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Confession and Status Report

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on March 1, 2006 - 11:23am

I am not very good at writing long posts so I will keep this one short. It will consist of two parts, a confession (if you can call it that) and a status report.

The Confession

I'm 15 years old. Now this may not seem like a problem but some communities just don't like it so I thought I'd mention it before I become a bit of a 'feature' round here.

Status Report

Here we go on the status report

Program Name - Version - Features - Date

Profile Sync - 1.2 - Adds cache options - Next two weeks
PortaLog - 2.0 - Adds email facility - Next month or so (whenever nm35 can help)
Portable Firefox with Sync - 1.0 - Complete re-design - Next week

Major Problems

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 28, 2006 - 4:06am

Hello,

First of all i like all the programs and would like to use them, but i am constantly having problem with starting them up. They are totally not working for me @ my work and home. Always when i start up i get the following popup:

http://members.home.nl/r0bert/error.bmp

Sorry that the error is in dutch, but i couldn't get an error in english, i hope you know what it is, cause i really would like to use these programs.

Thank you in advance.

Robert.

WD: a "hand drive"

Submitted by allquixotic on February 27, 2006 - 9:48am

These devices are getting to be affordable, small, and high capacity:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=199

I own one of these and I love it. It really is as small as it looks, and it keeps well in a small pouch in my backpack. I bought it from the WD Store but I'm sure you could find it 40% off at some discount store online (although if it breaks, good luck getting any help from them.)

For comparison, it's about two thumb drives thick and one and a half thumb drives long. Depends on the size of your thumb drive of course. I haven't (intentionally or accidentally) given it a physical beating to test its ruggedness, since it is an actual hard drive and not a stick of flash RAM...

MPUI + MPlayer. Portable and 'better' than VLC.

Submitted by DigeratiPrime on February 26, 2006 - 11:45pm

I just want to reccomend this app. Its fully portable, only 2 files, about 3mb total, and plays more or less what vlc does and does a better job imo. MPUI is the 'mpc' like frontend for mplayer. I reccomend playing files by just dragging them on MPUI.exe or on the open window. Try it Smile

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php

Games

Submitted by darknight670 on February 26, 2006 - 12:35pm

Is it possible to put games on a USB flash drive?
I was thinking about Wesnoth, Civilisation or an old Age of Empire.
If yes did I need to modify it or just install and deplace?

[GUIDE] Portable Firewall - Winpooch (free/opensource) (400kb)

Submitted by DigeratiPrime on February 25, 2006 - 4:47pm

hey guys i know some people were interested in small and portable firewall, and i think ive found the answer. Winpooch is Free and OpenSource and can be configured as a firewall. I have posted a guide to Neowin and Msfn that shows how to block everything from connecting/listening to the internet and how to add firefox as an exception.

view it here:
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=436364

Today's Outtage (404 Errors)

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on February 24, 2006 - 11:26pm

My apologies for the recent outtage. It seems my webhost accidentally deleted a configuration file sometime after 8:30am today that made most of the site inaccessible. (404 errors) I was at the hospital all day and was not aware of it until 11pm tonight when I fixed the error.

Regards,
John

Developers IRC?

Submitted by Thox on February 24, 2006 - 6:47am

Any developers available on IRC or similar to discuss NSIS scripting for portable apps? The main topics I'd like to discuss are RegRapper progress and the %USERPROFILE% environment variable.

I'm sitting in #portableapps on irc.freenode.net if is available. Perhaps an official channel would be helpful?

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