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Classic Browser proceeds apace, v6.9 released [2021-04-13] (https://theclassictools.com/Changes.txt). Be forewarned, if you want to test it, that Classic Browser will by default clear your '% TEMP %', ' Prefetch ' and a couple of other ' %APPDATA% ' locations, as instructed by the ' cleanup.bat ' i...

webfork wrote:EDIT: Issue post requesting settings change: github.com/michelolvera/vs-ghostwriter/issues/29

Remark posted on the issue countering the argument that it's a new feature not fitting the developer's goals...

Been meaning to make a quick post about this player for quite some time -- I guess today will be the day... I haven't tested Dopamine , really, but it has consistently made it into top players lists around the web mainly because it can manage large music collections. Moreover, the UI looks cool, the...

Further reporting regarding UltraSurf found in a NPR political piece: An initial security audit of Ultrasurf commissioned by the State Department, however, reflected significant problems with the software, which was still relying on technologies that were considered cutting edge in 2013. The audit, ...

CudaText v1.131.0.0 released (changelog at https://cudatext.github.io/history.txt).

FYI, CudaText homepage changed to https://cudatext.github.io/ (previous http://uvviewsoft.com/cudatext/ now redirects here, too).

Topic update: as BeCyPDFMetaEdit is still drawing interest, despite its wewbsite being gone at the end of 2018, here are a couple of further information points still available about it. The program loads PDF documents (conforming to specification 1.6) and allows editing of several settings like the ...

Andrew Lee wrote:eg. swap Ctrl and FN keys if the BIOS doesn't support it.

Right, faced that nuisance in the past, too. Luckily, a custom bios update dealt with it.

Let me start with a stern WARNING about this program: be very, VERY careful with what you change with Scancode Map -- applying changes requires a reboot and I managed to lock myself out of Windows by changing a single key! With that out of the way, Scancode Map is still a very handy program in certa...

Caffeine (https://www.portablefreeware.com/?id=266) is one of the oldest TPFC database entries but has no official forum topic and is barely mentioned here in the forums (apart from indirectly at https://www.portablefreeware.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=25607#p25607) so this post is only meant to fix...

This is a little out of my depth but, with all the recent talk of virtualization, I think Vagrant is an avenue of exploration we should at least point out here at TPFC. Vagrant is a tool for building and distributing development environments. @ https://github.com/hashicorp/vagrant/ Vagrant is a tool...

Thank you for this tutorial, cornflower. If there's a need, I reckon the community will come in to fill the blanks.

Topic update: uutils v0.0.6 released (changelog and downloads at https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases). uutils is an attempt at writing universal (as in cross-platform) CLI utilities in Rust. This repository is intended to aggregate GNU coreutils rewrites. @ https://github.com/uutils/coreuti...

Ryochan DS4Windows v3.0.1 released (changelog and downloads at https://github.com/Ryochan7/DS4Windows/releases/).

Very old topic update: DOSBox last release was v0.74-3, from 2019-06-26 (see announcement at https://www.dosbox.com/). Ideally, 0.75 should have been released by now, but some bugs took a lot longer than expected. @ https://www.dosbox.com/ Apparently development is still going, as a patch for Linux ...

Topic update: Digikam v7.2.0 released 2021-03-22 {changelog at https://www.digikam.org/documentation/changelog/).

To the best of my knowledge and despite past pledges, still no straightforward info on portability.