General Discussion

My dad took away the computer I put all my development stuff on (and put it in his room...), so I won't be able to work on anything until he gives it back (or leaves to work at CVS on Thursdays }:)). Sorry...
BTW, does anyone know why my SMPlayer launcher doesn't work on Vista? (It works fine on XP...).

Just a quick update so everyone is in the loop. We have several updates waiting in the wings including OpenOffice.org in all languages (big thanks to Marko), WinMerge (courtesy of Ryan), CoolPlayer+ (NeoRame) as well as ClamWin, Notepad++ and VirtualDub (me). But these are on hold until tomorrow afternoon as I put the finishing touches on Firefox 3.0.

Hi. I have written a little AutoIT Script to have the program RemoveDrive eject the drive safely, after closing the portable apps menu. There is a screenshot here.
I hope someone else can also find it useful, so I uploaded the zip file to megaupload.com. Just unzip it to your PortableApps driectory. Download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DT0UMMSB

Hello All,

Wondering if anyone was aware of a utility that allowed actual editing of the contents of a PDF file. I have already looked at PDFTK Builder and while a great app, it does not allow modification of text or graphics within the pdf file.

Suggestions appreciated!! Thanks!!

Does it make sense to have http://portableapps.com as a sticky link at the top of one of the feeds? I’m thinking feeds/general or feeds/apps, which I use in Firefox as Live Bookmarks.

A while ago I Partitioned my USB stick using some tool that was able to change some things on the USB stick. Using my Windows 2000 I needed to install some driver before those partitions were recognized by the system.

Today I plugged the USB stick into a Windows XP machine and to my amazement the USB stick showed up as 2 different drive letters in explorer. Great for those who like to partition their USB stick. I have tried it on an XP with SP2 and one with SP3.

Hi,
I want to restrict the access to my files on the USB stick to applications started from the stick. Background: In a internet cafe I don't want to expose my data to a utility on the computer copying my data from the stick. Even with an encrypted drive any application has access to my data as soon as I opened the drive. Any idea?

Joerg

This was posted before (https://portableapps.com/node/10981#comment-62631), but I think it may have been overlooked as it does not appear on the PortableApps.com In The News page.

Let me qualify my question, before the guffaws, begin.

While I have used computers since the late '80's I have never used portable apps or burned video files to cd or DVD. It is evident even to me the value they now express in our mobile lives.

I have an aging, partially blind mother and other friends that can only read with the aid of projectors/enlargers of books. They all have a love of reading and it is heart rending to see their loss.

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