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Ever meet another Zuner on the street and want to send them a "hello" track or picture but don't want to make one of your own? Zunerama forum members Trastan and Elxx have solved this problem with a neat little web application they call the Zune ID Card Generator. The AJAX on the generator site seems to work better in Firefox than IE, but the resulting card looks the same in either. Here's one I just created:

To make your own, just enter your favorite genre, your Zune Tag, a little bit about yourself, and a tagline and hit generate. The result is a nifty jpeg that you can beam to other Zune owners on-the-go. I hope to get to try this out soon!

Fellow Zune Thoughts readers,

It's time for me to come out. I've been a lurker here for just over a year, contributing mostly to threads with titles like "I want free stuff" and "Apple is the worst company to ever create a media player," but I've had enough. It's time for me to do something positive with the time I have waiting for Zune 2.

A few of you have already read my thoughts on the Brooklyn leg of the Live at the BBQ tour (I still have my wristband next to my keyboard), and if you've tried to edit the Zune Wikipedia article, I've most likely reverted you (I'm an admin after all), but here's something you might not be aware of: I'm a senior in high school who has never before worked on a blog like this. I'm new to the tools, not the power; forgive me if the entire site goes down in the next few days.

When I'm not on the net, I'm listening to my darling brown Zune, and preparing the next day's school music selection.* In the past week, I've received two new Zunes—a black and a pink one—through Microsoft's Club Live promotion, and I'm especially excited to photograph all the boxes together (I'm borrowing a friend's white Zune box to complete the collection).

Leave any comments or questions in the thread, and I'll get right back to you.

Again, hi!

*P.S. Does anyone know of a free or open-source lightweight alarm clock app for WinXP that will allow me to set 6 different music alarms a day easily? Thanks in advance.