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by Ascend4nt
Sun Aug 04, 2013 1:28 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: FileOptimizer - broad format compression
Replies: 138
Views: 406968

Re: FileOptimizer

Does anyone have contact information for the author of this software? I clicked the "Contact Me" link on his page but it just give an error. And I don't see any links in the program or its help file. The problem I'm trying to convey to the author is that the "PETrim" program is f...
by Ascend4nt
Thu Aug 01, 2013 4:13 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: PeStudio
Replies: 43
Views: 114195

Re: PeStudio

Regarding PEStudio's crashes or non-working GUI (as rhapdog reported), I've found a solution - at least to my problem. I'm not entirely sure how this is related to PEStudio, as the DLL I talk about does not appear in PEStudio's loaded-modules list.. but anyway, here's the scoop: There is a registry ...
by Ascend4nt
Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:25 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Calibre - ebook management
Replies: 39
Views: 114055

Re: calibre

I just posted about this elsewhere, but I figure it's good to document here as well. Calibre has an e-reader that can be used standalone (without going into the inventory program), as well as a command-line ebook converter, and other command-line utilities (check the Calibre subfolder). Using Calibr...
by Ascend4nt
Fri Jun 14, 2013 1:11 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: EBook readers and Ebook Library (Document Library)
Replies: 5
Views: 25233

Re: EBook readers and Ebook Library (Document Library)

Calibre should probably be added to this list, both as an e-reader and ebook library. The ereader can be used without needing to go into the inventory program itself - just launch 'ebook-viewer' which can be found here: Calibre Portable\Calibre\ebook-viewer.exe The document types support is pretty v...
by Ascend4nt
Fri Jun 14, 2013 12:59 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: SIV
Replies: 3
Views: 12262

Re: SIV

This can probably be updated with the portable command line option that's visible on the latest updates: Added support for SIVDEF.ini which can be used to provide defaults for configuration parameters that are not already present in the registry. By default SIV will save these defaults to the regist...
by Ascend4nt
Fri Jun 07, 2013 7:49 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Code::Blocks Portable
Replies: 14
Views: 23272

Re: Code::Blocks Portable

That 'EDU-Portable' is pretty old. Code::Blocks is up to 12.11, and you can download the portable launcher individually - see http://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/ ... 790#p60790
by Ascend4nt
Wed May 22, 2013 5:16 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Development
Topic: How to handle stored folder paths?
Replies: 7
Views: 10130

Re: How to handle stored folder paths?

victimofleisure, yes I meant 'app folder' by "%exepath%", sorry for the confusion. What you have looks fine, although I'd still argue relative paths from even "C:\Program Files\App" can be handled - you just need to check that the final path is writable. Also, you can use someth...
by Ascend4nt
Tue May 21, 2013 5:44 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Development
Topic: How to handle stored folder paths?
Replies: 7
Views: 10130

Re: How to handle stored folder paths?

victimofleisure, I'm aware of the Vista+ enforced guideline of saving settings outside of the program directory, however this shouldn't affect the way you view relative paths. Any relative paths saved as part of an application's settings or entered into configuration settings within the program shou...
by Ascend4nt
Tue May 21, 2013 10:43 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Development
Topic: How to handle stored folder paths?
Replies: 7
Views: 10130

Re: How to handle stored folder paths?

Relative paths should be considered relative to the main executable, not the current directory. To get the executable directory, you can use Windows' GetModuleFileName and then strip the executable name from the end of the path (do a reverse search for the '\' character and cut off the rest). There'...
by Ascend4nt
Sat May 18, 2013 9:59 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: PeStudio
Replies: 43
Views: 114195

Re: PeStudio

I'm having the same issues as Ascend4nt. Using the 6.89 version. Only difference is being that I have a link to "Lookup at VirusTotal", which does nothing when clicked. Windows 7 64-bit Ultimate, SP1. I have Visual Studio 2012 installed, which installed MS C++ runtimes for x86 and x64 for...
by Ascend4nt
Wed May 15, 2013 3:18 pm
Forum: CLI Submissions
Topic: Busy Box - Unix utilities in a single EXE
Replies: 34
Views: 86823

Re: Windows GREP

BusyBox
That's a sweet little package! Unfortunately, Unicode doesn't appear to be a priority. Only the following 4 utilities are reported as being 'fixed' for unicode:
- cal
- lsmod
- df
- dumpleases

See the TODO_unicode file, which appears to be unchanged in new versions as well.
by Ascend4nt
Tue May 14, 2013 4:04 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: grepWin - search and replace
Replies: 14
Views: 9240

Re: Windows GREP

Thanks guys for making me aware of another good program =) There's a portable version of grepWin at PortableApps.com , in case anyone hasn't seen it. Works pretty nicely - I just used it to get rid of all that extra data that Firefox tacks onto internet shortcuts. I wish there was an option to not i...
by Ascend4nt
Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:10 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Jumplist Launcher (specialized program launcher)
Replies: 11
Views: 9336

Re: Jumplist-Launcher

By the way, I happened to notice one other program that behaves similarly to this: Free Launch Bar http://www.freelaunchbar.com/ Free Launch Bar is the free replacement for the standard Quick Launch bar. All functions presented in Quick Launch are also in Free Launch Bar. However, the Free Launch Ba...
by Ascend4nt
Mon Apr 15, 2013 6:04 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Google Music Players
Replies: 2
Views: 6036

Google Music Players

So I have a collection on Google Music that I'd like to play from anywhere. But the problem is you need a browser with flash installed, or a standalone client that typically needs to be installed. Does anyone know of any program that can play google music portably? The players I've looked at: Google...
by Ascend4nt
Thu Apr 11, 2013 4:54 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Jumplist Launcher (specialized program launcher)
Replies: 11
Views: 9336

Re: Jumplist-Launcher

Have you noticed the updates? http://www.ali.dj/jumplist-launcher-v7-released/ ... Not sure what you mean? The last update on that webpage seems to be in 2009, and this thread was started in 2010.. however, I just checked, and I'm at v7.2. Btw, if you run it too, can you confirm the slow launch tim...