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Here is an idea that I havent seen thrown around in here yet, so I figure I can touch base with it. With apps like pstart and such are excellent for loading programs from a key, but still it doesnt have the customization (and personality) as your own desktop, and for those of us who dont know a thing about cars, I think its time we "tricked out" something of our own for a change. I figure, why not give a shot to something like a portable shell that can be loaded on every machine, to make that computer really yours for just a short while. having worked just a little on shell programs, this is something I havent had too much experience with, so this is as much a learning experience as it is a writing experience for me. As such, any comments, criticisims, or missing info you would like to add would be wonderful.

For those who use both Mac and PC. There is a way to run both PC and Mac portable apps on a USB flash drive seemlessly by creating a HFS+ formatted sparse disk image directly on the FAT formated USB flash drive.

First there is a website for portable apps for Mac at http://www.freesmug.org/portableapps where you should download Portable Firefox, Portable Adium, Portable Thunderbird, etc.
And of course http://www.portableapps.com for PC users.

Second, format your USB flash drive as FAT (MS-DOS) if it isn't already.

Third, on a Mac, go to "Disk Utility" and select your USB flash drive, then go to File-> New-> Blank Disk Image. Type a name for it, select a place for it (your USB flash drive), select a size, but make it around the size of your USB flash drive so you have room on the disk image for your portable Mac apps.

Am I the only person in the world using portable apps from my Sony PSP if you save the file s as jpeg in the psp in the PHOTO folder you can even view them without going near a PC something even the humble flash drive cant do. I have installed Open office, Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird, on my PSP's 2gig inernal memory card
warm regards

Just found a very interesting site:
http://www.xoblite.net/

This one is a shell replacement for windows, and portable. The drawback is: it replaces the wallpaper of the host......

Has anyone noticed that on https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/rss the Portable Thunderbird link points to https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/email/portable_thunderbrid
not
https://portableapps.com/apps/internet/email/portable_thunderbird
just thought I would mention it.

Hello !

i was wondering if it would be a good idea to partition a USB (edit:thumb) drive.

Did anyone try this ?

Thanks in advance,

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Please remove the user 'albator' and any sock puppets from the forums through any means necessary. He's annoying, and I've been here all of 10 minutes. He keeps posting his web site listing "375 portable apps" on like every freaking thread out there.

If the user evades the ban, recommended steps may include reporting to his ISP; and if that fails reporting the massive amounts of spam to his host so they shut his site down. Retalliation by the user may be met by (again) the ISP abuse address, or by contacting your host and requesting they block the user's IP address.

Have Portable FF - v 1.5

Here at work we go through a proxy as such I get a error:
Proxy server is refusing connections.
Is there a way around this?
What do I need?

Ok, maybe it's just me, but I'm confused. I found the portable suite package, which says it fits on a 256Mb drive. And it should - according to windows, the entire extracted package is 214Mb. But when I extract it to my USB drive, I keep getting an out of space error.

I checked the size of my USB drive in windows (right click on properties, see general tab) and it says the drive is 244Mb (which is 256,507,904 bytes) which is correct, and which should (tightly) accomodate 214Mb of data.

I tried both extracting from the zip directly to the USB drive, and then extracting the files first to my C:\ drive and attempting to copy them over. Both fail - I get an "out of space" error.

Hi

Is it worth creating a structure in the forums that mimics the structure you have set up in the "Applications" area of the web site.
This means that people can post (and find) posts related to the revelant type of software they are looking for?

Ross