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Site Backend Updated - Some Changes (Feb 7, 2007)

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 8, 2007 - 1:45am

Just wanted to post a quick note about a recent upgrade. As the techies here know, PortableApps.com uses the Drupal content management system to handle the site, forums and pretty much everything else. I've been working the past week and a half to test the various modules, update the custom PortableApps.com theme and test the overall system to ensure that the upgrade would go smoothly.

PortableFreeware.com Better?

Submitted by youknowme on February 7, 2007 - 8:35pm

Wondering why http://www.portablefreeware.com posts many more applications, frequently, than Portableapp.com? There are a lot of apps. that are indeed capable and under the license terms available to be made portable.

What I also noticed is there are developers here that have made applications portable, but not included in the Apps. list. Is it because they need to be verified by John first? Have the standard opening GUI applied? etc...?

The future of portable apps?

Submitted by pinksteady on February 7, 2007 - 1:52pm

Hi all,

I really like the idea of Portable Apps, and have been using Firefox and Thunderbird on my USB stick for a while now. However, I'm starting to think that this method of using external/additional hardware like USB sticks to run your applications is not the future of portable apps. As Google would probably tell you, hosted applications is the way forward, and I agree. I don't want to have to plug in my USB stick, along with all my keys that are attached to it, just to check my email, especially when I don't really want my boss to notice I'm doing it!

Antivirus False Positive (Comodo) - Feb 6, 2007

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Submitted by John T. Haller on February 6, 2007 - 2:08pm

Looks like we have a new false positive. It's Comodo again (it's had issues before). It's a false positive in every app it appears (it's finding a virus that didn't even exist at the time the files were posted). If you use Comodo, please post details of the file and virus and be sure to contact Comodo to inform them of their error.

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