Codyssey news and updates

Happy New Year

Eugene Cuprin — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:58:00 +0000

Merry Christmas

Eugene Cuprin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 23:00:00 +0000

Dear friends,

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year!

May the coming year be prosperous and successful, full of happiness and joy!

Apps Depot weekly update #4

Eugene Cuprin — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:00:00 +0000

We did not issue the weekly update last Friday. It does not mean that there were no updates. On the contrary! See for yourself! Lots of apps were added, some were updated.

Happy 4th of July

Eugene Cuprin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:25:00 +0000

Dear friends,

May all that America stands for
touch your heart in a special way
this 4th of July... with Codyssey.

Apps Depot Weekly update #3

Eugene Cuprin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 13:11:00 +0000

This week Apps Depot acquired and updated some portable utilities. We do not cover all of new apps that were added these days. The weekly bulletin only informs on some of them. You can browse through hundreds of portable applications and get instant access to them with Apps Depot, which is available with CodySafe Sigma, CodySafe Protect, or CodySafe Solid Crypto.

CodySafe Protect Beta

Eugene Cuprin — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

We launch CodySafe Protect ^Betatoday. It was worth waiting till the date, because Beta means free and CodySafe means great...

CodySafe Protect is the software tool that prevents unauthorized access to your files by setting password protection to your flash drive and dividing it to several partitions. Your files on the protected partition will be available only after you provide correct password.

This partitioning process involves significant changes to the structure of the memory. It is worth mentioning that the industry of portable drives is very large and continues intensively growing. There are many vendors and manufacturers of USB flash drives. And therefore, there is a chance that the drive that is currently in your hands cannot be upgraded to the protected one. Never mind.We will offer you anothersolution soon. Codyssey continues development. Meanwhile – the free Beta release is open.

Those who were interested to set password on their flash drives, those who wanted to protect their files at home or at work and those who is willing to prevent access to their sensitive information, all of you are welcome to download and to install CodySafe Protect ^Beta.

More to Apps Depot

Igor Donskoy — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:00:00 +0000

This week was pretty fruitful. Here are more programs added to the Apps Depot:

CintaNotes - a lightweight and user-friendly PIM (personal information manager). CintaNotes can become an assistant in the daily task of organizing information, registering your own thoughts and ideas, for the history, quotes from famous people other than you, research data, curious facts, Wikipedia entries, you name it. PIMs can be found in the Apps Depot under Office - > Other Category.

Apps Depot weekly update

Eugene Cuprin — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 14:38:00 +0000

This week additions to Apps Depot included several useful portable applications that are useful mostly to those of you who deal with graphics and design.

Apps Depot novelties

Igor Donskoy — Wed, 26 May 2010 22:00:00 +0000

CodySafe Apps Depot was recently extended with new portable apps. We have noticed that the games section has gained the tremendous interest. It is quite clear that employees enjoy playing portable games rather than installing them to the workstation at work. It is obvious. Portable games keep scores and scenes on a flash drive, allowing user to continue playing at home from the same point. From the other side, in emergency (when the boss is coming close) user can always kill the running application and clear all history and traces with one “emergency” action. You can always click on CodySafe’s “Exit” or “Eject” button or even unplug the drive (though we do not recommend doing it) and all the games running from the drive will disappear along with all the chats of the instant messenger, web pages with browsers and all other applications running from the portable drive will disappear leaving no trace on the workstation. When at work you keep working… or at least pretend working.

So, since portable games are of the highest interest we have added some games to the Apps Depot, the essential feature of CodySafe Σ. Those of you who already possess Sigma may enjoy the feature right away.

Themes gallery started

Eugene Cuprin — Wed, 12 May 2010 22:04:00 +0000

We have started a gallery for CodySafe Themes. We should have done it before, we know. And we regret we did not.

But now you are welcome to visit the new gallery, and to download any theme you like there.. You are welcome to offer your Theme in the CodySafe forum. Most popular will be added to the gallery for download. We believe that the CodySafe community can estimate the true value of the work that you share.

We would like also to encourage artists, designers and every computer user to create a theme and to share it. We will provide a scene for your performance. You will be able to set the price and to charge money for your masterpieces. We are open to discuss this opportunity with all interested. Please feel free to drop us a line in the Contact Form.

The great new feature

Igor Donskoy — Tue, 11 May 2010 19:25:00 +0000

We have recently added the great new feature that raises CodySafe platform to another unbounded level. The feature allows instant access to the online collection of portable applications, download and installation of desired application with virtually one-click.

Hundreds of portable applications are constantly available for instant access, which means that user does not even need to install them all. User may keep the extra space on the USB stick for important files and documents. But when it turns out to be necessary it is a matter of few seconds to find application, to download and to install it on the USB flash drive.

Currently this feature is presented as the integral part of the CodySafe Sigma. It will be later added to other extensions of CodySafe.

CodySafe New Website

Eugene Cuprin — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

Dear Friends!

We are happy to announce that on April 28, 2010 we have launched another website, http://www.codysafe.com. The website is dedicated to CodySafe brand products - both existing and coming.

You are welcome to browse through the website and to learn about the product line. Feel free to get existing products and to read about products that we are currently working on.

Your comments and recommendations are highly appreciated.

We would like to offer products presented at the website for professional review. Bloggers and journalists of computer magazines and web resources are welcome to contact us for more details.

Another new version

Eugene Cuprin — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:00:00 +0000

The new version of CodySafe was released yesterday. We wanted to make a big News article devoted to this specific version 1.0.0135, but there is actually not much to write about. This version incorporates lots of very useful features and includes some significant changes in the program code. But the end-user will hardly notice them. Well, maybe just the link to the portable applications depot in the bottom of the main menu. It is much easier to get portable apps installed to your drive now. All rest changes are in the background.

We foresee some howl from the audience: “Boooo! Where is the promised password protection?! Where are nested folders and run as administrator features? Where is the encryption that we are expecting too long…”

We have to admit, that you are right. It took us longer than expected. But wait! Just a bit more! We are going to launch the next version with great features very soon… even sooner than you can imagine.

Anyway, before you hear about the next major update, we suggest using current version of CodySafe, which is obviously the best one.

The next one is coming! Stay tuned!

A new version is available

Igor Donskoy — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:33:00 +0000

Those of you who run CodySafe portable applications launcher under Windows 7 or Windows Vista will barely notice any difference. But those who are still using Windows XP certainly will. And we are sure that they will enjoy this new version of one of the most popular portable apps launchers.

Recently we have got some reports about GUI problems from users running CodySafe under XP. We have re-designed several controls of the launcher and now we are glad to inform you that problems are solved. No more blinking screens, no more unseen icons. We have applied serious changes to ensure almost same great experience of operating CodySafe under Windows XP as in Windows 7. You are welcome to download latest version and to enjoy using CodySafe on virtually any computer.

We would like to remind you that there are many ways to customize GUI and to change dull black skin and colors of the portable applications launcher to favorite color scheme even if you are running CodySafe under Windows XP.

All you need to do is to open Control Panel -> Themes and to select background image and/or colors. By the way, we have changed the default color scheme in the latest version to make it more Vista-like.

Just in case you find another problem please do not hesitate to report a bug. Your feedbacks help us making our CoySafe portable apps menu better. And special thanks to all of you who have reported bugs in the past.

Happy Valentine's

Igor Donskoy — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:07:00 +0000

Do not let the coming Valentine's Day be one of the least romantic days of the year as it used to be last time. Yes you heard me correctly. The majority of men act like robots, purchasing flowers and chocolate for their sweethearts because that is what everyone else is doing. Most of people celebrate the day out of obligation rather than celebration.

That's the time to break through this vicious circle. That's the time to express your feelings and to tell your sweetheart about your real love.

Hey men, let her sense your love not only on the February 14, but all the year long. And you, pretty ladies, why won't you let him feel the same in a most creative way you can?

Here is a way to celebrate Valentine's Day a bit more romantically and creatively. Just send your beloved one a new theme for the best portable applications launcher, CodySafe designed especially for this occasion. Your darling did not install CodySafe launcher on a flash drive yet? Just make a little gift - install CodySafe menu with Valentines Theme on her USB drive. That's a sweet present, isn't it?

And of course don't forget to send your sweet a box of selected chocolates

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Happy New Year!

Igor Donskoy — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 12:58:00 +0000

Downloads are back

Igor Donskoy — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:38:00 +0000

All downloads are back, now in test mode. You are welcome to download all you need from our portable applications section and please let us know if you notice a broken link or if download is too slow. Download Portable Applications to launch them with CodySafe.

Kindly send us your report if you experience some problem downloading files or accessing the pages.
Thank you in advance.

Sincerest apologies :(

Igor Donskoy — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:48:00 +0000

Dear friends!
Here come problems again...

We have really counted on the Dropbox… but they withstood only for two weeks... Due to immeasurable interest to our products and due to extremely intensive traffic the Dropbox has dropped us down. We are so sorry for the inconvenience.

Hope this is a temporary problem. We are working to find a suitable solution and believe that all links of our website will be back soon.
Meanwhile, those who are interested may download our core applications from the CNet mirrors:

Freeraser: http://download.cnet.com/Freeraser/3000-2144_4-10909403.html
CodySafe: http://download.cnet.com/CodySafe/3000-18514_4-10913425.html
CodySafe Admin Pack: http://download.cnet.com/CodySafe-Admin-Pack/3000-18514_4-10968703.html
CodySafe CommPack: http://download.cnet.com/CodySafe-CommPack/3000-18514_4-10969154.html

Unfortunately our portable applications are not available at the moment. Please accept our apologies. We are doing all possible and beyond to solve this problem. Stay tuned!
We will highly appreciate if you can advice a reliable file sharing or storage service for realistic fee with high traffic capabilities. Please leave your comments here, write in the Forum or send your recommendations over the e-mail. Thank you in advance!

We are back... With Dropbox

Igor Donskoy — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:05:00 +0000

Dear friends,

Some of you could notice that instead of normal content of our website the frustrating note “Account suspended!” appeared. Yes, the hosting provider decided that our portable apps launcher is too popular and the website attracts too many users. They also assumed that portable applications consume too much traffic. Therefore they refused to continue services. It is quite reasonable that promised “unlimited” traffic appears to be slightly limited when one really needs to satisfy the demand for portable applications and portable apps launcher. That could be annoying, but from the second view it strictly demonstrates how popular our website is. When a bootstrapping start-up is selecting a hosting for its website the price is one of most defining selective criterions. Low-cost hosting turns a glitch when popularity of your resource grows.

We were forced to look for solution to store portable applications that will not overflow the traffic capabilities of the hosting and from the other side will not cause delay. Thanks to the Dropbox we are able to continue operating without spending a fortune for the hosting. Dropbox provides 2Gb of free space, direct links, downloads resuming and a lot of other features and advantages. We beleive it is quite enough to keep all our portable applications and suites and to store all versions of CodySafe portable apps launcher.

From now on, all the resources-consuming primary downloads will run through the Dropbox. We hope that you will feel no difference and no inconvenience, delay or failure. Our tests demonstrated that the download runs even faster than it was before.

We have transferred all download files and checked the links. But there is always a space for errors when you move such a big volume of data in such a short time. We will be grateful if you try to download our portable applications suite or portable applications menu and report broken links or failures that you stumble upon while browsing through our website.

Thank you in advance and sorry for inconvenience.

Merry Christmas!

Igor Donskoy — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:01:00 +0000

Dear Friends,

Christmas is just around the corner and it is the time for us to thank you all for your support and attention through 2009.

This year was challenging for our team, but we have done a lot. We have launched several products. We have improved CodySafe and it really became a famous portable applications launcher.

You, our friends supported us and helped us to make our products even better. You translated them to more than 20 languages, you have found bugs and you have sent us your suggestions and recommendations. We are grateful for your support and we will continue doing our best to deliver best products.

May the coming year 2010 will be even more prosperous and successful!

We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas.
We wish you a merry Christmas, and a happy new year!!!