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Get permission to distribution for PortableApps

Submitted by macos2007 on January 18, 2007 - 11:30am

I am a Software Engineer. Recently, my company is planning to sell the mother boards and give our customers portable Apps.com software as free. Therefore, I would like to get the permission to modify the image, logo and icon, and only distributing the launchers. As its a legitimate business I work for, we don’t want to infringe on any copyrights or patents may have.

How to create a start .bat for portable Vidalia bundle?

Submitted by zikarus on January 18, 2007 - 8:40am

Have recently downloaded the Vidalia 0.10-bundle including Privoxy and Tor and followed the instructions to make it portable:

http://portablefreeware.com/?id=1088

Everything is working fine so far - BUT...

I do not seem to be able to create a working .bat file wchich should start Privoxy, Vidalia+Tor and the Portable Firefox at once altogether.

Any idea what exactly should be in such a .bat for a layout as the following:

X:\Apps\PortableFirefox\PortableFirefox.exe
\Privoxy\privoxy.exe
\Tor\tor.exe

Portable Python

Submitted by oyster on January 18, 2007 - 12:50am

http://www.portablepython.com/
currently, based on py25 on windows
Portable Python is a Python programming language preconfigured to run
directly from a portable device, enabling you to have, at any time, portable
programming environment. Just download and extract to your portable device and
in 10 minutes you are ready to create your next Python application.

Question regarding scan disk on (re)boot

Submitted by kissdznuts on January 17, 2007 - 1:04pm

When leaving my thumb drive in the USB slot while booting/rebooting, scan disk occurs.

This occurs when I leave my thumb drive in the port and simply reboot. Is there a way to prevent the scan disk from running every single time, when I know the volume was unloaded previously (without having to hit a button on every boot up)?

I know it's trivial, but it just annoys me.

Jon

Read-only applications?

Submitted by speedogoo on January 17, 2007 - 7:23am

I just read "Safe Portable App-ing", and the rules there are so cruel that I don't believe I can follow it strictly.

I appreciate your assertion that "Whenever you plug your portable drive into an unknown computer, you should assume that it may now be infected with a virus", but I cannot accept that I need to virus scanning my USB stick and keep those backups all the time.

Please consider GNUmed for inclusion into PApps family

Submitted by release_dude on January 16, 2007 - 5:08am

Hi there,

I am one of the maintainers of the open source medical record app GNUmed (wiki.gnumed.de). It's written in python and is portable. I made it run from an USB drive and have modified the official Abiword installer / launcher to include it into the portable apps launcher.

What is the policy to make it a member of the portableapps program family ? I mean for it to be possible/legal to use the portable apps splash screen like the ones for the programs on the website and maybe get a website like this https://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/7-zip_portable

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