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Discuss portable app development and modification of existing apps.

Portable Winamp

Submitted by mdweaver7485 on April 12, 2006 - 3:04am

This is the begining of a portable media player based around winamp in response to the need for some suggestions topic began by Mark.
https://portableapps.com/node/1340. If there are any plugins or skins that you think would work better or are missing please comment.

Features:
Interface similar to WMP9,
Portable player support
Mp3, Ogg, Itunes and WMA support as well as FLAC.
Some video formats are supported, right now there is dvd playback throught the mplayer plugin but it is quite shaky

Update: Eliminated Video Flashing during DVD Playback, however only can play 1436 of dvd.

Portable Adobe Photoshop CS2 v9.0 (26 MB) Project

Submitted by aniperleo on April 11, 2006 - 2:51am

Creating a legitimate, portable Adobe Photoshop & ImageReady CS2 is entirely possible! Creating a working NSIS-based launcher is still in development, however, these are the exact steps I have taken to reach the nearest point. To write these steps most accurately, I am starting with neither Adobe Photoshop/ImageReady CS2 or its activation license on the machine...

  • Locate the directory that contains your Adobe Photoshop CS2 setup installation.
  • Install Adobe Photoshop CS2, enter your serial registration, and activate the product.
  • Create a new directory on your computer and copy the following necessary files for Adobe Photoshop CS2 & Adobe ImageReady CS2 to operate:
  • Portable Notepad2 Released!

    Submitted by nm35 on April 9, 2006 - 4:31pm

    After toying with it for quite some time, I've finally come up with a version of Portable Notepad2 I consider worthy of public release -- PortableNotepad2 0.4.

    Portable Notepad2 lets you use the Notepad2 text editor on the go, without leaving mess behind on the current computer. Get it at the Notepad2 project page.

    UPDATE: Now comes in two flavors: EXE and ZIP downloads. Waiting on SF.net hosting...

    Developer Features Beta Testing

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    Submitted by John T. Haller on March 29, 2006 - 1:31pm

    I've just implemented the first of the developer features and am looking to have a few folks beta test to see how things are working out. So far, I have implemented:

    - Developer Blogs (portableapps.com/blogs/username)
    - Developer Test Projects (within portableapps.com/development/projects - not up yet)
    - Developer Chat

    I already have 3 beta testers. I could use a few more to start trying these things out.

    Oh, and everybody is welcome to try out the new chatbox. It's in development/chat.

    More attractive

    Submitted by fluppen on March 29, 2006 - 12:28pm

    Hey

    What would you guys think of the possibility to change the splashscreen?
    So you can't only change the theme or the language of your favorite browser,
    but also the splashscreen. And maybe there could come a section with the best
    splashscreens, maybe a competition.

    sorry for my bad English.

    fluppen

    Careful when creating portable apps> Hidden files may still be stored!

    Submitted by Slythfox on March 21, 2006 - 7:32pm

    I've noticed this: some programs that apear to work portably, actually leave behind files in: C:\Documents and Settings\*User Directory*\Application Data (it's a hidden file) and in other places. When developing apps, it would probably be best to make sure your application doesn't do that.

    Programs that do this:
    uTorrent
    Inkscape
    Notepad++
    USBOpera (I think so, but then again, since the physical folder is called "Opera" perhaps only the install version of Opera does this.)

    Thankfully it only does this to the folder of the user you are logged in as.

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