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Portable AOL browser?

Submitted by f a n d u r m on August 9, 2006 - 3:46pm

i was looking for an application to make AOL(i know really bad isp, but i have alot of friends on there)Portable. I know you could possibly format the thumb drive making it a mini hd in a way, but i was looking at an easier way out of formating it. What im looking for is someone or people to make the new AOL portable so that i may access it via thumb drive rather than installing it on the host computer, and having to move all the program files associated with AOL to the thumb drive. Which if you are like me, you dont know everything to move to the thumb drive. Making the program worthless and frusturating for the person trying to do it on their own.

TrueCrypt backup caution

Submitted by azjerry on August 9, 2006 - 12:02pm

Like a lot of people, I use TrueCrypt on my USB drive. Even though it's not strictly portable it works for me. For backing up my USB drive I use SyncBack which uses file dates to determine which files have changed. I assumed that every time I used the TC encrypted drive that the timestamp of the container file would change and, therefore, be backed up.

Yesterday I needed to restore my container file from the backup. It turns out that TC by default does not update the timestamp when the volume is unmounted. It's part of plausible deniability. Therefore, my backup process had not backed up the container file since I first created it.

Protable JAWS Screen Reader

Submitted by carlleewilson on August 8, 2006 - 2:12pm

I was looking around the other day at the Freedom Scientific site and saw that they have JAWS 7.0 for USB Thumb Drives... Thought that might be a valuable offering on the site. For either visually impaired users or for application developers trying to make their applications more accessible. Here is the URL: http://www.freedomscientific.com/fs_downloads/jaws.asp

DebugMode Wax

Submitted by bublible on August 4, 2006 - 7:00pm

DebugMode Wax is freeware application similiar to Sony VEGAS or Microsoft MovieMaker. It'd be greate to have such a sw portable...I would accept reg entry if it would run from current directory without installing, for example extracted to USB Smile

I did my own try and I cuold run the application although it shows some error screen on startup like this: "Unable to load any file handler! Corrupt installation?". All was fine but it crashes as I try to make new project...:-)))

So I guess some "regserver" routine (or what) will be neede but it is beyond my actual knowledge...it's up tu you portable-guys.

Portable Gizmo

Submitted by zarathosss on August 4, 2006 - 5:52am

Gizmo is a free software for calling computers or phones from a computer (as Skype).
What is usefull in Gizmo is that you can configure a SIP account, and so use for example the freebox SIP account from any computer (just requiring an internet connection)... That's why it would be so usefull to have it portable...

For more informations, the website is : http://www.gizmoproject.com/

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