General Discussion

Just wondering if there are any portable Programing languages out there? I know there are windows versions of just about all open source languages. How hard would it be to make them portable? Would love to get my hands on a portable version of mono or ruby.

Hi,

I've been using portable apps at work quite a bit and I opened a few documents in notepad++ so anyway turns out that documents you open (documents on your usb key) with notepad++ apear in Windows' recently used documents list.

The question is, is that normal ( or desirable) behaviour? I was under the impression that portable apps didn't leave stuff on the host computer. Or is that just installation files and configuration settings?

Can I run portable apps on a Mac or is it pc only.

Can I download apps that were designed for the portable apps client and run them through my sandisk u3 smart

drive client or will I need to download portable apps.

I looked in the forums and all I kept getting was the background swapper.
Is there any way to switch the theme for the desktop like you switch the background?
I like the royale noir theme, but I don't want to go through the the trouble of switching it on every computer I use, obviously.
If this is possible lease tell me how.

Can a usb version be used on the harddrive.
Not a portable hard drive but the main hard drive.
Running portable firefox 3.04 with no problems.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Was wondering if anybody knew anything about this persons apps?

Are they portable?

Would they be something that could be posted here (though not open source)

Has anyone ever used them and is there any known issues with them?

http://www.roadkil.net/ is his website only posting the one link will remove if this is in violation of terms.

Thanks in advance guys!

Hi guys,

After much discussion and thought (yeah, right), I, with the help of a few others in the IRC chat room, have decided to create a mailing list to discussion sites with illegal portable apps and help to shut these sites down.

This is intended to be a collaboration between members of this site and others to stop these sites giving our sites a bad name. Users can get confused with these sites providing applications and the users are led to believe that this is legal and gives them false information.

For any users who would like to join us, we have set up a Google Group:

Email archiving has always been a major hassle, and recently there have been some high profile examples of why you shouldn't leave your email on the office computer.

On the home front, I was very pleased to finally get several years worth of old business email off my aging desktop, in the easiest way imaginable.

I wonder if there is any portable application for video chat? Yes, I know that there is no chance that Skype would ever be made portable. But probably there are any alternatives?