General Discussion

Some apps run quite slowly off USB drives, Firefox being a notable example that I use a lot. What I normally do is copy the app to the desktop of the machine I am using, run it and then copy it back to the USB drive when finished.

That way it runs at normal speed, and with Firefox you can even have a disk cache if you set it to clear on exit.

John,

While the PortableApps.com Development Tests page is very useful, Zach Huddock has been having less spare time, and now does not seem to be updating the page at all (other than for Songbird?). I am willing to work on this page to try and keep it up to date with any new programs/releases.

If you think that I would be useful with that, please give me access to change it and I will then feed through all the comments that have stacked up, and then continue to maintain it.

Hi to everybody,

just by accident i came across this great but small utility: a Wiki in the jar! Uuups not: Whiskey in the Jar ! can be found at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wiki-in-a-jar/. Maybe someone might find it useful to easily create a personal wiki, portable on a USB Stick!

I recently lost a flash drive....and after the fact remembered a thread somewhere that detailed at least one method to have a message appear on the screen when something like pstart ran.

My search skills are pretty bad....so I have yet to find it. If someone can point me to a way to do that, I'd really appreciate it.

thanks

Thom

Need a portable application for Foreign Vocabulary training.

Does anyone have a suggestion?

Regards, Michael Danielsson

Obviously somebody else has noticed this as well (I've been here all day), drupal's tracker is out of whack today. In the OT forum, at this time, I'm the last person who posted, but no matter how many refreshes, PTMB's post is marked new and my reply to it is not.
I can only guess that it's either something at rackspace, or something with Drupal.
Hm... RackSpace or Drupal...
Does anyone have an idea of what's going on????

Well I just started to try to compile The portable Apps Menu source codes, and realized that the Main Suite (Menu & Backup) is programmed in Borland Delphi, and even that we can find a "lite delphi flavor" for free use (like Turbo Delphi).

It is not OPEN SOURCE. And that focus the app to just windows too.

My opinion is: to develop the PortableApps Menu program in an OS (Open Source) Languaje to "make it a TRULY OS sofware".

I assume this was asked before, I hope though I will be forgiven for asking again.

What is actually done to the relevant programs in order to allow them to run of a USB stick?

I am only asking since my instructor wants to run a questionnaire program from a stick in order to save him carrying the laptop about.

Cheers DF

I've just heard via the chat room that we're splitting the room into two: #portableapps for development chat and #portableapps-support for support. I've discussed this with John before and thought I'd spill my thoughts here.

This is the wrong way to do it. #portableapps should be for support and #portableapps-dev should be for development. Why?

I put portableapps on my flash key but sometimes I need them on my desktop or laptop. I have installed and used this way for a year with no problems. Apparently, it leaves nothing in the registry? Why don't more MS programs work that way?

Is there any danger putting a portable app on a computer?