General Discussion

So here is my thought....

They do Wine for windows and basically you can install applications into it. But if we could make wine portable then we could install apps into it and have even more portable apps!

I was wondering if it is ok to d an antivirus bootscan on a flash drive. thought this would be a good thing to ask others may be interested as well.

I have a 20gig flash memory external harddrive
and use the free Avast antivirus program (the free version has option to do boot scan)

Because today is thanksgiving, I believe that we should thank John Haller and all the other developers.

They all take the time to update the site and keep the apps up to date and keep brining in new apps.

If you don't have a turkey yet, here's one.

hi guys, its now soon one yeah i use PA

Its on a truecrypted partition on external hdd and works very well. I like to use my environment everywere (where i have admin rights for Truecrypt), and its less offensive and less work then make a linux boot from usb-stick on anothers pc.

go on devs its great work.

I hope OOo3 and TB3 will be implemented soon

Hello all,

After a very annoying day of searching for a portable CAD viewer I decided to create my own. The following are simple instructions on how to create the u3p file yourself since I have no site to host it on.

First download the LiteCAD zipfile from www.litecad.com.
Unzip the file into a directory and move the lcfont executable to the end of the directory

we are going to use packagefactory to create the u3p file and it will just grab the first executable in the directory for the u3p file

Download packagefactory from www.softpedia.com

Install it and run it.

Hi,

I just wanted to ask if there is a tool (preferable with PortalbeApps) with which I can keep & open some encrypted files on my Stick.

Thanks for any help,

Irwin

I wanted to use a couple of the U3 porable progams on my non U3 Smartdrive USB. I figured out a way to to it.

1. Download a U3 app from the SanDisk website.
2. Right click on the app an open it with WinRar.
3. WinRar will give you an error. Ignore it and you should still be able to view the files inside the U3 exe.
4. Now click on "Convert to SFX". You can use the default options and click on.
5. It will convert the U3 exe and the icon may change to a WinRar exe file.
6. Now right click the exe and extract the files.

As some of yyou may know we had a spammer come onto our channel last night on IRC and started well… spamming it. We quickly found out that this spammer also had an anonymizer so we could not ban him or even track which person it was when they entered into the channel. After 2-4 hours of work we finally got a solution that worked and were managed to bring the channel under control. Right now I want to point out some people that helped out a lot and that we should thank for of the help they gave.

Hello,

Is it possible to create files in portable apps to store its programs by categories portable?

Thx

I know the "Portable Apps for Linux" heat has kind of died down, but I'd like to say a few words why this isn't moving along.

On Windows, when you install a program, you get a folder with the program files, and possibly a few registry entries and configuration files (usually in the same folder as the program). Therefore, it is not too difficult to take the program (or make a launcher :), modify it so that it does not save registry entries, and publish that. All the necessary dependencies and outside functions are stored in the dll files found scattered all over a Windows install.