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Using a camera memory stick with portableapps in internet cafes

Submitted by JustinI on November 29, 2006 - 1:29pm

Morning folks. Fogive me if this has been asked before, I looked, didn't find.

I'm heading through Indonesia for a month and have a camera with a sony memory stick pro duo and a MS>USB adapter.

Can I (and would it be advisable) to use the same memory stick for my email/internet as for my camera? Will it increase the chances of corrupting pictures or infecting it with viruses. Will it decrease my chance of having some keylogger/spyware/virus on the obviously infected internet cafe computer from killing my photos or snooping my bank password if I need to use it? Any suggestions on what to do, where to look, ideas on how to go about this and/or make my life more safe and secure in general?

usb stick security?

Submitted by midlife_crisis on November 29, 2006 - 8:10am

I found out about this earlier this week and have jumped in with both feet and so far i like what i've seen, so much so I've ordered a 4gb usb stick for 1 of my colleges to use. But, i have a few questions.

I'm surprised there's no security options. From what i've been able to find it seems like there are a few app to secure files but i would like to secure the whole stick. Any ideas as to how i can.

Secondly, Opera-usb. I like opera and thought i'd give it a try and copied it to /PortableApps/opera902en, refreashed the app icons. The first thing i noticed was it included 2 icons. One for GSAR and another for Opera startup. Clicking on the opera start icon results in a command window that points to the usb stick drive letter and stops with "The same position, nothin to do" and an alert box saying it can't find op.com. Opera does work if i go to the disk and double click the operausb.exe

Offline Websites

Submitted by 77e77 on November 29, 2006 - 12:40am

Sometimes my internet goes down while im using it and then i have nothing to do

this could solve this issue

it would also be handy to see all ur favorite sites on a computer that might not have an internet connection

PortableApps Backup didn't do a full restore of my device

Submitted by evangineer on November 28, 2006 - 10:10pm

I have a device with a 30GB hard disk with about 20GB of stuff on it. I was doing some serious monkeying around with the device (a firmware upgrade), so I did the prudent thing of backing it up using PortableApps Backup to a zip file. This got everything AFAICT.

After problems with the firmware upgrade, I used PortableApps Backup to restore my files after deleting/recreating the partion and formatting it. I was somewhat dismayed to discover that only 13GB was restored. I noticed that particular folders were missing, so I used WinRAR to check the zip and those folders and their contents were present in the zip.

Gnome

Submitted by gjjh25 on November 28, 2006 - 3:54pm

I have just come accross this resource and all the available apps for it.

could someone tell me if the apps that are availble for gnome are portable too?

PortableApps vs U3

Submitted by REPL on November 27, 2006 - 6:59pm

English:

we are going to do a small one but good discussion, that you think on apps and the software of u3, tell me to that you go to him but, dame advantages and disadvantages. To my to seem they are better apps gratuitous, you you are left them by always, they are useful and if a small donation is born of heart beams to you, and are very small. U3 has few gratuitous applications, but the bad thing is that the best ones are single version of test, in addition I believe that the programs of u3 are almost such of apps, although has much variety. The bad thing is that no is almost compatible with memories standard. And your that you think?

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