8th July 2004 - Site is now non-I.E. browser friendly!!
After a rather steep learning curve with DreamWeaver (and a lack of sleep!), JohnnyFoster.com is now officially non-IE browser friendly - so if you're using Firefox or similar, you should now be able to see the site (almost) as originally intended - rather than a jumbled mess.

There's been a serious amount of re-working in the background so if you do noticed anything that doesn't appear to be functioning correctly, please let me know...

9th August 2004 - NALalyse Beta 3 now available for download...!
As well as fixing many known bugs and increasing general resilience, this new version of NALalyse also contains various functionality enhancements and new reports.

New reports include 'Registry entries', 'FIL files' & 'INI files', also new is the 'Application Flags' reports giving a summary of each applications Flags including 'Run Once', 'Distribute Always', 'Prompt for reboot' etc.

Go to the NALalyse Downloads section for screen shots and to download

27th November 2004 - BeTrayed! Beta 1 available for download...!
The downloads section now contains the initial Beta release of BeTrayed!, a small utility to allow the user to easily launch applications, documents, URLs or folders from their own custom icons in the System Tray (aka Notification Area)

BeTrayed! is great for system administrators who wish to deploy a standard set of System Tray shortcuts. Various aspects of BeTrayed!'s behaviour can be controlled, including whether to allow access to the Help and Exit choices on the right-mouse pop-up menu.

Go to the BeTrayed Downloads section for more information and to download

12th December 2005 - NALalyse v1.2 now available!
As well as enabling NALalyse to correctly handle Trees with aliased OUs, this release also adds a little more functionality, improved reporting and a plethora of minor bug fixes and cosmetic improvements, including;

- The ability to filter the Issue reports by particular issue types
- The ability to save the current application selections for use another time
- Direct hyperlinking from the FIL file reports to Microsoft DLL help or Google
- High-lighting of user specified files on Issues reports
- Even greater resilience, with improved error logging
- Horizontal scroll bars now behave as expected on all reports!
- A multitude of small bug fixes and cosmetic tweaks

Go to the NALalyse downloads section for screen shots and to download..

10th July 2009 - Ticker Tape v1.0 now available!
Ticker Tape is an easy to use and intuitive way for Help Desks to quickly and easily 'broadcast' different messages to users at multiple remote sites in a non-intrusive way.

Great for proactively advising users of system issues and keeping them updated as developments occur, avoiding unnecessary calls to the Help Desk to re-report known issues or query the current status, allowing the Help Desk to carry on servicing the usual stream of incoming 'Business As Usual' calls

Go to the Ticker Tape downloads section for screen shots and to download...

1st November 2009 - BeTrayed v1.1 now available!
A long overdue update to the beta version I originally released at the end of 2004! The basic functionality is just about the same as the original version, but it's been virtually re-written internally and is generally more resilient and better at automatically determining the most aesthetically pleasing icon to use in the System Tray for any specific application or document.

Go to the BeTrayed downloads section for screen shots and to download...

1st July 2005 - NALalyse v1.1 now available!
After much work, the next version of NALalyse is now available for download - along with the expected bug fixes and cosmetic tweaks, NALalyse v1.1 sports some important enhancements including;

- The ability to NALalyse all the applications in a Tree in just two mouse clicks!
- Improved search tool, including predefined searches such as 'all IP addresses'
- Additional reports, including association detail by user or application
- Identification of even more NAL related issues!
- Improved resilience
- New report sorting options
- Quick and easy submission of problem streams to johnnyfoster.com

Go to the NALalyse downloads section for screen shots and to download..