General Discussion

So it is looking more and more likely that I will be going to FOSDEM in February next year (6th – 7th), and I would love there to be a PortableApps.com presence. There are three ways in which we could do this:

1. A stand. This is the most difficult organisationally, but possibly the best way to spread the PA.com goodness. To do this we will need commitments from people that they can help man it and we will have to be able to cover the stand for the whole weekend

I'm thinking PortableApps is a good method for making an effective autorun solution for an MP3 CD. Would CoolPlayer be the best choice for this?

VLC is a pretty good media player, but takes too long to start up. Not sure about XMPlay, I wasn't using it (in favor of VLC, once I realized it played music too) so I took it off, but it was nice when I used it. Compact and it looked good. I've seen some nice skins for it, too.

Can the most recent update date be included with the name of each application, on the “Applications” page?

An update date would allow users to quickly determine whether or not a newer application version is available. Yes, I understand that an automatic updater is under development. However, I suspect that the update date could be added more quickly.

Is there going to be an Ubuntu on stick ?

I've tried a bunch.

Seems like the default NTFS format is best. I checked my speed with USBDeview
www.portablefreeware.com/?id=1004

Using a startech 8gb ($12), works ok, I got around 12 w / 18 r, though I know that is a simplistic measurement. What program was it that does the complex testing?

Also, does size matter? And, what is the best economy stick on the market now, as in around $1/GB to $2/GB.

I know consistency is an important consideration here, which is why I'm bring this up.

There is an issue with the way that some portableapps.com URLs resolve that probably came about from categorizing the applications.

For example, in the 7-ZipPortable help.html file, the URL for "Go to the 7-Zip Portable Homepage" is coded as "https://portableapps.com/7-ZipPortable" but quickly goes to "https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable".

This doesn't work correctly for other packages.

I run Firefox and Tbird off a thumb drive and recently I decided to encrypt in case I lost a drive.I installed TrueCrypt on a thumb and then installed Firefox and Tbird inside a file container, however the browser was so slow as to be nonusable. A friend at Mozzilazine suggested encrypting the profile alone, any opinions and/or suggestions.

Thanks

In the portableapps' page says that the installer is about 41Mb but when I try to download it, it's only 22.7Mb

This causes that this game cannot be installed

Please can the development team can check this.

Thx in advance

Hello everyone,

I am quite new to the portable apps platform. In fact I landed here while looking for a solution for installing a portable version of Visual Studio 2008. I am not even sure if this is possible, but it would be very helpful for me to have that.

Especially when I have to go to the customers with different machine setups and look at the problems they are encountering, I could use the portable VS to actually go through and debug the code on the clients machine itself.

What happened to these icons?
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/winmd5sum_small.png
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/spydllremover.png
https://portableapps.com/files/images/logos/virtual_magnifying_glass.png

Now think hard, are they pretty? No.
(Sorry if it sounded harsh, but it took a while to find them, and I have to get back to homework :P)