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Vector Drawing Program

Submitted by paul chong on August 14, 2006 - 5:11am

Hi all,

I'm using a window version of Xara, which is a vector drawing program. They recently released a linux open source version call Xara LX. See website: http://www.xaralx.org . I was wondering if there was any way to make this a portable app but for window users? I tried using EVE and Inkscape for drawing and feel that Xara was easier to use.

Thank You.

Paul Chong

GnuPG and WinPT portable

Submitted by Teuchtlurm on August 13, 2006 - 12:32pm

It's great that there is the possibility to use the bundle Thunderbird with gnugpg and enigmail portable. But if you want to use gnupg with some other programs, e.g. psi, you need a keymanager, too. So you can use winpt, but you have to install.

I think it would be good to have standalone gnupg and standalone winpt, or a bundle with standalone gnupg and winpt.

There exists the bundle "GnuPG basics" with gnupg and winpt, but it's not portable: http://people.freenet.de/rose-indorf/

It's possible for you to do that - and, of course, are you interested?

Regards,
Teuchtlurm (sorry fo

Thunderbird and encryption of profile, account infos, addressbook

Submitted by stn21 on August 13, 2006 - 6:47am

Hi,

this topic has been discussed before and always seemed to run into a dead end.

Thunderbird allows the encryption of account-login-name and password.

All other info is still available unencrypted in the files in the folder profile. This includes my email-addresses and mail-providers, address book and at least some of the mail-headers and subjects in the folders.

The latter can be resolved by (securely) deleting all the mailboxes (*.msf) or better still the folders .../ImapMail and .../Mail after shutting down thunderbird. These folders are then recreated once thunderbird is started again.

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

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