General Discussion

I need to convert a pdf to an excel .xls file. I tried Zamzar but it didn't convert it properly. It would be better if it integrates in MS office.

Hi everyone, as I am new to this, I am wondering if there is a portable app I can download that will mirror Microsoft Access. In other words, I would like to be able to develop a database with 2 or 3 tables and develop a front-end which would allow for the end-user to enter information via a form and run pre-designed reports that I would develop. I would like this to be done on a Flash Drive/Memory Stick.

Hopefully someone out there may know exactly where I need to go in order to get this software.

Thank you in advance for your time and assistance.

Hi,

I am looking for a portable antivirus programme that will run under UBUNTU.

I have looked at Clamav, but I am not sure if it is portable.

Any suggestions please.

Thanks

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John T. HallerI don't think we want to go the shovelware route for suites. Some of the illegal portable software sites have 200+ apps in them. But you're only going to use maybe 10 or 20 of them anyway. Random utilities you have no use for, 10 apps that do the exact same thing, etc. They're basically shovelware suites and they do that to force you to download all the apps so they can count that one download as 200 downloads.

This is a heads up for the PortableApps.com community.

We desire also to officially apologize to the PortableApps community, given that we used some of their powerful portable software without giving proper credit for their efforts. We are working to fix all issues, rehabilitating disabled splash screens and other minor inaccuracies, hoping to resolve these problems within the next Suite release. - http://www.lupopensuite.com/ (4-30-10)

Lupo has re-enabled the splash screens and placed the bookmarks back into Firefox Portable.

His suite is also going GPL and Open Source.

I've tried using Ketarin with limited success and also Update Notifier also with very limited success. I was wondering how everyone here keeps their favorite portable apps up to date on their thumb drives. I have resorted to just monitoring the RSS feeds until something better comes along.

Program: BitTorrent
License: "...open source licenses."
Site: http://www.bittorrent.com/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/bittorrent/

Free, open source file-sharing application effective for distributing very large software and media files.

Just FYI for anyone interested, as of 1.0.2, foobar2000 uses relative paths in its native playlist file for portable installs. IIRC, the use of absolute paths in the playlist was the only thing keeping it from being truly portable.

So after talking about nomination earlier it quickly became clear that actually before we could set a team up we needed to know what it was doing!

There are some initial thoughts here, and as the discussion moves on I will update this post. Some things to think about are:

• Shedule for clearing the backlog
• What actually needs to be tested
• How is the work going to be split up
• How much responsibility and power should the head have
• When is it right to move an app between stages

Please see this post for the latest discussion.

So, as mentioned in the latest status update the release team is rising, phoenix like, from the ashes of the last attempt.

This is the nomination thread, you may either nominate yourself or someone else, but that person must then confirm that they can make the time commitment needed to be part of the team and that they actually want to!

What is the release team?