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Font management software

Submitted by hm2k on September 29, 2008 - 12:27pm

In light of the recent "PortableFonts 1.0.0.0" release: https://portableapps.com/node/15893

I was thinking about font management software.

I'd like to see a FontHit clone, FontHit was great font management software, it was free, however there's two major issues for PA, firstly it's not open source, and secondly it's abandonware (the site is no more).

You can still find a copy of FontHit on the web archive: http://web.archive.org/web/20060106000812/software.fonthit.com/download/...
(I can't locate a copy of FontHit-FontTools-0.3.zip)

World Wind

Submitted by hmorris on September 28, 2008 - 2:00pm

World wind is basically an open source alternative to Google Earth. So for the very few of you who don't know what that is it's a program that allows you to see anywhere in the world in 3-D. This app is open - source and free.
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/download.html that is the link to the download
http://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/index.html that is the home page

VMWare's ThinApp is the solution for many app requests

Submitted by tonythunfish on September 27, 2008 - 5:47pm

For "portablizing" specific apps I use VMWare's ThinApp (formerly known as Thinstall). I created a clean Windows Installtion in a virtual machine and there I simply install an app before packaging it with Thinapp.

Till now I portablized apps like:
- Creative Suite 3
- Mindjet Mindmanager (uses complete .NET FW appendice)

I think everyone knows that the apps mentioned above are really complex scenarios.
And so my definitive suggestion for specific apps (respectively those more complex than a 10-File utility)is ThinApp. Give it a try.

So far, :tony

Qt 4.4.2 by Trolltech

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Submitted by Gord Caswell on September 26, 2008 - 1:54pm

Program: Qt

License: Open Source/GPL

Description: Qt is a cross-platform C++ based application development framework.

Website: http://trolltech.com/downloads/opensource

Other:

  • 10 Registery Keys added to HKLM (when installed as administrator) However, I have successfully installed this program as a limited user as well.
  • This program also installs MinGW.

Request for RPG Maker VX Portable

Submitted by Guy_Dante on September 26, 2008 - 1:54pm

Hello guys!
I am new here, this is my first request...
I am a brazilian boy, so my english is not too good...

I love RPG´s, so I think in a Portable Version of RPG Maker VX...

I don´t know if this is hard to do, but the app is small, so I think it can be a
nice PortableApps...

I could help, but my english is too poor to make any diference...

Thank´s guys!

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