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NameTag comes home…

Gus — Sat, 03 May 2008 14:59:45 +0000

Thanks to JWD, the long lost little utility I wrote in 2000 is now once again available. For those that ended up on this page looking for it, just head straight over to the download page to get it. For those that don’t know what NameTag does, it’s just a tiny Win32 C++ application that runs displays the computer’s name on the desktop transparently. It’s been handy for folks who have to manage many machines on a switchbox/labs/VMs/terminal server sessions.

Amazon — Doing music downloads right

Gus — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 05:04:14 +0000

No DRM and cheaper than any other I’ve seen. Check out Amazon’s new MP3 download service. I just bought a great album for $6.99 and was able to immediately copy it over to my main and backup music libraries without having to burn a CD and rip it before storing. Good stuff–highly recommended.

NameTray is now available–again

Gus — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 06:44:33 +0000

Thanks to Jared, who responded to my recent post about having lost the source and binaries for this little tool, NameTray is now available once again. You can download the binary from here. For being such a simple little app, it’s sure been surprising to me how many people find their way to this site and search for it only to come up empty. It’s back now. Thanks again Jared.

NameTag is still missing though. If anyone has it still, please send it my way and I’ll post it again as well.

NameTray and NameTag Software

Gus — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 04:36:57 +0000

The nice little SearchHistory WordPress plug-in has helped me realize there are a few folks coming to my site in search of a couple of apps I wrote years ago called NameTag and NameTray. They were similar to the UpTime apps except that they displayed the computer’s name instead of the system’s up time.

Unfortunately, I’ve lost both of those apps and can’t find the source code for them anywhere either. I searched a few times to see if anyone was still hosting them but came up empty. If you still have a version of it, please let me know and I’ll get it back up on this site since it’s clear some still find it useful. In the meantime (which might be forever), this post at least should come up for those who search for either app instead of the previous “no results.”