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by Darkbee
Fri Jan 26, 2007 12:08 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Online Bookmark Manager - Suggestions please
Replies: 16
Views: 29539

Google is obvious the big name in Internet at the moment but like Yahoo, they recommend you install the Google Toolbar and I don't know that I'm too thrilled about that. I'm guessing that there is no toolbar for the Mac (and maybe one for Linux, but that's a maybe). Livefavorites.com looks quite nic...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:01 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Online Bookmark Manager - Suggestions please
Replies: 16
Views: 29539

Apparently nedwolf is giving spurl.net a thumbs up. I would use Yahoo but that would defeat the purpose, since it seems that you have to install the toolbar and I really don't want to have to do that. I also retract my statement about frames, as I see now that they could be useful in this situation....
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:33 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Online Bookmark Manager - Suggestions please
Replies: 16
Views: 29539

Online Bookmark Manager - Suggestions please

I've finally given up on the idea of having a portable bookmark manager (that is freeware or open source) and am now actually coming around to the idea of having an online bookmark repository. Now I know that there are a million and one sites that offer free bookmark storage but I was wondering if p...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:30 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Update
Topic: HD Tune 2.53
Replies: 1
Views: 3540

The Flash Memory Toolkit looks quite interesting, but sadly not free.
by Darkbee
Wed Jan 24, 2007 8:36 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Is Shareaza portable?
Replies: 4
Views: 15585

Hold on to your hats, it might be in the pipeline. Huzzah!
by Darkbee
Tue Jan 23, 2007 7:45 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Discussion: Rating system for TPFC
Replies: 15
Views: 60657

I don't think the "two picks per category" is necessary since how many notepads can one person use? if you're talking about broader categories like say "Audio", then particular individuals may work extensively with audio files but rarely have anything to do with images. Forcing t...
by Darkbee
Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:48 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Discussion: Rating system for TPFC
Replies: 15
Views: 60657

Maybe, by requiring a minimum number of words for the comment (hence eliminating useless ones like "This rocks" or "Good!"), and making these comments easily viewable as a list for any particular app, it will increase the barrier to gaming the system, since the abuser will have ...
by Darkbee
Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:55 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Discussion: Rating system for TPFC
Replies: 15
Views: 60657

It's an interesting idea but one that I'd prefer to see alongside a user-wide rating system because, as you said yourself, there are literally hundreds of applications in the database and I use (or have used) only a very small percentage of them. Furthermore, already in the very small list of apps t...
by Darkbee
Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:37 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Discussion: Rating system for TPFC
Replies: 15
Views: 60657

Well I'm sort of going to contradict myself a little bit and say that the most important thing is to keep it fairly simple (however, not SO simple as to use a single 5 star rating system). I probably don't need to go into the dangers of making the rating system so horrendously complicated. My instin...
by Darkbee
Sat Jan 20, 2007 2:35 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: ASuite - application launcher
Replies: 180
Views: 130378

As I suspected, I've been checking again and PStart memory usage seems to peak at around 9MB (which is a figure that I had in my head from previous tests). So, ASuite isn't too far behind, I'm just a minimalist kinda guy... basically I'm tight fisted and refuse to shell out for a 10GHz quad core PC ...
by Darkbee
Sat Jan 20, 2007 5:54 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Replies: 46
Views: 116554

Thanks for the input. My current thinking wrt. prefs.txt file is that I want my cake and eat it too. Currently it's stored in %APP_DATA% directory because this is recommended by Microsoft guidelines. But doesn't work for portable usage. Solution I'm thinking about is: detect portable usage (if app ...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:34 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Replies: 46
Views: 116554

I've just been testing it some more and it seems that window position is 'remembered' if I open Sumatra.exe directly, but not if I double-click a PDF file. Furthermore, the window size is never remembered and seems to default to some annoyingly high size that it just slightly too big to fit on my sc...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 19, 2007 8:22 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: SumatraPDF - lightweight PDF viewer
Replies: 46
Views: 116554

I'm the author of SumatraPDF and I'm interested in making in more portable. Currently, the only thing Sumatra PDF writes to registry is to associate itself with PDF files. In future versions it'll ask the user for permission first. Sumatra also remembers things like list of recently opened files by...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 19, 2007 7:49 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: ASuite - application launcher
Replies: 180
Views: 130378

I just tried this program out for the very first time and must say that I was pleasantly surprised, there are some really nice features and I was almost tempted to abandon PStart right there and then BUT (and you knew it was coming didn't you!)... The memory usage seems to be more than double that o...
by Darkbee
Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:11 pm
Forum: Portable Hardware Discussion
Topic: What hardware are you using?
Replies: 67
Views: 215519

I'm using a 10GB Toshiba 2.5" laptop drive, taken from a now defunct Sony Laptop (it bit the bullet long before I removed the HD sadly). Although, it is a minor irritation to have to carry a cable around, I find that the superior capacity convenient, meaning that I have no worries about not hav...