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Oops... sorry, Checker. I didn't see Jarte listed on the home page with other udpated apps, so I incorrectly assumed it had not been noticed. I guess not all app updates make it to the front page. You're obviously on top of things so I won't submit any more Jarte updates here.

Version 3.4 of the Jarte word processor has been released.

Download: http://www.jarte.com/download.html

What's New: http://www.jarte.com/whats_new.html

a tutorial or faq might be helpful Yeah, the web site and documentation are a little skimpy at this point, but they'll eventually fill out. Meanwhile, the Quick Start and Making Apps Portable pages should help some. would be nice if it worked on local hdd I'll consider that. AB is prevented from ru...

The List you gave us, for all intensive purposes is useless I apologize if I misinterpreted Donald's question and my response was "useless". Personally, I prefer not to use unofficial builds of open source apps, but I admit I may be in the minority in that regard. No, we want you to list ...

Many of these apps you listed are already portable/exist in portable form. I should have been more clear: App Briefcase makes the official builds of the apps I listed portable. The official builds of all those apps have entries in the registry and/or user app data folders, and AB handles those. I t...

looks nice, but is it something like a mix of mojopac and pstart? The effect is more like a combination of NSIS launchers and PStart. AB does basically the same thing as NSIS launchers (i.e., establish, and later restore, registry entries and user app data files), but without the need for scripting...

I am introducing a new program that allows some non-portable apps to run as portable apps. The program is called App Briefcase and can be found at http://www.appbriefcase.com. I released the first beta version of the program today. More information is on the web site, but I will provide a little inf...

Give TopOCR (www.topocr.com) a try. It's free, and in my experience it is significantly more accurate than FreeOCR. It appears to be portable and I don't see any registry entries or user app data files, which is more than I can say for FreeOCR.

"self enclosed" I like that, although "self contained" may be even better. "stealth" would be good enough for me too as we have been using it at TPFC for such a long time Unfortunately, most new visitors probably don't know what stealth means in the context of TPFC app...

Jarte Guy, perhaps you should try enabling sharing and full permissions then report back. Good catch, ashghost! Turning on network sharing with write permissions solves the problem. Apparently, sharing is not just for networks anymore. :D At the moment both are formatted as FAT, but I'm thinking ab...

How is it if you create a file on a Vista machine and then open in a different OS? Taking your files from Vista to XP (or below) is fine since XP doesn't worry about file permissions unless you set it up to do so. The flash drive file permissions problem is a result of Vista's aggressive new securi...

At the moment both are formatted as FAT, but I'm thinking about re-doing it as NTFS. Apparently that's supposed to be faster. Has anyone any thoughts on that? NTFS does have advantages over FAT, but bear in mind that files on an NTFS drive are not fully portable between Vista machines. If you creat...

http://portableapps.com/node/5188 http://portableapps.com/node/9909 Thanks, GeddichNixan. Since my last post I have run across a number similar programs, all of them mentioned in this forum at one time or another. Everything seems to fall into two categories: 1) Programs that isolate-apps-from-Wind...

perhaps you could list the non-portables that you need so we can help you better. Thanks, Garbanzo. Actually, I have a fair number of apps that need to be addressed, so I was hoping for a single solution to handle most of them. If I understand Dennis' post correctly, it sounds like you guys use bat...

I'm in the process of moving my computing environment to a 2.5" external drive. Ideally, the C drive would be little more than a clean Windows installation. As part of this effort I'm switching to portable versions of the apps I need wherever possible with the help of TPFC. Of course, there are...