Portable App Development

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

• New Interface
• Support for 7Zip
• Appending Backups
• Over 100% faster

Get it here. Project page here

Enjoy!

To me, standalone has always meant a single executable file, without being dependant on DLL's. Is there a way of integrating such files like DLL's into the executable? I think this would solve many of the problems on library and school computers that so far are unable to block standalone .exe's from running inside .zip files. If further development is made on standalone apps, it would be helpful if the type of app is labelled on the site, i.e. "Standalone single executable", or otherwise.

We are looking for some people to write pages for the Libertà Help Handbook. If you can assist, please post here and send your content to cubegames@gmail.com
It can be written in either text or HTML version. It should be set out like the Sync help here

Libertà Backup 2.0 RC 2 Released.

General Info

A near complete revamp of Backup 2.0 This version should be much faster (e.g. 100% at least). It also enables all of the previously disabled options.

Get it here
Project page here

N.B. The project page still relates to 1.01

Known Bugs

None (yet ;))

How do you make launchers? Im still in the batch phase- and it sucks.

Libertà Backup 2.0 RC 1 Released.

General Info

Just a release so that I can see first impressions.

Get it here
Proeject page here

N.B. The project page still relates to 1.01

Known Bugs

• The append option doesn't work
• The option to use date/time doesn't work

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

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.

I have been looking for a truly portable pdf reader for a while, thought I had found it with Foxit, but it writes to the registry, it occured to me that maybe a plug in for Open Office might be the answer.

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>