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BB Desktop Manager

Submitted by gooseman on September 29, 2008 - 10:36pm

Hi, I'm just discovering this great phenom portable apps. I must say this has almost everything i need to be truely mobile. The main thing that portable apps is missing for me is blackberry's desktop manager. I'm not sure if it is possible and I haven't done much research on this, but I would really be happy if it is possible.

Hibernate

Submitted by hmorris on September 29, 2008 - 9:31pm

Ok so I know not many people need this app but I think it would be great to have a program that when you click on it hibernates your computer. I know you can just do the shortcut thing but this is intended for people whos admin has blocked the hibernation feature.

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

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