General Discussion

Hey,

Hmmmm.... should this go here, or under Request App. Well here for now...

NirSoft (http://www.nirsoft.net/) - creator of roughly 85 utilities, all of which are portable! - maintains PAD files for each utility.

PAD files are "Portable Application Description" XML files which contain all the info about a portable application. They are especially useful when trying to keep applications up to date automatically.

The PAD file specification is maintained by the Association of Shareware Professionals, and info on it can be found here: http://www.asp-shareware.org/pad/

I'm working through a few possibilities for providing more details in the Download buttons on the app pages so that it's more obvious how much space the apps require. I'm thinking about making the version, language and size information two lines instead of one. So, instead of:

DOWNLOAD NOW
4.57, Windows, Multilingual 1.1MB

It would be:

DOWNLOAD NOW
4.57 for Windows, Multilingual
(1.1MB / 2.1MB installed)

You can see a test of the new format on the 7-Zip Portable page here:
https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable

HI, DOES SOME ONE KNOW IF THEIR IS A PORTABLE CAIN AND ABEL OR SOME PROGRAM TO GET PASSWORDS OF A PC AND A NETWORK WITHOUT HAVING TO INSTALL THE PROGRAM IN A COMPUTER.

THANKS
ATT.
PENTAGONFOX

I sometimes find I am in a place that has only Macintosh computers available for my use. Is there a way of creating a USB drive setup that has Mac portable versions of the programs I need and that keeps my files on that USB drive? Do such portable Mac versions even exist?

I can see me having both PC versions and Mac versions on the same USB flash drive. Thanks

Freeware's free. But I guess it's not like open source? You can edit open source program's code but for freeware, I assume you can distribute it as many times as you like if you don't change original program in any way, shape or code or form?

But if freeware could be made into portable apps? That'd be cool as there are many freeware rivals to programs requiring payment of some sort.....

How do you upload portable apps to your ipod and what folder?

I read that PA menu does not support transparent images (except for icons apparently) so the personal image cannot be GIF or PNG.

Has the issue been resolved yet?

If not, please check out http://pngdelphi.sourceforge.net/
A component for Delphi to use PNG images

Hopefully the new PAM (and the MOD's) will be able to offer support for transparent images. Looks much better, doesn't it?

If for some reason PNG is not wanted, maybe an ICO will do just fine

Hi all,
This is probably a silly question but is there any reason why I should'nt use Portable Apps on my laptop instead of using the full versions of the software ?
I ask because due to finances I could only afford a "Special Offer" laptop and consequently have a 40gb HD.
Ok, it's not that small but I do a lot of video etc, work and it soon gets clogged up so every saving of space I can make is important.
Thanks for a great product !
Regards,
Jon

This would ensure 2 things you can download portable apps and at the same time have an online account with all the applications hosted there so that you can manipulate all the files on your computer or on your flash drive using Online Apps version,no need to give space to store files,music,video and other stuff on the online version and only host the apps as online apps,is it possible...if so then in future the network become the computer and how about and I don't know this hosting portableapps as as online version on facebook using Facebook Platform so that maximum number of people can get

Using bootitng I moved the data partition that my portable apps are on, and the two installs of Win XP, to different positions on the hard drive (to make room to enlarge another partition). Now the apps will start ok from one of the XPs but not the other. They used to start fine from both. If I copy them to a 4th partition, they will run ok from it. I'd like to keep using the original one -- is there some way to fix this?