General Discussion

I hear that the the life is drained with every write to the drive.

With apps like thunderbird (writing lots of mail) on my 1gb memorex traveldrive, even though i have a 2 year warranty, i'm curious if anyone know's how long a drive will typically last?

-Joe

If anybody has a good word processor that does .doc and .rtf, yet is still small, please post it here. It can have limited functionality, but as long as it does the things listed above and has other needed features, I want to hear about it.

p.s.-I already know about PortableAbiWord, but I want something smaller. I also know about QJot, but that requires an install of it to be copied over to a USB stick.

I know you already have a thing set up where people can contact others using personal email accounts, but what if you had a little messaging system where you typed in the user you wanted to send a message to and it appeared in a "Mailbox" in the "My Account" space. The Mailbox would house the compose mail section and the Inbox section. You could also mail people by clicking a link in their Profile. It would not use outside email, but instead just have messaging. This would be quite useful for things you want to discuss with others outside of the forums, yet not divulge your personal email for privacy reasons. Admins would be able to read all these mails (of course). If anyone agrees, post a reply. Obviously the creation of apps takes precedence over this, so I don't expect to see this anytime soon.

I am confused about the U3-standard as opposed to the apps here at PortableApps.com.

As I understand it, non-U3 PortableApps from this site can run on (almost) any device, including U3-devices. Whereas U3 apps only work on U3-devices. So the safe thing would be to buy a U3-device, so that I could use both types of apps, or? ...

Could someone explain the differences between the two platforms? What about security?

Thanks.

does anyone know of any firefox extension that would extract all URLs (includeing swf, movies, jpegs) from a web page?

I have found a media player that works from a portable drvie so far without modification. It is the VLC media player. I see right now though for someone to just unzip it to a portable drive it weighs in at 34.4 MB. But, it is just one of the many possibilities out there. There is also mplayer, which should work, but from the latest build, I don't see a gui present. But then again these are just some suggestions for possible media players.

Edit: This might not belong in the development section, but maybe in the General Discussion or Request apps areas.

Well, that was quite an experience. PortableApps.com ended up on the homepage of both Slashdot and Digg at the same time. Needless to say, this shared-hosting-based Drupal site wasn't quite ready for all of that. I was able to get placeholders up within an hour or two and keep the pages disabled. The Support section was brought back online first. Then the Apps Directory. I've re-enabled the forums for now and am watching the server load. I may have to disable them again until we at least drop off the Slashdot homepage (4th from the bottom now).

None of the download links appear to be working for me. I had to go to sourceforge and do a search in order to find them. Hopefully you can fix this.

John-

Do you have any games in mind for the Games section? I was wondering because not many people have posted requesting games. If you don't I'm sure I could dig up a few....

-Justin

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

You can find several very good apps there. You can also find Spread32, so far the only stand-alone spreadsheet I can find that is already portable.