General Discussion

Hey to everyone, this is my first post here.

First of all, thanks to whole open source community for making great apps, and thanks to everyone here who made the same apps portable.

Second, how about making some kind of protection for portable apps?
Althrought you can have clamwin on your USB drive, it's dumb to scan every PC in wich you plug your USB drive. How about some kind of locking of portable apps on your USB, so infected computers can't infect your portable apps when you run them.

I just happened to check the site tonite, and to my surprise found the new suite and a bunch of updated programs..
Is there a problem with the newsletter, or have you just been to busy send anything out?
Anyway, I would definitely appreciate the newsletters being sent or some kind of new software update notification. Thanks.

John, just to clarify, is the PAF format just the normal PortableApps style directories and the extractor?
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I may be dreaming and certainly don't have the expertise to create such a program, however ...

Would it be possible for a stand-alone application to create a virtual drive on the fly (like truecrypt, etc.) which instead of using space on a physical drive, used ram?

Issues I can forsee ...
* Would probably require administrative rights (like truecrypt).
* OS could chose to write some of the info to disk in a swapfile.

Have you considered offering USB flash drives ready-loaded with the new PortableApps Suite(TM)?

I think that would be really cool and a great promotion. I would love to own one. I would also buy them as presents for my friends.

For an initial investment you could derive income to help support the project. You could offer these from this site, and also from sites such as cheaplinux.co.uk and Amazon.

They would also make great promotional giveaways if jointly branded by a suitable sponsor.

I would go for 1GB, FAT partitioned with plenty of space for user files and extra apps. Packaged with a glossy, one app-per-page leaflet for added acceptability.

How would one disable security on a drive? convert /NoSecurity does this when converting a drive to NTFS, but on a drive that is already formatted with NTFS, is it possible to disable security without risking data loss?

(I'm on a comp with only Guest permissions right now, so I can't try anything)

edit: after further thought, I realize this is probably quite easily done without convert, and done through a Windows utility, but I still don't know to do it.

Hi

Xming works nice as a Xserver.
I was myself looking for an portable Xserver.
What I did is installed Xming with fonts on my PC and then copied the run directory to another pc ( on MY USB drive ) and ran xming

IT was great no errors ( till now )
It is small as 10 Mb ( default fonts ) and 30 Mb with fonts

Hope this info helps someone

bye
Amit Jain

Hello @all!

I'm interested in what apps are currently working on! What will be the next protapps? And when will it come out? Anyway gratulations for the suite!

hello everyone!

i have a problem with sage extension for firefox 2.0 portable. every time i run ffp the feeds in sage automatically update. in sage preferences i removed this option. and also noticed that it uses the enitre ffp cache. i also removed the ffp's "clear cache on exit" function - in order to let sage save the feeds content (in order to be able to read them offline) - but unfortunately no chanegs. i have no ideas what to do. also observed several forums but found nothing. pls help me.

I'm so pleased with what portaableapps is doing that I'd like to put one of PortableApps' nifty red GIF buttons on my web site to link back to www.portableapps.com as free promo. You know, like all the "powered by" promo buttons people use for HTML editors or web hosters. I can handle the HTML code, but might as well offer a cut-n-paste example anyway.

For now I'll snarf the "/files/images/homepage/portableapps_homepage_cr-06.gif" image, but it would be nice to have a slightly smaller one which is a bit more aimed at people who have never seen portable apps or heard of the concept.

I like the "Your Digital Life, Anywhere"(TM) - it would make a nice promo button.