A home for the legacy apps, prototypes, and projects from the old days.

Animatch is an app I wrote in a few hours for my eldest nephew Ben when he was 5 or 6.  He's 15 now.   It's a pretty basic matching style game intended for a 5 or 6 year old.  The images and sounds are poor quality, but it moves along so you you can try to beat the best times people have posted.   Best I recall is 4 seconds, submitted with a screenshot by someone long ago.  

Though it's old and quite basic, it's topped 115,000 downloads on download.com, and is also distributed through other sites that aren't counted as carefully, so it's definitely gotten out there.

I wrote OmniPing in 1995, after my second job where I worked as a network analyst who needed to find static addressed PCs and servers while rolling out a dynamic IP infrastructure (bootp, well before dhcp).   It's an IP address scanning tool that was quite popular in it's day.  That day, however, has passed now that everyone has dynamic addressing tools on their LANs.   

OmniPing had >100k downloads on download.com before I removed it in error.  After re-submitting it and starting the count over, it's almost in the 60k range again.  It's certainly antiquated now, but it won several awards for usability and best in class functionality back before the industry started focusing heavily on user experience design. 

A fortune 100 technology company purchased a global enterprise site license for it back in 2000, Manatee Software's first big sale!

OmniPing was the start of a long line of projects focused on batch processing and automation.  You'll notice some similarities between that and PhotoWham and many other apps written for clients that can't be disclosed.