any internet connection.

It's a handy little tool for use as part of any general tune-up on a friend or customer's PC.

The app can be downloaded from NIST Internet Time Service, at:
http://tf.nist.gov/service/its.htm

Which of these portable apps work on a read only media like CD-R or CD-RW? FireFox and probably OpenOffice are out, but do apps like Gaim and FileZilla work from a burnt CD, maybe saving temp files to RAM and then when the app is closed the files are deleted from RAM?

Will there be an language Pack for the Portable versions averiable?

As I've hinted at in-forum and told several people offline, the site has gotten far more popular and in a much shorter timeframe than expected... causing several performance issues with the current host. That's why it's been offline a couple times in the last week. And, that's actually one of the reasons you haven't seen releases of Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, ClamWin, GIMP, and why VLC and Miranda haven't been stuck on the main page. A single new release with a spike in traffic would kill the site/hosting account. That's also why setting up the more community-participation aspects of the site has been dragging.

Where did the portable apps RSS feed go? Have I misplaced it, or has it gone...

Mark

Win Rar portable is now available!

Details: http://www.win-rar.com/winrarforu3.html

Download: http://www.win-rar.com/index.php?id=324&dl=winrar_3.5.1.1.u3p

Compare to Win Zip: http://www.win-rar.com/winzipcomparison.html

I know that people are looking at portable java applications (which wouldn't interest me as I don't even have JRE installed), .net applications on the other hand do turn my head...

I develop .net applications (hey Rob Loach, I noticed you're signed up on here too... small portable world - Paul A), and I'm wondering what the general feeling is about them for being portable apps, as you would have to have the .net framework installed first before it can be used... but the same goes for JRE.

On a side note, I am making a retro start program. Think waaaay back in history. Before the introduction of Windows 95. Before the accursed Taskbar stole precious space off your 12" (or if you were lucky 14"!) monitor. Yes, I'm thinking back to windows 3.1... the PROGRAM MANAGER!

Here is a link to a Portable NSIS that I made with the help of Deuce (he eliminated that window size registry entry!!)(Thanks Deuce!!) You should also check out some of the other cool projects we have going on at PortaSoft
EDIT* (New link)

http://www.portasoft.org/e107/page.php?13

-Justin

Just a heads-up to everyone. I'm starting the localization project on Monday and if you're multilingual... we'll need your help. The apps themselves are available in multiple languages, but the launchers have been English-only up until this point. You don't normally see messages from the launchers, unless there's a problem (eg: Another instance of Firefox is running, please close...)

The way it will work is I'll be posting a series of strings (sentence or two each) that we'll need translated. Replies will be made with those strings translated into each language and we'll go from there.

I've just found something interesting.
A quick launcher less than 40k, portable and green of course.
It's called "floater".

The zip is 32k, and the main program is 40k only.
Unzip, put shortcuts in the items folder, and run.
Then a quick launcher with shortcuts in the items folder will appear at the left-bottom of your screen.
Except launching, you can only click the left border of it to minimize it.
Not even move it, too bad. >_