Portablefreeware contribution

Updated all these programs in my own collection and sent them on to the good folks over at portablefreeware.com.

The process continues.

Torrent now available

By popular request, a torrent is now available for the latest version (thanks Wes). Should offer at minimum between 30 and 50 k/sec download speeds.

If you already have a copy, please seed!

QJot fix

QJot is the Kitchen Sink's WordPad replacement, but the text by default looks nothing like WordPad -- who's text size I sort of like. Here's how to change it:

1. Go into the "qjot" directory inside the Kitchen Sink archive
2. Edit QJot.ini using any text editor (including one of several in the archive)
3. Change "FontSize=8" to "FontSize=10". If you have a high monitor resolution, you may want to increase this to 12 or even 14.
4. For a more text editor look, you can change "FontName=Arial" to "FontName=Courier New"
   

Future releases will have the font size set to 10.

Note that I set up CAFE to open "docpad" files using this program. So if you name a file with a ".docpad" ending, it will automatically come up in QJot. Other files, for compatibility, come up in OpenOffice.

Latest version is out!

Here's the latest-and-greatest: kitchensink-0.9.8.7. Instructions are here. Torrent should be available sometime today or tomorrow.

Notes:
This is a maintenance release over the previous version. The reason its so much smaller is that OpenOffice has cut down on the space their most recent release takes up and I replaced GNUCash, which takes up 100 megs, with something much smaller. I had no idea until I compressed the archive overnight.

Please give me feedback and enjoy!

Delays, delays

The current release is all set but I'm having some kind of mysterious error.  I apologize to those of you that have been waiting on this.  The breakdown:

• OpenOffice works fully.
  
• The autorun feature either doesn't work or doesn't work under VMware.
• The compressed archive takes up HALF the space of the previous one.  Since they both used similar compression levels, I'm looking into if something got deleted.  This is going to take time to iron out.
  

Programs added, subtracted, and updated

Added

• Everything is a terrific search tool that I added almost immediately to the archive. Anything faster than LookDisk is very welcome. More info on this program soon, as well as some customizations I figured out.

Subtracted

• Threw out the MLA generator. Programs like Zotero have killed any need for this.
• Replaced GNUCash with Money Manager Ex. Both programs are fully GPL'd and Money Manager is a little cleaner. I'm still not sure which I prefer but I decided space and fewer files was an advantage so I swapped.
• DeepBurner - didn't seem to work as well as other programs and certainly less updated.

Updated

• 7-zip
• SMPlayer
• xpass
• Bonkenc (NOT the portableapps.com version)
  
• Toucan
  

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