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Besides the portability of, well, portable apps, there is also privacy which I think everybody likes. There are utilities for antivirus etc., but I have yet to find one that cleans up after you work on a computer.

The ram footprint it has is extremely small and it's installation folder size is only up to 2MB. If it was ported to flash drives, I think it would make a great app.
-- CCleaner (http://www.ccleaner.com/)

Hi, John:

First, congratulate on the launch of PortableApps.com.

What you have done here will make the life of many people easier.
You should be proud of your work .

Ok, back to the topic, Firefox, Thunderbird, and OpenOffice.org are the major pillars of open source apps that benefit millions of people. Another application I bet most of us would like to see is Portable GIMP (or Portable GIMPShop). I used GIMP at home under Linux and would like to do so in my workplace without any installation so my system admin would not complain.

GIMP has been criticized for its arcane interface, and that's why GIMPShop was created to modify its interface to follow the menu layout of Photoshop, so that Photoshop users can use GIMPShop right away with ease.

http://azureus.sourceforge.net/

Azureus implements the BitTorrent protocol using java language and comes bundled with many invaluable features for both beginners and advanced users

Cheers,
Mguel

PS: Just in case, I'm thinking of using it on my PC

gvim will "work" from a removable media, but the problem is that any settings saved to your .vimrc or .gvimrc are not saved because of where gvim tries to access the rc files. A portable version of gvim would be incredibly handy.

Thanks for the great apps.

Personaly, I'm thrilled about Notepad 2. It's a small textediter like Notepad, but with MUCH more functionality built in without weighing it down much. It's a great IDE for a number of languages (just got to run it through a compiler/assembler), and it has a bunch of other cool functions too!

Check it out:

http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html

Being a Java executable, I should think that JSword (http://crosswire.org/jsword/) should be relatively easy to make into a Portable App. Unlike other Java Executable apps that I use (see thread titled "Portable Java Apps"), this one doesn't simply launch upon double-click. I'm still researching this issue...

Cheers,
QB

John,
What we need next is a utility the can intercept, at the system level, the system check for associated program calls and redirect it to the relavent portable apps.
Then portable really will be portable even to linking between applications.

I know a batch or script can be used that will log the existing FTYPE associations in windows and replace them the with the current portable locations the restore them later.

i.e.
C:\Program Files\Support Tools>ftype http >> CurrentSetting.txt
C:\Program Files\Support Tools>ftype https >> CurrentSetting.txt
would yield a file with:
http=C:\PROGRA~1\MOZILL~1\FIREFOX.EXE -url "%1"

For a game, Cube is a great open source doom clone. Bit big though, probably for ipods.

OperaUSB is already out (and ten megabytes smaller than firefox...), I'm not sure if this site will ever collaberate with that, but it is pretty cool, just not easy to find.

VLC is a media player

Space mongler is a classic utility that lets you see filesizes graphically

Just thought I would let everyone know about a little-known podcatcher that can be run from your usb-mp3 player. It downloads your podcasts straight to your drive, so if you don't have broadband at home like me, and have network restrictions like me, you can still use the office\school connection to download your podcasts. I think it would be great if it were listed on this site. The address is below.

http://www.rotzoll.de/podblogger/mp3stick/

I don't know if this is possible since I am not a programmer, but I have thought for a long time that it would be great if someone would develop an OS that runs from a flash drive. What I would like to see is a platform that would possibly autorun when the drive is plugged in and list the portable apps located on the drive in a virtual "Desktop". I know the U3 launchpad drives have been released, but I don't own one, and I think it would be great to have an alternative. Besides, from what I understand, you are required to purchase much of the portable software, and many free applications are not compatible with it yet.