General Discussion

If a program is released under GPL, can the owner be charging for it or give you a limited-time trial of the program? Further more, can this program be hosted in sourceforge?

I am currently looking for some desktop calendar which seams well into the desktop (you may call it "widget", looks like http://markpasc.org/lj/200507/ywidg_calendar.png). Similar to stickies (very good portable notes software).

Important features for me:
- I don`t care at all if it`s stealth, but it must be portable in sense it stores all private data in program folder.
- Store data after being typed automatically (in case of shut down or windows crash not data shall be unsaved).

What do you think would be on the new U3 platform? Maybe some of their ideas will get some more inspiration here.

I'll be merging this into the official Forum Guidelines once we've sorted everything out.

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Before you post, have you...

1. ...searched for the application you are requesting?
2. ...checked to make sure the application's license (such as GNU GPL) is listed on the open source licenses list?
3. ...checked to make sure the application is available to all users for free?

Hi All-

I have an EEE PC which only has 4gb drive and I have an 8gb sd card where I have portable apps suite on. I only had 1gb left on my pcs drive and after i tried to backup my portable apps from the sd card to my pc first then i tried to a network drive I only have 100 mb left and the crazy thing is the backup failed to complete twice and I dont know how to get the 1gb space back on my pc that the portable apps backup took away. I looked in the backup folder but nothing is in there. where could this huge file be?

Please help!

THANKS!

Hopefully I am not rehashing something but i did do a few forum searches on this already...

Which protables apps are actually faster U3 or PA...

And, I took the PA version of firefox and put it thru package factory then installed it on U3 because I did not want to lose all the bookmarks and settings I already had on my PA firefox, but wanted to see how this would work...problem is I can't tell at this point if its faster or slower, but it does work.

What could be the ramifications of this?

I was re-installing my entire USB drive with newer version of all the Apps software.
I installed the PortableApps.com_Platform_Setup_1.1_Beta_4.exe
file and keep getting the Autorun.inf file as having the INF/Rustank.A worm.

I am using ETrust AV 7.1.501

Is there a virus in the installer? Or might this be a False positive?

well, i feel like a nub asking this. but i cant get anything that requires the internet to connect. the programs launch fine, but are unable to connect, firefox, thunderbird, gaim, pidgin, miranda, none of them work. i turned off my firewall but that didnt help. all apps on my hdd work fine. suggestions are much appreciated.

hey all
i have a problem on my with Thunderbird and firefox
when i have the setting set to runlocally=true it does not copy the settings back into my flash drive.
here is exactly what it is for firefox

[FirefoxPortable]
FirefoxDirectory=App\firefox
ProfileDirectory=Data\profile
SettingsDirectory=Data\settings
PluginsDirectory=Data\plugins
FirefoxExecutable=firefox.exe
AdditionalParameters=
LocalHomepage=
DisableSplashScreen=true
AllowMultipleInstances=false
DisableIntelligentStart=false
SkipChromeFix=false
SkipCompregFix=false
RunLocally=true

I appreciate all websites who support ssl.

When visiting https://www.portableapps.com/ with firefox there is a warning becuase the certificate is for portableapps.com without www.

Afaik (I may be wrong) the standard way to deal with the certificate is to create it for the www.site.

+ is there still no certificate authority who creates free certificates (and built into browser by standard)?