You are here

Request Apps

Got a suggestion for an app that should be portable? Post it here.

PDF Viewer, Ghost View

Submitted by SparkyJones on April 12, 2006 - 8:52am

If your on the go in an office environment, PDF files are a must.

I work for the Marine Corps, and use a lot of PDF files, but sadly our computer systems are contracted out to EDS. So no one has rights to install things, and on some machines Adobe isn't there. Sometimes that just puts us in between a rock and a hard place.

GhostView is a great opensource PDF viewer. I believe it would be well worth the time and effort to make it portable. Also why not include Ghost Script so people can also create PDF files. The cost of the Adobe program to create PDF files is outrageous and would be benificial to a lot of people.

a random thought

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 12, 2006 - 1:04am

I had a thought while trying to find the stip of paper that has my logon info; namely it would be really neato to be able to have my thumbdrive log me in when I put it into the computer. (It has more memory than I do Smile

Portable GIS anybody??

Submitted by Base on April 11, 2006 - 3:22pm

As a forrestry management student we work alot with different GIS systems, so it would be very handy to have one portable to work with on PC who don't have any GIS app running, so if anybody would now a good GIS app wich could be made (or is) portable.

Tnx

B@se

Locking my PC

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on April 10, 2006 - 5:15pm

When i put my flash drive in.If im away from my pc and i dont want anybody to touch my pc and would like to lock my desktop ect with password. Is this possible thanks?

Armagetron (Game)

Submitted by CraZy675 on April 10, 2006 - 3:36pm

Armagetron is a really fun Open Source game. We play 16 player on the School's LAN,
but we have to re-install everytime, it would be great if we could save our playernames, hot keys etc on our thumbdrives.
I don't think there is much (if any) programming needs to be done cause it already allows you to install to a thumbdrive.

Link:
http://armagetronad.net/

Webroot Spy Sweeper

Submitted by Eric Peterson on April 10, 2006 - 9:29am

I have been trying for some time to make Spy Sweeper portable. I use it daily, but keep having to install the app on computers to run it. I have found all the registry entries that it uses, and all the files that are installed. I am also able to create and start the 2 services that are installed, but I still can't get it to work correctly. I was hoping someone else was working on this idea also.

Pages