Request Apps

I'm trying to prepare for when our USB drive usage at work becomes limited, i.e. if the USB ports become disabled or restricted. So I'm trying to put my portable apps on a CD. However, I noticed that some of the key porta-apps I use need an INI file to run properly. For some of them, I could probably come up with a wrapper batch file. But for most of them, an INI file is a must.

So I'm looking to see if it's possible to dynamically create/load/mount a RAM disk. If so, I could copy the porta-app I want over to the RAM disk and then run it from there. When I'm done using the porta-app, I can then just remove it from the RAM disk. Hopefully, this could all be done with a batch file.

I would prefer to use SyncBack but it stores it setting to the registry. Does anybody have any suggestions on an alternative that can compress the backups. I tried portable Abakt but it had some downfalls. The most anoying is that if I just want to copy a file it won't do it without storing it in the same path in the destination directory. Thanks

Haven't you noticed already that all the applications on this web site are open-source? Thats because poor John Haller can't just go and take the source of some big commercial program, say anything by Microsoft and modify it so it fits on a small drive. If he does, he risks huge lawsuits, because huge companies, again like Micosoft, want to make money off of their products, and just won't let anyone distribute their programs freely. So please, if you are to propose something , propose something thats opensource and stop posting junk in this section.

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I'm a scientist and I am looking for something to keep a journal for my research. Currently I use sunbird for this task and it gets the job done. I just wanted to compare with other programs to see what I like best.

methlabs.org

I think skype should be made into a portable app. What do you think?

Dear all,

I found some Protable Applications on http://www.framakey.org/Portables/Index.

I tested PortableInkscape and PortableAudacity, both are Ok. In the UserProfile directory the Audacity.reg file should be edited from "Language"="fr" to "Language"="en".

There is also a PortableWinLAME, for those how are interessted in audio applications.

Jens

Edit: Here's a better application for this:
http://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=419

Is it possible in the near future to have a portable app for Quicken Finance software?
I am unable to install the program @ work due to administrative privileges not being afforded to me.

Thanks

This 1.7MB (unzipped) pack contains 24 games and is listed under kikizas.net
" http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ "
All it really needs are icons for each game -which it's currently lacking- and it would be cool if it had a launcher to display all the games at once.

This is from the site:
"This game collection is copyright 2004-2005 Simon Tatham (portions copyright Richard Boulton, James Harvey and Mike Pinna). It is all distributed under the MIT licence. This means that you can do pretty much anything you like with the game binaries or the code, except pretending you wrote them yourself, or suing me if anything goes wrong."