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Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
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#102How about a proxy server I can use to block or partially block sites for myself? (Procrastination preventer) Since I'm not administering a corporate WAN, this should be lightweight and simple to use. It should let me set everything with a GUI. It should present the top 10 sites I visit as a list and let me block each with a click. The parital block feature can limit my use to 15 minute blocks or something like that.
Leechblock partially solves that I think https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4476
Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.
#103How about a proxy server I can use to block or partially block sites for myself? (Procrastination preventer) Since I'm not administering a corporate WAN, this should be lightweight and simple to use. It should let me set everything with a GUI. It should present the top 10 sites I visit as a list and let me block each with a click. The parital block feature can limit my use to 15 minute blocks or something like that.
I've been thinking about this one for a while, with half an eye to coding it up:
Mousehole or some other lightweight proxy with a list of sites. When you go to one of those sites, it redirects you to your "to-do" list; google notebook or rememberTheMilk or something with similar capabilities. There's a button to continue to your intended site, but you've got the reminders right there of what you really intended to do instead of spending time on a site you have marked as a time waster.
Could have priority markings and due dates integrated if it were a customized task list instead of google or RTM, and pop up the interstitial less often or less obtrusively when there's no important deadlines approaching, etc.
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#104For toll roads, some sort of in car item that will receive a short audio ad and play it. Thus using the ad money to pay my toll. I realize there are several issues immediately off the top of it, but it could be a viable alternative to having to pay tolls.
That is an interesting idea, however certain tolls (e.g. london city) have not the goal to earn money, but to keep people away. playing ads won't keep them away.
In that case, the device could output not an advertisement but a 45-second uninterruptible lecture about what too much car traffic does to the city.
(but who would voluntarily install that...)
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#105A visual dictionary/wiki for finding the names of obscure things. Users could submit definitions and pictures. They could also tag pictures with the names of related things so you could search based on objects that are commonly found near or work with the thing you're looking for. The picture would help you confirm you found the right thing.
For example, suppose you didn't know what the little plastic thing on the end of your shoelace was called and you wanted to buy more of them. You could search for "shoelace" or "end of shoelace" and find a picture of an aglet. Maybe even some ads to where you could buy a supply of aglets. Now, no more frayed shoelace ends for you, and life is a little better. :)
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#106An app that increases the number of hours a day has, e.g. makes time flow slower. That way I could accomplish more ;)
Here you go: http://bit.ly/ZyFm
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#107An app that increases the number of hours a day has, e.g. makes time flow slower. That way I could accomplish more ;)
People in other industries solve this sort of thing already. It sounds like some sort of drug would help accomplish this, but I have concerns about the health repercussions.
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#108So, many cities have bus systems and those bus systems now-a-days are usually GPS equipped for several reasons (notably that a central office can monitor the system and that the busses can announce ADA-compliant stop messages based on location without the driver being involved). I'd love to have something on my phone that would tell me where the next bus was on a cool Google Map (or other) and an estimated time to ar…
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#109Global Tabbing - I have a lot of windows open (as do you all i'm sure) and i'd really to be able to bundle them into one tabbed window in a Firefox stylee. Look at something like Coda (www.panic.com) and think instead of having all the apps built in to the app you just have a tabbed window container that you add app windows to that allows you to quickly switch from one to the other (eg. tabs for text editor,terminal,…
Try the tab feature of Fluxbox (www.fluxbox.org).
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#110Have this idea/started web design, but busy with work. It's a crazy out there possibly good idea or bad. http://fornicatur.com - a new way to meet people for well... Though tech could be white labeled for any topic - beyond theme of domain above (GPS locate hiking buddies in central park, people who like your favorite movie, tons of stuff... interesting new way to meet people).
Though tech could be white labeled for any topic [...]