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Back to school

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on January 22, 2006 - 3:10am

Well tomorrow I head back to school armed with only my head... and of course my Portable Apps filled Usb.
Will use Pfx to convince teachers to switch
Just thought I`d say thanks
And John check out my topic on the beta testing forum
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R McCue

portables on linux - ?

Submitted by towsonu2003 on January 20, 2006 - 10:10pm

I am in love with your portable applications, especially firefox and openoffice. I keep unzipping them to computers where I'm not an administrator (ie school library computers). I love the fact that I can use openoffice in a university library that is in love with microsoft.

I was wondering whether you are planning to port them to linux. I would love to share the same firefox -themes, extensions, and bookmarks- (and use new openoffice without installation as my distro has the buggy beta) both in my desktop and laptop without screwing around.

thanks for the stuff. kicks a**!

PS. I found a couple of forum topics that suggest a portable linux (DSL) and one with no replies that asks the same thing.

Autorun

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on January 18, 2006 - 5:45am

now I know that its impossible to autorun off a usb
but can any programs do this?
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R McCue
@John please answer my post on the beta testing forums

PhotoFiltre 6.1.5 - Almost Portable and Free

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 18, 2006 - 4:52am

http://www.photofiltre.com/
On this site you can find PhotoFiltre 6.1.5 - a nice little photo editor with viewer.
It is free and works from USB (its size is less than 3MB). You only need to copy PhotoFiltre.exe and TranslationEN.plg (if you want English instead of French language) from the folder with installation.
It seems to me that PhotoFiltre 6.1.5 may be good portable image editor and viewer.

Spreadsheet Novelty

Submitted by justin on January 17, 2006 - 9:08pm

Hey, this isn't really pertinent to finding a decent spreadsheet, but I just found a port of the original VisiCalc spreadsheet program that was on really old IBMs. It has absolutely ZERO functionality, but it is cool to be able to see what was cutting edge back then. It runs in the DOS window in Windows. I am also happy to say that it is under 200 KB and runs great on a USB stick! Smile Follow the directions on the site carefully.

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