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Shortcuts Script

Submitted by shawymonkey on April 14, 2009 - 9:34pm

I was playing around and I thought of a simple problem that I had, and it was that whenever my flash drive is not in my computer there are still the firefox icons that are associated with firefox portable. If I were to hit refresh on my desktop I would see an ugly icon and that bothered me a little. I created a little python script that I thought might be helpful to people. It tries to detect firefox portable and adds the shortcut in the quick launch and the desktop, but if it cannot find it, it will delete the shortcuts on the desktop and quick launch.

Files Read-Only

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Submitted by gibbylinks on April 13, 2009 - 5:44am

Hi All,

I'm having problems with my father's USB stick. I carried out a few updates for him yesterday, bringing everything up to date (App's Suite menu, Firefox, Thunderbird & Open Office). I then started Firefox to check his add-ons and update them when I hit a problem.

Foxmarks is refusing to update to Xmarks for me, and I've discovered that all the files and folders on the stick are marked "Read-Only". I've tried going to properties and unchecking the flag but it's just being ignored.

Can anyone give me some pointers. Thanks.

portableapps + XAMPP + tomcat = production application

Submitted by ghoz on April 10, 2009 - 9:04pm

Hi, I've got a web application using tomcat and mysql. I'm considering using portableapps to distribute the application to stand-a-lone users who
can run the application locally on their computers using a usb memory stick.
I've done some tests and it seems like working well with tomcat add-on and java set up.

I was wondering whether anyone has done something similar before and if someone can point me to examples of similar 'production' applications.
most appreciated,

GHOZ

Development Test Page

Submitted by Devo on April 9, 2009 - 12:00pm

I don't know if this is possible, but it would be nice if there was a way to sort by columns. That way the apps could be listed alphabetically, by category, author, or release date. Hopefully it's something minor that wouldn't be a problem to implement. If it is a hassle, don't worry about it.

It's my birthday! :D

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Submitted by David Dixon II on April 7, 2009 - 8:45am

*Wow did the forums get a change.... O.o*

Well anyways. Today is April 7th and i'd thought i might tell you all it's my birthday. Smile
I'm going to get my present in 3 days. Hopefully it's an iPod Touch (i hope it is cause my mom holds back gifts due to money... O.o)

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