General Discussion

I posted a basic NSIS template and a few commands on my latest blog post, if anyone would find that useful.

Cheers!
~nm35

Hey John,

Could you turn off the pngHack for IE? I'd rather be able to see grayish icons than none at all... The icons load, then vanish -- I think the pngHack is doing this.

Thanks.

~nm35

Hello,

I've been using portable apps for some time, and I do like the concept. But I won't recommend it to unexeprienced users. Sure, portable apps are easy to install and use, but they need just a few things.

1/ SYNCHRONISATION
Synch will allow you to copy your local firefox and thunderbird settings to portable firefox and thunderbird (firefow and thunderbird only - it's not really useful for other apps). So need to copy local firefox settings from some cryptic directory (C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.???\)
Right from the start you'll be able to use portable firefox and thunderbird with ALL your settings, extensions, bookmarks, emails.

I have just implemented Spamihilator (freeware @ www.spamihilator.com) on my USB drive.

This has been a been a lifesaver for me as I have found that plain old bayesian filters just don't do the job for me. This morning I had over 300 emails in my inbox. Spamihilator filtered all but 5 spams emails and let all 18 of the good ones through. Not having it on my USB drive was a real PITA.

Turns out all I had to do was copy the Spamihilator folder over to the USB drive and add a shortcut to PStart.

One already exists. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

I would like to know if there is a working portable OS out there. I have try so many times and none of them are portable on a usb drive. Or will not work away from the host computer. I know its hard to make thing portable. But at school and work I don't like carrying a labtop around if i dont need to. thank to portable apps my life got some what easyer to work with. becouse every were i go there is a computer i can use. If any knows of a working OS let me know plase. Or one i can bate test.

GeorgeNava has some really cool examples of what xul apps could look like any way it got me to wondering, does any one use any xul apps? Any apps that run straight from the browser? if so do tell!

Right now all i know of is TiddlyWiki an html wiki

No, this isn't another demand for instant updates by John, but more a friendly notice to the users here. Gaim 2.0.0 beta 3 is available, and is the first version which doesn't crash on any of my machines (GTK problems).

I've not been able to find a changelog from beta 2 to beta 3 (odd?). If anyone can let me know what's actually changed, that would be handy.

Oh, I like the new "psychic mode" plugin which sends you a message when someone is typing to you - before you've started your conversation: "You feel a disturbance in the for

Hello all,

I'm just wondering, is Audacity truly portable? They have a zipped distro of v1.2.4 for use in labs where you may not have Admin privlidges and can not use the installer, but does it leave reg entries? If so, is there any way to remove them?

I know a batch file could do it, but I have no idea where to begin. I'm just learning batch programming in college and we're nowhere near there yet (unfortunately, cuz I think the class is too darned slow, and am easily bored going over something a billion times).

I use it not-quite-often but somewhat, and it would be handy to have with me. If anyone uses it and knows, please reply.

As part of moving forward, I'm going to begin to add in some of the more-useful portable apps and utilities that are available. I'm planning on keeping a similar app description layout to the existing apps.

The first app I added in is XAMPP, which is a full portable server package (think Apache, mySQL, PHP, FileZilla FTP, mail and anything else you can think of), which I started playing with a little while back after seeing it recommended in a couple blog posts. I did the page layout similar to the other pages. What I'm wondering is... is there anything else someone new to an app might want to know directly on the main page? Is the layout easy to follow? Important info easy to find?