General Discussion

These devices are getting to be affordable, small, and high capacity:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=199

I own one of these and I love it. It really is as small as it looks, and it keeps well in a small pouch in my backpack. I bought it from the WD Store but I'm sure you could find it 40% off at some discount store online (although if it breaks, good luck getting any help from them.)

For comparison, it's about two thumb drives thick and one and a half thumb drives long. Depends on the size of your thumb drive of course. I haven't (intentionally or accidentally) given it a physical beating to test its ruggedness, since it is an actual hard drive and not a stick of flash RAM...

I just want to reccomend this app. Its fully portable, only 2 files, about 3mb total, and plays more or less what vlc does and does a better job imo. MPUI is the 'mpc' like frontend for mplayer. I reccomend playing files by just dragging them on MPUI.exe or on the open window. Try it

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php

Is it possible to put games on a USB flash drive?
I was thinking about Wesnoth, Civilisation or an old Age of Empire.
If yes did I need to modify it or just install and deplace?

hey guys i know some people were interested in small and portable firewall, and i think ive found the answer. Winpooch is Free and OpenSource and can be configured as a firewall. I have posted a guide to Neowin and Msfn that shows how to block everything from connecting/listening to the internet and how to add firefox as an exception.

view it here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=436364

My apologies for the recent outtage. It seems my webhost accidentally deleted a configuration file sometime after 8:30am today that made most of the site inaccessible. (404 errors) I was at the hospital all day and was not aware of it until 11pm tonight when I fixed the error.

Regards,
John

Any developers available on IRC or similar to discuss NSIS scripting for portable apps? The main topics I'd like to discuss are RegRapper progress and the %USERPROFILE% environment variable.

I'm sitting in #portableapps on irc.freenode.net if is available. Perhaps an official channel would be helpful?

Hi!
I just found a page with nice cmdline tools for ejecting (RemoveDrive), changing driveletter (ReMount) and deleting mountoints (DelMountPoint).
I'm evaltuating them at the moment but it looks like something i've been looking for some time (cmd-line and fast!).

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

Boy, this autorun topic is full of conflicts, successes, and failures. I think I've read every post and thread on the subject. I couldn't get any of several prescribed autorun.inf to work on my 2K SP4 OS, and my trial Ceedo usually did but sometimes didn't. I want my 2gb Sandisk Mini to not only carry files, but assist me in my computer repair business. I wanted it to open to the Pstart menu.

I have a lot of clients still running 98, let alone 2K and XP. So, it was important to me that a solution would work cross OS. And we all know how 98 doesn't like mass storage devices.

A page on this forum linked to Torosoftware for their Auto Run USB program. It was pretty poor. However, when I later went to their home page instead of the link, I found out that the link was for version 1.0 and they are now at 3.0! I installed it and it worked great. Then I discovered the flaw........

Staples.com is selling the 1 GB Cruzer Micro for $35 after Mail In Rebate. U3 ready according to U3.com, and tiny as all get out for 1GB. Offer expires 2/25/06 so if you want one, get it now.

Just thought I'd let everyone know.

Just a note to all. I'm away for a few days due to an illness in the family. I will be posting infrequently (late night) and I was not able to do the 3 app releases I was hoping to do this week. I will get to them when I return.

UPDATE (Monday 2/27): I'll be returning on Wednesday and I'll post a note on status then. Thank you for the well-wishes.

Regards,
John