General Discussion

Call it lazy or what ever, but is there a way I could short cut the apps to the root directory of my USB drive so that no matter what drive letter the drive is named as the shortcut will still be valid? Right now for FireFox I have the short cut as E:/.../.../PortableFireFox.exe, but if I go to another computer with a differe number of drives, it could be named F: or G: and then I have to click 3 more times to get to it; I supose it's more of a 'can it be done' because the few extra clicks aren't realy a bother.

Due to the immense popularity of this thread, it is continued on What's on your portable? #2

On a 512MB USB drive I have...
7-Zip - File Compression
Emptemp2 - Temp Files Cleaner
Tweakui - Windows Settings Tweaker
100Zipper - File Compression
dscrypt - File encryption
dsdel - secure deletion
eprompter - email notifier
Foxit Reader - PDF reader
Fusion - Media player
gimp-2.2 - graphics editor
Irfanview - image viewer/browser
IEPrivacyKeeper - Internet Tracks cleaner
Kpad - Word Processor
Portable Firefox - Web Browser

I ran accross this, incase anyone is interested or might help with other appz

http://nedwolf.com/Freeware-Portable.htm

http://www.richskills.com/

http://www.cylog.org/

http://www.faststone.org/download.htm

http://www.portablefreeware.com/all.php

This is great! Your old site has been updated! Hope this one gets more atention.

I have one request though: Could you release the launcher alone (for us to download the launcher and use it with our language version)?

I am portuguese and therefore would like some apps (such as Open Office in my language). If I recall correctly we needed to use PEcompact to make the app smaller.

Could you please make a tutorial to help us, non-english native speakers to get the apps running in our language from a mobile media drive.

By the way, great project

Hi John,

Love the site graphics and layout. Very crisp. I conversed with you a while back 1.4 upgrade I think. Great tie in the the new FF release. Nice Job.

Just a single request. On the Forum RSS XML could you add the 'author', 'poster' or 'creator' tag? Also you could add your Banner URL to the feeds, it makes the RSSReaders happy.

PS Why arent the forum 'signatures' functioning? Ed

CoolPlayer is a great portable media player. Filesize just 584kb. Has lots of functionality, I use it to play mp3's on my flash drive.
Website: http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

Called "Recommend Apps" for recommended applications that are already portable.
This should be the first link in it:
http://www.tinyapps.org/

and this should be the second:
http://www.xtort.net/office/floppyoffice.php

Also, http://www.nirsoft.net/ has some nifty stuff on the utility side.

(Really need to learn how to put <br>s in this)

Hey congrats on the new site. I love portable firefox and use it at work all the time. One question I have is this site just for the applications that you make portable or as a site cataloging all the different kind of apps that work on flash drives etc...

what I mean by cataloging is something like portablefreeware.com which is another great site which points to your portable apps.

just wondering but in any case love the new version. keep up the great work.

I would like to recommend a new general forum "Other Portable Apps" (Share your experiences with other portable apps here).

Thanks,
QB

I use several Java-executable apps on my USB thumb-drive. These should not require additional development (but this seemed the best forum anyway

PLCash.jar - a personal finance program
JTides.jar - a tides calculator
SatFinder.jar - a satellite finder (for television, hams, etc)

All the above can be found at http://www.arachnoid.com. Be sure to read the developer's statement about what he calls "CareWare".