General Discussion

I want to use the Personal Site Blocker feature for searches at google.com.
I don't install Google products on computers because of the updaters installed,
the data reporting to Google, and because it is an online installer only.

So - having a portable Chrome that was securely sandboxed on a USB stick seemed like
an elegant solution.

However - while the extension installs it is only an emphemeral install.

Once you unmount the USB stick the extension will not be there when you
remount and open Chrome.

I'm sure I'm late to the game, but there's a site out there that looks suspiciously familiar to me. Won't link it, but it's only one letter difference from PortableApps and the logos look awfully similar.

Is there anything that can be done about that? I hate the idea of someone looking for this site and hitting that one instead.

About a year ago, I bought a SanDisk Cruzer. The first thing I did was format it and remove the U3 software and replace it with PA. This morning I read an article about how great U3 is so I re-installed it on my drive out of curiosity. That lasted all of 30 minutes (mostly because U3 is so slow that I couldn't remove it faster).

I've ran the removal tool and reformatted my drive...twice. But I still feel a little dirty. My PA is restoring right now, maybe I'll feel better once it's all back.

I just found out about this: http://www.virustotal.com/advanced.html#browser-addons

Its a firefox/chrome addon where you can scan files you want to download before you do. Seems pretty handy to me.

For more info: visit this.

If the new layout is here, I think it would be cool to have a page about viruses, false positives etc.

A few days ago I found out about portable browsers. I have several external hard drives along with portable drives along with flash drives and sd cards. Anyway I like using different browsers so I downloaded several portable browsers on my external drive,one of my flash drives, and a sd card. I am wondering can someone make or are there programs to create seperate profiles for the following browsers. Google Chrome, Opera, and Flock. I already have the one for firefox and it works good. Any help would be appreciated and thanks for providing these portable browsers.

Hello all,

I got this laptop from work and I need to keep in touch with my folks at home - we always used skype.

The only computer I will have for the next couple of months is the one form work which has a antivirus/policies that don't permit me to instlla/run skype.

I've tried to make a stick with skype on a different computer with skype on it, but when I plug it in and start it I just get an error (I think it is the antivirus who does that ...)

Is there any way to make it work ? - did somebody come across similar problems?

Thanks!

Would be nice I think to try some proxy handling at the "local" level.

It seems that the extra QC applied here really makes a difference (except for Opera of course

Will the updater have options to download before installing?

Just a question about flash drives. I love using these portable apps, but a few of the heftier ones--namely OOo--run unacceptably slow on my flash drive. Is there a way to speed them up? Or is there a recommended kind of USB drive that will work best? Thanks in advance for your answers.

PS--thanks a ton to the developers who make these available at no charge to me.

I'm looking for a freeware or open source screen protractor to use with my image editing programs, in the net I only found an application here http://www.iconico.com/protractor/ but that is a forensic tool and I want something simple just to count angles and nothing more any help will be appreciated.