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Post by GVRV »

larrybolt wrote: post #336
uptown wrote: post #217

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If you use Chrome, check out OneTab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

I love how OneTab works, and it was something I used very frequently. But one day, not sure why exactly my chrome profile folder (osx mac) got corrupted. I cannot give technical details about it really, but not a single one of the chrome addons I had worked any longer. And I tried to recover the tab sessions but was unsuccessful. If there is a feature OneTab is missing, it's to sync your tabs/sessions to a certain lo…

It provides an export as a text file on the 'One Tab' page in the right hand corner. I wrote a small Python script to parse this text file and upload all my tabs to Pinboard.

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Post by sage_joch »

A service that facilitates company matching of employee donations to non-political charities. Ideally, the service should make it as effortless as possible for all participants: employee, company, charity. This could be generalized into a kind of philanthropic social network.

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Post by aaronem »

andrewcooke wrote: post #352
aaronem wrote: post #324

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What is a "motion-sensitive sleep alarm"? One of those widgets that wakes you up at the most advantageous part of your sleep cycle that falls within a given bracket of time? ISTR seeing one of those a while back, in production, which was built on the wristwatch form factor and didn't need to integrate with an external device; if indeed that's what you're looking for, I'll see if I can turn it up and post info about i…

yeah, one of those (thanks). edit - knowing it was a watch i've found this - http://www.sleeptracker.com/ but if you have something simpler / less expensive / more attractive to my partner (less nerdy looking) i'd be interested. edi2 - ah, also http://www.axbo.com/pages/shop so i guess to correct my original post - something more like a simple, traditional alarm clock. with less obvious tech. but that somehow works t…

The Zeo Sleep Manager Pro [1] looks like probably your best bet. Unfortunately, Zeo closed its doors about a year ago, which may make it difficult both to find the product available for purchase in the first place, and to get support for it once purchased. That said, phone integration appears to be otherwise ubiquitous in the field, at least judging from the few minutes I've spent poking around Google and Amazon; that being the case, your choices may well reduce to either accepting phone integration and making the best of it, or finding a way to get your hands on an orphaned product and making the best of that.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Zeo-ZEOBP01-Personal-Sleep-Manager/dp/...

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Post by mzemel »

A website that lets you watch the second episode of many television shows. The pilot episode, I feel, is usually not indicative of the direction/feeling of the show, or is concerned with setting up the backstory, whereas the second episode sets the direction for where the show is going.

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Post by csears »

covercash wrote: post #133
donohoe wrote: post #107

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1 million more... Given the source is open, it may be more like curating a list of children's programming torrents and providing a delivery system for people to add their own child appropriate work. I wouldn't be opposed to ads but not the sort you currently find on kids tv hawking toys

What if it was a Spotify-like model. ~$4.99/mo unlimited streaming, money is pooled and then pay out a % to content owners based on # of plays each video gets? The more popular episodes earn more of the money.

That seems to be the direction Amazon is going with Kindle FreeTime Unlimited, also includes books and apps. Not the best library of content just yet, but it seems to have potential. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?&docId=1000863021

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Post by yellowbkpk »

nroets wrote: post #255

An app that shows me where my friends and family are. (Like Google Latitude used to do)

This functionality was moved to the Google Plus app. At least on Android, you can fire up the Google+ app and go to "Locations". Invite people to see your location and ask them to let you view their location, etc.

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Post by xur17 »

d0m wrote: post #206
gfosco wrote: post #162

I want to search for furniture, and other products, based on dimensions. My girlfriend and I furnished a new apartment recently, and had to be space conscious.. This spot next to the couch could fit a 10" wide table. It's not easy to search for that, yet the information is there. My original plan was going to use the Amazon API and take a search term and page through looking for dimensions that fit. I still think it'…

Taking a pic of your room and seeing nice furniture virtually added so you can easily test different styles.

In college, my senior project involved a 3d room designer using the Kinect and a laptop. You could position virtual 3d objects (couches, lamps, etc) in the room, and move the camera around to see how the virtualized items looked.

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Post by 1_player »

nacs wrote: post #149
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #12

Just for developers: Something that allowed you to change the IP your request resolves to with a modified URL instead of editing the hosts file, like this: 127.0.0.1:: http://mysite.com/ Benefits: Not as much work, not as permanent, you can use multiple at once, you can easily see where you are connecting. I think this is something web developers would pay a few bucks for. I know I would.

Localtunnel does this: http://progrium.com/localtunnel/

I had issues with localtunnel and I discovered ngrok: https://ngrok.com/

Also you get HTTPS out-of-the-box and can introspect the data transmitted over the tunnel.

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Post by gelstudios »

systematical wrote: post #232

I had an idea for a "plug and play" tor relay. This would be suitable for computer literate folks who are committed to privacy and such, but not necessarily up to installing linux and tor. Trick would likely be keeping this to around $50 or less. Thoughts?

One such appliance/distro is the "Personal Onion Router To Assure Liberty", there's even a raspberry pi version: https://github.com/grugq/PORTALofPi
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