General Discussion

OK, I know this can be done but HOW????

Background:

I had a U3 4g chip for two years and loved it, most of the time. Best part was that I could password protect it. OK, I know that it is perhaps possible to crack that, but for 99.99 percent of people who found it that would not be a worry.

Unfortunatly it got zapped and as I needed a bigger drive anyway I got a nice new 8g chip. Unfortunatly I could not find a U3 one. Hence I have come over to the portable apps side of things, and quite like it, especially the openness of it.

Okay so I was surfing the net the other day and I came across something called Creedo. Its kind of like the portableapps menu but it has a really big difference. Its like it was built around sandboxies source or something, because inside its folder it has another folder set up like the average C drive (program files, etc.), but the really cool part is that you can install non portable applications with it, and their reg settings are redirected into the portable registry. Then when you run the program, it comes up with a colored border, and pound symbols before and after the name.

If a program is released under GPL, can the owner be charging for it or give you a limited-time trial of the program? Further more, can this program be hosted in sourceforge?

I am currently looking for some desktop calendar which seams well into the desktop (you may call it "widget", looks like http://markpasc.org/lj/200507/ywidg_calendar.png). Similar to stickies (very good portable notes software).

Important features for me:
- I don`t care at all if it`s stealth, but it must be portable in sense it stores all private data in program folder.
- Store data after being typed automatically (in case of shut down or windows crash not data shall be unsaved).

What do you think would be on the new U3 platform? Maybe some of their ideas will get some more inspiration here.

I'll be merging this into the official Forum Guidelines once we've sorted everything out.

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Before you post, have you...

1. ...searched for the application you are requesting?
2. ...checked to make sure the application's license (such as GNU GPL) is listed on the open source licenses list?
3. ...checked to make sure the application is available to all users for free?

Hi All-

I have an EEE PC which only has 4gb drive and I have an 8gb sd card where I have portable apps suite on. I only had 1gb left on my pcs drive and after i tried to backup my portable apps from the sd card to my pc first then i tried to a network drive I only have 100 mb left and the crazy thing is the backup failed to complete twice and I dont know how to get the 1gb space back on my pc that the portable apps backup took away. I looked in the backup folder but nothing is in there. where could this huge file be?

Please help!

THANKS!

Hopefully I am not rehashing something but i did do a few forum searches on this already...

Which protables apps are actually faster U3 or PA...

And, I took the PA version of firefox and put it thru package factory then installed it on U3 because I did not want to lose all the bookmarks and settings I already had on my PA firefox, but wanted to see how this would work...problem is I can't tell at this point if its faster or slower, but it does work.

What could be the ramifications of this?

I was re-installing my entire USB drive with newer version of all the Apps software.
I installed the PortableApps.com_Platform_Setup_1.1_Beta_4.exe
file and keep getting the Autorun.inf file as having the INF/Rustank.A worm.

I am using ETrust AV 7.1.501

Is there a virus in the installer? Or might this be a False positive?

well, i feel like a nub asking this. but i cant get anything that requires the internet to connect. the programs launch fine, but are unable to connect, firefox, thunderbird, gaim, pidgin, miranda, none of them work. i turned off my firewall but that didnt help. all apps on my hdd work fine. suggestions are much appreciated.