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General discussions of portable apps and news.

Portable Apps menu organization

Submitted by smhasert on October 13, 2008 - 12:30pm

I apologize if this is already in discussion...and if it is, please direct me to the string.
First off, ya'll do a fantastic job of creating things that are perfect for the mobile/non-traditional 'office' worker.

Since I have been adding all kinds of valuable applications to my Portable Apps menu, the list is getting LONG. Is there a way (or an idea for development) to categorize. I've seen and downloaded the MiniLaunch bar, but it has the potential to get congested as well.

List of new and other existing portables on this site

Submitted by gris on October 12, 2008 - 5:15am

Besides the Home page that lists portable applications, it would be much more convenient to have another page that contains a list of all existing portables and each new application that is added to the list on a regular basis on PortableApps.com. Or I could be mistaken if the Home page list already contains all the applicactions available on this website.

WINE now supports gtk apps

Submitted by José Pedro Arvela on October 11, 2008 - 3:28pm

With the new WINE 1.1.6 out came a lot of bug fixes. One of them was bug 3915 that made gtk apps all black.

As this bug is fixed now, apps like Pidgin Portable and GIMP Portable, just to name a few, are now compatible with WINE.

Here is an image of Pidgin Portable running under WINE 1.1.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 (my machine):

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Outlook Express Portable

Submitted by getco on October 11, 2008 - 10:21am

Is there any way to make OE portable? Its mail database is portable in a way as you can setup the location; the address book is also in a single wab file if I remember correctly. But the mail rules and the accounts are all in the registry... I'm pretty wet behind the ears with all this stuff, but I've read somewhere that you can actually intercept the program when it's writing to the registry and write it to a set location. So is there a way that I could make Outlook Express portable for my own personal use? I've been using it for a decade and I still think it's the easiest tool out there.

Site Upgrade: Drupal 6.5 / Views Module 2.0-rc4

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 8, 2008 - 5:35pm

I've just finished an upgrade to Drupal 6.5 and the Views module update to 2.0-RC4. While I don't normally do updates like this mid-day, there were some critical security vulnerabilities I wanted to address as soon as the upgrade was posted.

All pages should be working again for logged in users (you may need to reload to get the current). Guest users (not logged in) may see placeholders until the next cached update (every 15 minutes).

Please let me know if anything looks out of sorts.

Thanks,
John

[FIXED] New ClearSpring Tracker on Forum pages?

Submitted by José Pedro Arvela on October 8, 2008 - 12:10pm

EDIT: It seems it was the social bookmarks widget used that added tracking without notice. John explains better further below on the comments and his article is here.

My Flashblock has found a new... code snippet on some of this site's pages. It shows a swf file from bin.clearsring.com on the site's header.

Here is a screenie:

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