Update: We found the error and fixed it. The site is now available again.

FindMySoft.com is running a program to certify shareware and freeware software.
We are pleased to inform you that your software Tag2find 0.10.2.5 has been tested on 10 Apr 2009 by one of our software engineers and has been found “SAFE TO INSTALL” on any computer. It has been granted the “SAFE TO INSTALL” certificate. This means that your software contains no viruses, spyware, adware, Trojans and backdoors and installing it poses no threat to the operating system.
We would also like to congratulate you for the quality of your product. It exceeds the quality standards of many other software products in this category.

In simple words: Thank you!

So, this one is out, now we need to turn to more positive prospects: While financial support of tag2find development has ceased, we still managed to get all the rights to continue with development in our spare time. We still believe in tag2find and won’t let it down that easily.

So how will we go on from here? The negotiations regarding the financing have taken away most time of the last months, that’s one of the reasons why we are running behind schedule that far. The new situation will not really improve this. We want to personally apologize to all our faithful users who are still bearing with us. Thank you guys for all the motivation you are giving to us via our forum or via e-mail!

At the moment we have to arrange quite a few things, especially the changed financial situation requires us to devote plenty of our time to other projects in order to earn a living and to go on with tag2find development. Thus, development unfortunately will be delayed further, I’m afraid. But I will try to keep you more updated than we did in the last few months via this blog.

A possible nice outcome of this situation might be: we are evaluating our possibility to open-source tag2find! We cannot be certain yet and we have to figure out several licensing issues around this, but we are working on this as well. At the moment we are struggling to figure out if we have the rights to release all of the source-code and/or which license is suitable and can be applied to all our code and all the libraries we are using. Some libraries (especially some Microsoft libraries) prohibits to be released as part of GPL-licensed code, so we have to figure this out thoroughly.

Thanks again for bearing with us and thanks for your ongoing patience!

Therefore we will change our development plans in two ways: first, we will work to provide an API as soon as possible. Second, we want to make it available for the current 0.10 version, despite our initial plans to provide new features only in the Next Generation. Reason for also providing the API for 0.10 is, that we will go into limited testing of Next Generation within the next few weeks, but it will be available to the public only later on, once we are pleased with quality. But we do want to provide developers sooner with the API, as we see how urgent it is demanded.

We will keep you updated on the API and provide a quick overview of the possibilities for other developers within the next week.

Some of you might have already seen photos of me in the tag2find kart race, since I was the winner of the girls race.

After getting a general overview I will support testing and quality assurance and be grateful for every suggestion or bug report!! Don’t hesitate and write me at contact@tag2find.com whatever is on your mind to keep the guys occupied!

So now you can subscribe our forum in your favorite feed-reader!

All the old forum data has been moved over to the new forum, therefore you should be able to login and post as normal. If you expect any problems, please let us know (send an contact@tag2find.com)! Thanks for your help.

Have fun!

In this release we fixed a lot of small bugs. Our 0.10 line is still supported for bug fixing, but major improvements will be added to the “Next-Generation” version.

New and noteworthy:

• Support for 120 dpi screen resolution (see also related article).
• The tag2find Windows Explorer context menu handler was not installed on all computers.
• Plugging in external NTFS-formatted USB devices did not add the volume name (i.e. “E:\”) to the filenames.
• .OGG is now in the lists of media files, allowing playback from the integrated Windows Media Player if the OGG codec is installed.
• Fixed a crash on startup if Windows Media Player was not installed on the system.
• Thumbnail preview of PDF files (if Adobe PDF IExtractImage Filter is installe, i.e. Adobe Reader is installed).
• Added “Check for Update” to notify icon context menu and “Help” menu in TagBrowser.
• The “Add Files Wizard” now allows specification of which files to import based on the file extensions (forum request).
• Several startup exceptions and fixes for hibernation problems (sorry, we could not eliminate all of them at the moment).

Technical Preview
We just want to remind you that this is still “Technical Preview”. tag2find became quite popular over the last time (and we really appreciate it, thank you folks!) and people expect performance we cannot deliver for the current release. Please stay patient with us, we will keep up working on it. Our main goal at the moment is to improve the usability, that’s what the “Next Generation” is about. We will then look into the performance issues.

Once more, thank you all for your great support!

To see how this will work, have a look at mywatchface.com

Like we said, we would like to give you something back for the time and effort you spend by improving tag2find.

The next step is to offer the next generation of tag2find to primar testers so stay in contact with us checking our blog to be one of the first testers of the tag2find’s next generation. There will be a lot of surprises …