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by bitcoin
Mon Mar 25, 2019 6:41 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Redshift Tray
Replies: 6
Views: 17292

Re: Redshift Tray

now up to v1.8.4 - (Feb 13th, 2019)
by bitcoin
Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:22 pm
Forum: Freeware That Are Not Portable
Topic: Bluebeam-vu PDF viewer
Replies: 12
Views: 18968

Re: Bluebeam-vu PDF viewer

All that for a mere PDF viewer? Compare the footprint with Sumatra 's, e.g... :roll: lol ... I had to go an look: even the notoriously bulky Acrobat Reader lists a requirement for only 380MB of available hard-disk space. So they're winning that race by quite a margin. that's what i was gonna say, A...
by bitcoin
Sun Mar 24, 2019 9:07 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Great example of commercial software
Replies: 9
Views: 15907

Re: Great example of commercial software

A full license, for all your machines, costs $45.
i like this part - should be able to have licenses for 5+ machines and for lifetime also, then if you find the program useful after say 5 years maybe donate another $25-$50 or so

too many software companies want to nickel and dime you
by bitcoin
Fri Mar 22, 2019 2:40 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Falkon (lightweight web browser; formerly Qupzilla)
Replies: 2
Views: 8635

Re: Falkon (lightweight web browser; formerly Qupzilla)

reminds me of Otter Browser had to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2015 Redistributable no easy way to prevent 3rd party cookies that i can see other than that its decent would be nice if these browsers had a built-in element blocker or hider without having to install an add-on uBlock Origin provides a...
by bitcoin
Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:37 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Midori - an LGPL WebKit web browser
Replies: 20
Views: 39916

Re: Midori - an LGPL WebKit web browser

Midas wrote: Fri Mar 22, 2019 8:31 am
Disclaimer: There’s currently no working build of the latest WebKit2 for Windows or MacOS so there’s no binary release for these systems for now.

Has this changed?
oops, i saw that their blog was active and assumed...
by bitcoin
Fri Mar 22, 2019 7:55 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Midori - an LGPL WebKit web browser
Replies: 20
Views: 39916

Re: Midori - an LGPL WebKit web browser

project is active again
by bitcoin
Wed Mar 20, 2019 3:19 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Ant Download Manager
Replies: 2
Views: 11758

Re: Ant Download Manager

Portability Portable version is not available, but portability is maintained and it is very easy to do. Install once AntDM, copy the installation folder on the flash drive. After starting on a new computer AntDM itself must make own settings and install add-ons for the browser. similar in this way ...
by bitcoin
Wed Mar 20, 2019 9:25 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: LPF (Long Path Finder)
Replies: 14
Views: 28857

Re: LPF (Long Path Finder)

webfork wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:27 pm
TheGuyInShades wrote: Wed Mar 13, 2019 4:29 pm ... does anyone know where the rest of the stuff from SoftwareSpot can be downloaded?
Unfortunately not. I wish I'd thought to mirror his site somewhere - he had a lot of great stuff that was all open source.
he had over 4000 posts, he just disappeared?
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:23 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: A couple of free portable games
Replies: 11
Views: 24166

Re: A couple of free portable games

wow this is an old thread

i noticed that Haller has lots of games over at Portable Apps, too many for me to ever try
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:17 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Discussion
Topic: Lesser-known advantages of portable software
Replies: 6
Views: 10996

Re: Lesser-known advantages of portable software

one of the disadvantages i've thought is that the portable programs won't properly update themselves to their portable location but i haven't actually tested it out is this the case? does anyone know? also, i notice that laptop computers i've bought the last few years have the HDD partitioned into &...
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:11 am
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Just a little statistic
Replies: 118
Views: 198908

Re: Just a little statistic

webfork wrote: Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:38 pm
bitcoin wrote: Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:47 pm it is appreciated by me, fwiw
Thanks. I can't speak for anyone else, but I've gained way more from my work on the site over time than I've put in.
are you sure? you put a lot of work in here

its good to have an offline life too
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 19, 2019 5:47 pm
Forum: Chit-Chat
Topic: Just a little statistic
Replies: 118
Views: 198908

Re: Just a little statistic

seems like its about 5 people that do about 90% of the work

it is appreciated by me, fwiw
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 12, 2019 5:48 pm
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Advanced Onion Router - anonymous network connection tool
Replies: 21
Views: 60769

Re: Advanced Onion Router - anonymous network connection too

Hawk wrote: Wed Nov 08, 2017 4:02 am Is there any way to exclude certain sites? I want to activate it only for Twitter and Facebook, but disable it for Portable Freeware.

use a separate browser for twitter and fb and run that browser thru AdVor
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 12, 2019 12:50 pm
Forum: News & Announcements
Topic: Discussion/critique of current anti-bot strategy during sign-up
Replies: 26
Views: 76665

Re: NEW USERS PLEASE READ!

@SYSTEM, what is the logic for having questions that nobody can answer? It indeed blocks spammer but actual users too, so at that point why not completely disable the login form after a few failed attempts? I got these questions too and had to google up the result here. Is that what's intended, tha...
by bitcoin
Tue Feb 12, 2019 8:50 am
Forum: Portable Freeware Submission
Topic: Path Length Checker 1.1 (.NET)
Replies: 1
Views: 7088

Re: Path Length Checker 1.1 (.NET)

moved to Github and now at v1.2

https://github.com/deadlydog/PathLengthChecker

GUI is now resizable