How to get up-to-date using portable apps?

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Published on 2009-12-08T00:53:30Z Indexed on 2010/03/12 6:07 UTC
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Perhaps the major problem with portable apps is update them smoothly. Most portable apps lack of a good procedure to update them (maybe because many of them is not made to be portable).

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