General Discussion

Just a note informing the community that WikiHow.com, the how-to Wiki, has an article on PortableApps.com, in case anyone from here wants to represent the site.

Recently, I was presenting my collection of portable apps and other things and I was asked if they are also similar portable apps for MAC?

Well I have operated a mac abt twice in my life and have not much contact to any mac users, but are they any portable apps for mac or not?
Or do they have some feature like wine on linux to be able to run some of the apps anyway?

Sorry, but myself I have absolutely no clue about mac system, therefore the question here.

Hey all, I needed to address these 3 issues but I didn't want to spam the posts with 3 different threads so I just placed everything here. Mods feel free to move it if necessary.

Firstly, I would like to say that the works you all are doing is excellent. I have been a member of PA for 3 or so months and I am loving it! Congratulations John and you guys, keep up the great work!

Secondly, I am having a problem with Pidgin. I enabled the Transparency plugin, but Pidgin crashes every time I open a IM window with it enabled. Any help?

Am I right in thinking that a portable application is any application that does not write to the registry, and does not put icons on the desktop.

Thanks

I found this program called Portable USB WriteProtector and was wondering if anyone has heard of it before and if it might be worth running to help prevent my flash drive from being infected with malware, should I run it on a library or internet cafe computer etc.?

I found it at SoftPedia.com which scan all their files for viruses, but I also uploaded it to VirusTotal as well and not one AV there detected it as a virus.

Here the link at SoftPedia http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Security/Encrypting/Windo...

I was wondering if anyone knows of an open source equivalent to Visual Basic . I have taken a look at www.FreeBASIC.net but I was looking for something that is more object oriented programming. Mainly be cause I use Visual Studio at home so a relatively familiar interface would be nice.

A How to make skype portable.
basically full local install, copy prog files dir and add a bat file.

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/17/how-to-run-skype-from-a-usb-flas...

I've tried adding TweakUI to my PortableApps menu without any success. Can someone share with me the secret to getting the app to show up in the PortableApps menu? Right now I have TweakUI.exe in a directory in the PortableApps directory like all my other apps but for some reason, it will not show up even when I refresh the list. Any help is welcome. Thanks.

I'm fairly surprised this hasn't been implemented already (at least I couldn't find it on the website) and the forum search just showed up people asking about having a bittorrent client as part of the suite, so I decided to post this topic about having links to bittorrent downloads of the PortableApps software.

Found this through lifehacker, gave it a shot, and look, it's out Firefox (and looks like several others but I haven't checked them yet, and doubt that they're be illegal)

http://www.technibble.com/computer-repair-utility-kit/

Have fun, get the copyright police on them!