General Discussion

I don't know if any of you have tried www.youos.com but its pretty awesome. Its a prototype operating system in your browser. Works in Firefox, IE, XP, Mac Ubuntu.... oh the power of Ajax. Youos is an operating system, complete with installable applications, folder structure, messaging, document management.... in theory everything XP, MAC or Ubuntu can do.

And then there are alternatives like the mythically amazing looking Foldera and Eyeos.net

And then there are the stand alone webapps like Writeley, Gmail, Google spreadsheets.... you can even get webabbs that are starting to mimic Photoshop, Viseo and Powepoint...

http://thinstall.com/products/virtualization_suite.php

is there anything similar to the software mentioned in the above link? this app would end all our portable problems. hope there is a personal edition for free.

Ok, I am super new at this, although ive been reading and searching the forums. Forgive me if this is in the wrong place. I just started playing with portable apps, and I love the idea of having firefox and other apps I use with me at work. I had an idea though. If I installed DSL Linux on a USB drive, and ran it on my work computer, do you think that it would detect the network connection and allow unrestricted access to the net? Let me say that I am not trying to look at anything illegal, or against company policy or anything like that. I just want to know if I can have it work like at home. Many forums and such are blocked en mass by the server, and ive even talked to the IT guy who unblocks them for me, but I hate bugging him all the time.

I'm currently using a 256MB Cruzer Micro, which I picked up because it was only 15 CAD at Staples. I'd like to buy one that's a couple GB in size. I notice that some of the apps lag a little when running from the drive, and not when running from my hard drive, and I assume this has to do with the read/write speed of the device.

So, does anyone have any recommendations for a fairly large, fast and reliable USB flash drive?

Thanks.

Is there anyportable apps that are for mac?

I had a great idea, but I'm sure it could work with speed issues. PFx and PTB have many small (less than 4kB) files, which each have their own equal space in memory (4kB). This results in a lot of disk space being used for a relatively small amount of data.
I checked the size of my PortableFirefox folder:
Size: 71.4 MB (74,911,538 bytes)
Size on disk: 82.1 MB (86,147,072 bytes)
(35MB cache limit)
More than 10MB wasted.
If the folder were inside a tarball, size on disk would probably be not much more than 75,000,000 bytes.
I'm just not sure how much speed would be lost editing a tarball

Hi, can someone explain how this works?

i've been looking at various "portable" software titles and i have been checking the registry to see if anything gets written.

Then I stumbled across MUICache, and I see in there everything.

for example:
D:\System Core Files\USB Key Files\USB Apps\PStart\PStart.exe
D:\System Core Files\USB Key Files\USB Apps\PortableOpenOffice\PortableOpenOfficeWriter.exe
and so on, now, does this stuff disappear after a reboot, or is it there forever, because that worries me in that anyone (who knows what they are doing) can see exactly what's been installed/run? on this PC, despite my wanting to make it portable and thus untraceable.

Hi there,

I would really appreciate it if someone could direct me in the right direction.

I have just bought myself a 1GB USB drive and have downloaded PortableMozilla and Filezilla. I save my web site username and password in Mozilla as well as username and passwords in Filezilla.

What is the best way to protect this information on the drive, because right now if someone had to pick up my USB drive they could have access to all my information. I have seen file encryption software, but I don't want to encrypt and decrypt everytime I use my USB drive.

The ideal situation for me would be to plug in my USB drive, enter a password, which would then give me access to everything on the drive until I unplug.

I just realized I hadn't offered up a commentary thread on the Forum Guidelines after I had updated them last month. As the site has gotten more popular, there have been a few more advertising-type postings popping up here and there. The Forum Guidelines are an attempt to keep the forums friendly, personal, and ad-free... while still allowing commercial entities to respond to postings specifically about their products and entities releasing open source programs to make a product release announcement or two a month.

I know that people are working on a portable Hamachi (as a search of the forums indicates) but I have question:

Are there any portable hamachi-style application that is already out there?

I'm not a programmer and can't take Hamachi and recode it to run off my usb thumbdrive.

Just wondering,
Greg