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Libertà Release: Sync 2.0

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on June 12, 2006 - 12:26pm

Sync 2.0 is now released. It features a number of improvements over 1.x & 0.x including:

  • New Interface
  • Inbuilt Category Editor
  • More Efficient Copying

I'm sure you will agree that it is a much better product. Thanks to Jacoby for his extensive testing.

Get it here. Project page here

Enjoy!

P.S. Look out for Backup 2.0 Coming Very Soon.

P.P.S Due to a last minute bug cache options are disabled. 2.1 with corrected cache options com

Quickly compress dll and exe files for portable apps

Submitted by Slythfox on June 10, 2006 - 4:17am

I thought this might be useful to some portable app developers. The program is called UPX Mass Compress (which uses... UPX, who would have guessed?), and it's a simple program that quicky compresses a bunch of dll/exe files. This program saved me lots of time for the two portable applications I maintain, especially with all the dll files in Portable Scribus.

Here's the download and information page:
http://www.quate.net/newsnet/read.php?id=44

Hopefully this is useful to someone, as I took the effort to make it public. I probably lost the time I saved from using this program, to make it ready for a public release.

Launcher versions and automatic updates

Submitted by Jeremiah on June 8, 2006 - 3:48pm

Playing with things this morning I began to wonder about the automatic updates for Firefox/Thunderbird/etc. and keeping our portable versions current. The auto-update feature keeps the browser/mail reader/etc. current, but the portable versions use a launcher and perhaps other nifty stuff which isn't updated.

The pFirefox support page lists the launcher version number in the revision history which was easily compared to the launcher version number in my install. They matched; the world is good. The pThunderbird support page does not list the revision history for pThunderbird and does not refer to the launcher version at all. I've been letting my pThunderbird install auto-update since before it went gold and now I find that my launcher revision is 1.1.1.3, several revisions behind the current 1.1.4.1 found in a fresh download of the package. </ugly run-on sentence>

Release: PortableSoulseek Launcher

Submitted by Ashes for Tears on June 5, 2006 - 5:22am

Soulseek(tm) is a unique ad-free, spyware free, and just plain free file sharing application.

After a lot of tweaking, and testing, here is a launcher for the request in This Thread. After one customization, you will have a self-contained, portable, and personalized Soulseek. All instructions and required information can be found in the READMEFIRST.txt file. Source code is included.

Zip File:

Libertà Icons/Graphics

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on June 4, 2006 - 2:45am

Just to let you all know, I'm doing the icons for Libertà
If you would like to help, comment below.
I have most done, but need some help with some of them.
Unfortunately, my computer is in repair, but as soon as it is back I will distribute the PSD sources for the ones I have done to the people that can help me.
Steve, any comments?

any need for portable gimp with working help files?

Submitted by papabus on June 1, 2006 - 6:05pm

Hey,

I am not sure if it is wanted... for personal use I got the help files working in the portable gimp.
It was just too easy so perhaps I am just making a fool out of my self presenting it.... However, its seems (in the gimp forum here) some ppl are asking how to get it working. Perhaps a central dowload on this site should help them?

most regards

martin

UltraVNC viewer Portable

Submitted by Machete on May 30, 2006 - 12:47pm

I had been thinking of making a launcher for this for some time. Then, just this past weekend, it finally sunk in - uvnc is GPL! So, I modified the source to the vncviewer app, so it is now portable (I originally implemented a "-portable" parameter, which is still available below).

Libertà Release: Sync 2.0 Release Candidate 3

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on May 30, 2006 - 11:03am

Sync 2.0 RC3 released

General Information

This version fixes both the overwrite files option and the remove original files option. It also adds a category editor and fixes the title. Finally it moves to properly sizer based layout as well as cleaning up the code.

Please post any bugs below. Get it here. Project page here.

Known Bugs

  • None at this time

To Do

  • Nothing

Compilers

Submitted by tencpa on May 30, 2006 - 4:45am

Hi All!
I'm working on an app to launch latex compilers for math typing from a text editor.
Actually I've to use absolute path to the compiler living on USB-stick, is there someone who dealt with a workaround to let this path not depending on USB-disk-letter assigned from Windows?
Many thanks for any ideas
Paolo

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