Hi everyone, I released my PortiApps collection, full of applications for USB pens and memory cards, which I discussed in this post. It is out of alpha, and I’ve released a bunch of torrents with the applications in.
As promised, it’s available in three versions: lite, normal and pro. They range from 46MB to 296MB (due to OpenOffice.org). The lite version will fit on a 64MB pen, normal on 128MB pen and pro on a 512MB (ouch, just missed 256MB).
As these are large it would be great if you could seed the torrent or mirror these files. Hopefully you’ll enjoy it, I’ve made a chart of the apps below.
For easy download I’ve zipped all of these together, and the zip sizes are: PortiApps Lite is 24.7MB big, PortiApps is 44.5MB big and PortiApps Pro is 136MB big. The unzipped ones are: Lite is 46.5MB big, the normal one is 82.9MB big and the Pro version is 296MB big.
Overall I think this is a good collection of apps. I’ll be soon creating an official site for this, I’d like comments. The .torrents are hosted on MiniNova and TorrentSpy. I suggest you use the TorrentSpy ones.
Download torrents:
PortiApps Lite Beta
PortiApps Beta
PortiApps Pro Beta
Tags: usb pen, usb apps, usb, portable apps, PortiApps, usb stick, usb memory
You might remember my post moaning about all the press Apple gets; well I’m making another one about Google.
Most of us love and us Google but it does bore you when that’s all there’s to read about. For example in 24hrs there has been 4 Google related stories made it on the Digg.com frontpage. 3 of these are related to a new feature someone discovered in a Google sub-domain, which has now been removed by Google.
The thing is that if anyone blogs about a thing they’ve discovered, which they shouldn’t have, it gets shut down by the company. I mean we shouldn’t tell the whole world, but perhaps only a small group of people on a IRC chat or something like that.
I mean I must admit I do like finding out about the new tools Google are planning to launch, but I like other things too. I mean what’s so exciting about anything Google maybe planning to launch.
Clearly Google want the publicity though; or they would run all experiments on a domain not registered to Google Inc, but perhaps registered in an employees name. Make it obscure too like ykkdjnlfsngskjmfj.com .
With all this debate on Who Owns the Internet? I have an answer; me. The US, China and EU have as much of a right to the internet as me.
A quote from Mike Godwin, of the EFF
“I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she’s too young to have logged on yet. Here’s what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say ‘Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?’”
I don’t know – but this beginning to sound like a possibility. Countries claiming the internet is their’s is stupid.
Okay ICANN is an American company, and has some relation with the US government, but it’s doing an okay job. But does this mean that the US controls the internet, in my no. No one can control the internet, it would be too big a task.
The internet is merely a system connecting some computers together. If I wanted (and had the knowledge) I could go and make my own internet like Freenet.
At the end of this we’ll either have no internet or nothing will have changed. I hope it is the latter. The internet contains almost all human knowledge; for better or for worst. The internet isn’t territory you can claim, it’s thoughts that no matter how hard you try you cannot claim.
This site and domain for example is mine, not Britain’s. It’s private property, as is ICANN.
The USA could claim it has the most right to it as it paid for it. But then again the EU could say that it has the most nations backing it (25 countries) and then China could say that it has the largest population. None of these claims are good enough though.
I was digging today and I found an article about the Congress and how they are spending 3 billion dollars to keep Americans watching TV during your analogue switch-off scheduled in 2009.
Most Brits (around 60%) already have digital. We are switching over fully by 2012. A BBC and Sky partnership, called Freeview, offers free digital to almost every household in the country; all they have to do is pay a one off fee for a set-top box (starting from ?15) . The amount of channels is limited, about 40 TV channels and 20 radio stations, but for the money it?s a good upgrade from the 5 terrestrial ones. 7,000,000 Brits use Sky, a paid digital satellite service with loads of channels (we even get Fox News!).
I can?t seem to be able to get US digital usage, but you have so many channels why would you need digital?
In America you think the sales tax is really bad, it?s never over 8%! Throughout the EU there?s VAT. This is over 17%! Still think that 8% is bad? At least that 17.5% is generally included in prices, still I would like to be able to dodge it! Coming to think of it, it?s quite easy in the UK! Just buy things from Jersey via. the internet.
Hmm?. anything else to moan about? Ah! Us nerds can?t use all the special offers we get over the internet because we are in the UK. Oh come on! If we are willing to pay the postage why not?
This is just one of these posts I?m posting as I have nothing better to me doing ? I?ll try to write something better later.
Due to the fact people are liking loads of apps on a pen drive together I’m going to get in one the act. I’m making my own collection. Unlike most of these collections I’m aiming to get it working on most USB pens of most sizes.
I’m offering 3 versions – lite, normal and pro. The lite one is ~50MB big, normal ~85MB big and pro is 300MB big (OpenOffice.org). I’m thinking the lite one is perfect for 64MB or 128MB sticks, normal is good for 128MB or 256MB sticks and 300MB is great for 512MB and above.
Personally I only have a 128MB pen. I’m not sure when this project will be finished though, I need bug testers (to check it all works) and then beta testers. I’m also going to need some mirrors, as my web hosting isn’t big enough. If anyone knows of any mirrors who would be willing to host this I’d much appreciate it.
Currently the only bug I’ve found is that it doesn’t comply with ISO 9660 when I’ve burned a copy to a CD for my bug testers.
I’m not going to say too much, but it would be cool if you got excited over it. I’m planning to have it out of (private) alpha by Friday.
