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PortableApps.com Wikipedia Page Development

Submitted by Patrick Patience on October 13, 2007 - 9:36pm

10/15/07/ - UPDATE: We're currently working on a Wiki article about PortableApps.com. If you're interested, you can head over to the link below and begin contributing. Please make sure you make use of all of the content from the stories on the News Page. If you do use content from an article, make sure you properly cite the info on the page. You can find out more info about all the formatting and citing, etc at Wikipedia.org. Please feel free to contribute, and try your best.

New Folder Shortcut in PortableAppl menu

Submitted by wrobel-cwirek on October 9, 2007 - 4:16pm

Hi

I'm writing a Comic Book files reader (Java-Comix) and I have prepared portable version of it (unfortunately only manual installation is required) - soon it will be available from source forge page (I mean the portable version).

But back to the question - how to add a new shortcut to a folder from the USB drive to the menu (like there are Documents, Music, Pictures, Video...)?

I want to have a "Comic books" option there. It would be fallowing path: Documents\Comix

Is it possible to extend that menu?

Thanks in advance,
Wrobel-Cwirek

.PAF.EXE creation

Submitted by rvreugde on October 8, 2007 - 7:33am

Hi All,

I have searched through the forum, but I did not find the answer directly.

I manage to create a Portable App, but, I just need to create a PAF.EXE file, in order to let it "install" via the PAM.

Can anobody tell me the "secret"? Wink

Thanks a lot in advance...

Canorus - Who's Interested? (Music Composition)

Submitted by Patrick Patience on October 6, 2007 - 11:10pm

A while back I was looking for an open source Music Notation/Composition Program. I found Lilypond, which is all text based. I was going to work on making it portable, but it's not that beneficial to most users. There are about three GUI's for Lilypond, but only one has Windows binaries, and it's not so great. It also hasn't been updated in a while.

ToDoList 5.3.9 Portable Need feedback. (Discontinued)

Submitted by wsm23 on October 6, 2007 - 12:06pm

I am attempting to make ToDoList 5.3.9 paf compliant.

What: ToDoList is a hierarchical task manager with native XML support for custom reporting. It allows you to repeatedly sub-divide your tasks into more manageable pieces, which makes it ideal for IT related projects as well as more general activities.
Size: about 2MB
Registry: None
Writes Settings: .xml file
Web Site: (link removed)

[Theme] 10 Friends

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Submitted by MrElchbau on October 6, 2007 - 6:22am

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netbeans portable

Submitted by webmailusr-msn on October 6, 2007 - 1:30am

Hi:
I have already seen around here people asking for netbeans portable. I made an experiment and realized that it is possible - at least with version 5.5.1-
I zipped the contents of the folder where it was installed, then unzipped it in another pc, and found it doesn't have any problem, except that you have to let it know where is java jdk. So a simple patch is this: unzip it and edit etc\netbeans.conf
Set the java path in etc\netbeans.conf at:
netbeans_jdkhome="c:\program files\Java\jdk1.6.0_02" (or wherever you have it).

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