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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Songbird Opinions

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Submitted by Darkbee on August 4, 2010 - 2:43pm

I'm just looking to poll the PA.c community in general on its opinions of SongBird(Portable). It seems that it's not winning fans as fast as I'm sure the developers of it would like. I see posts here for MediaMonkey, MusicBee and other iTunes alternatives, basically anything but SongBird! Everyone seems to be shying away from it, why is that? I have to confess I've only used it very briefly and I found it okay, comparable to iTunes although not nearly as polished.

very important problem settles when they begin using nomadic applications

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Submitted by Pascal Raymond on August 3, 2010 - 8:32am

Description des Assoc Dossiers principaux Assoc 'Key Files est un programme pour Windows qui permet de relier les types de fichiers à des applications d'une manière temporaire. Cela peut paraître une drôle d'idée comme ça, mais l'intérêt est évident si l' on s'imagine que les applications liées sont "portable" et sont sur une clé USB ...

Win 7 AutoPlay?

Submitted by Sekot on August 2, 2010 - 10:57pm

I'm sure this has been talked about and I searched the forums and found nothing but has anyone found a way to populate the Autoplay list in Windows 7 with the PA option? I don't mean run it just put it in the list?

Run Portable App from network share on Windows 7/Vista without static network drive

Submitted by mi6 on July 31, 2010 - 9:19am

Running a portable app from a network share (UNC, e.g. \\srv\...) and not a static mapped drive providing a drive letter (e.g. Z:\) can disable some funtionality on the app. I will explain how to solve this issue by using the example of FireFox portable.

For me, FireFox and Google Toolbar didn't work as I wanted: The search history was not saved nor was it enabled when running ff from a UNC (under Windows 7, but I guess this is valid for most Windows versions).

Remote Desktop Choices

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Submitted by Darkbee on July 29, 2010 - 10:40am

Being the tech support choice person in my family can be burdensome and so I'm contemplating having family members make use of some kind of remote desktop application. However, I'm wondering what my best choices are with a view to using open source and (where possible) portable software. I'm thinking of making use of some flavor of VNC however I'm wondering what the limitations are on the portable aspect of them. I'm guessing that admin rights are pretty much a must, and possibly "drivers" of some kind might be involved on the server side, so portability there is pretty much out.

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