General Discussion

Subject pretty much says it all. I was wondering what the general state of U3 is/was. It never really seemed to take off from what I could tell. The idea was a good one, the implementation was poor. Whenever I got a flash drive with it on, I uninstalled it immediately.

I'm wondering if PA.c has had a large impact (in a positive way) on the seemingly inevitable demise of U3.

I've just implemented the ability to subscribe to forum threads and stories so that you get email notifications of new content. We'll have this on as a trial to see how much of a load it places on the system. Please let me know if you have any issues with it.

Thanks!

Hi,

Is there any reason why you can't subscribe to a topic like in a normal forum?

Hi folks,

I installed TrueCrypt and Portable Apps on my USB stick. While this setup is working fine, there's a little drawback when it comes to restricted accounts in corporate networks, where you cannot execute TrueCrypt.

This brought me to the idea that it would be great to have a setup option, which splits the portable apps suite into apps and data, which contain sensitive data (like thunderbird, maybe firefox etc) and apps and data, which are securely usable everywhere.

Cheers
Vince

I'm looking for any opinions on this topic. I currently have a format that I use and always have a complete package of the the PortableApps Menu and all apps up to date. I was wondering what the thoughts would be on offering this as a link somewhere so as new individuals get involved in using the site, they can have kind of a one stop shop and download all current official applications. Also, it can be hosted wherever you wish. Just an idea, looking for opinions as to whether anyone feels a possible need for this. I would be willing to keep this updated daily.

Well, I went against John's advice and well, crashed google chrome (forced closed it with my fancy menu). And well, ever since then, its had a little memory problem. It doesn't remember anything I do. I mean all my most viewed pages had been reset and chrome never shows new ones on startup and it forgets all my settings that I change.

I was going to do a fresh install, but then I thought, will google still receive the stuff I type in the address bar? I mean I heard that google knows everything you look at through there web browser but can they see it now that its broken?

Lifehacker is doing a vote on the best portable app suites and we're happy to be in the lineup (thanks to our many awesome users who nominated us). And we'd love to have you show your support by voting for us in the poll!

Unfortunately, our competition contains illegal software (GPL, copyright, licensing, and trademark violations) and has stolen software from PortableApps.com (stripping off the GPL license, readme, source code, etc from our many portable application launchers and other open source utilities).

So please show your support for PortableApps.com by voting today:

"Online Installer: This is an online installer that will download additional files during setup."

Really not sure where to post this, so I hope it's okay to ask it here. I love having an official portable version of Skype but have a question. Why is the Extras option disabled? My daughter who lives 1700 miles away and I like to play some of the Skype games, and there are some extremely useful things such as collaboration tools, call recorders and avatar managers, for example. Is there a technical reason why extras wouldn't work with the portable version of Skype?

Straight from the author.

I emailed him a week or two ago about getting an official PAF version of XnView. There's the launcher, and then there's one made by somebody we collectively don't like. I basically covered all the high points of PAF/PortableApps.com, and just got a reply today. The topic title's the best part; the rest is "best regards".

So I don't know if he means he's already given permission, what with all the freeware... or if he's gonna do it himself. I'd rather the latter, then it wouldn't have to be a live installer.