I’m happy to announce that our currently released version 0.10.2.5 received the “100% CLEAN award” granted by Softpedia and is certified free of malware, adware, and viruses (I knew it, but now I can “prove” it :)).

Softpedia also published  an extended review of tag2find. Thanks for the great work (this also goes to all the other bloggers that write about us!).

So, I promised I’d try to keep you more informed from now on. Therefore I just want to publish a short note that we are going on with open-sourcing at the moment.

What has been accomplished up to now? Well. First: all websites and domains have been transferred to a server of mine, all is up and running (blog, website, forum).

Second, I started reviewing the code and libraries we used. It looks quite promising that we will be able to publish most of it under an open-source license. I am currently reviewing and investigating how to treat the situation where one cannot release some libraries under open-source but release the rest. I already contacted the FSF, but I hardly suspect they’ll write back because they for sure get lots and lots of such inquires and most of it should be covered by their FAQs and other documentation (remaining one problem: I am not a lawyer…).

Well, there is no easy way to say this for me, so I make it short: the company funding development of tag2find has decided to cease financial support due to reasons not under our control.

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!

Hi,

yes, we know we have been a little bit silent in the last few weeks…. ok, ok, I confess, months. I just wanted to jump in and calm all of you down who are worried about tag2find being alive. Yes, we are still here! We are focused on developing. tag2find NG is a very major rewrite, so it unfortunately takes some time. Just give us a little bit more time.

And thanks to all of you who have contacted us in the forum, the blog or via e-mail and offering your help. It is very much appreciated and we do all we can to deliver a product which has been worth waiting for!

After we were fighting with our old forum software we decided to switch to Simple Machines Forum. The new forum runs with higher performance and offers several new features, most importantly an RSS feed for the forum!

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!

Since we went online (right after Christmas 06) we received soooo much support from you, the users and a lot of news were written about tag2find on different websites. We are proud to present a map of all the different websites around the world who have expressed their opinion, given us feedback and critics and support our ongoing development. See how tag2find goes around the world.

For those of you we accidentally misplaced, please contact us at contact@tag2find.com.

If you followed our website, our forum, and this blog for the last view weeks, you will have seen a lot of hints to “Next Generation”. You may have wondered what this buzz is all about. Well, this article will give you a brief overview and why we here at tag2find are so enthusiastic about it.

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tag2find v0.10 is currently in the final stage of development and is now under heavy internal testing. We have scheduled the release for Monday, February 26th, 2007.

Thank you all for your patience!

Currently, we are working hard to hand out version 0.10 of tag2find with the following main features:

• Initialize tagging
• Drag & drop to external applications
• New file monitoring

Launch time is planned on Monday/Tuesday next week.

Austria, as several other countries in Western and Central Europe, is currently experiencing heavy storms. Unfortunately our main office in Hagenberg is currently in an area without power supply, because several power lines have been damaged by the storm. As a consequence we are currently cut off e-mails.

Therefore we do not receive any support queries and feedbacks from the feedback wizard. None of these mails, however, should be lost and will reach us as soon as the power and internet connections are restored.

We will keep you informed.

Update 2007-01-19 (08:00 CET): Power has been restored around midnight. All servers are up again and the delayed mails should come in within the next few hours.