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Vector Drawing Program

Submitted by paul chong on August 14, 2006 - 5:11am

Hi all,

I'm using a window version of Xara, which is a vector drawing program. They recently released a linux open source version call Xara LX. See website: http://www.xaralx.org . I was wondering if there was any way to make this a portable app but for window users? I tried using EVE and Inkscape for drawing and feel that Xara was easier to use.

Thank You.

Paul Chong

GnuPG and WinPT portable

Submitted by Teuchtlurm on August 13, 2006 - 12:32pm

It's great that there is the possibility to use the bundle Thunderbird with gnugpg and enigmail portable. But if you want to use gnupg with some other programs, e.g. psi, you need a keymanager, too. So you can use winpt, but you have to install.

I think it would be good to have standalone gnupg and standalone winpt, or a bundle with standalone gnupg and winpt.

There exists the bundle "GnuPG basics" with gnupg and winpt, but it's not portable: http://people.freenet.de/rose-indorf/

It's possible for you to do that - and, of course, are you interested?

Regards,
Teuchtlurm (sorry fo

Thunderbird and encryption of profile, account infos, addressbook

Submitted by stn21 on August 13, 2006 - 6:47am

Hi,

this topic has been discussed before and always seemed to run into a dead end.

Thunderbird allows the encryption of account-login-name and password.

All other info is still available unencrypted in the files in the folder profile. This includes my email-addresses and mail-providers, address book and at least some of the mail-headers and subjects in the folders.

The latter can be resolved by (securely) deleting all the mailboxes (*.msf) or better still the folders .../ImapMail and .../Mail after shutting down thunderbird. These folders are then recreated once thunderbird is started again.

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