An encyclopedia of odors. Like the perfume scent strips in magazines, but for everything.
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#32A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas. I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.
Why? Isn't it easier and cheaper to run a VM?
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#33An encyclopedia of odors. Like the perfume scent strips in magazines, but for everything.
Does there currently exist a system of scent catogarization?
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#34Soulver for the web (http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/)
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#35A bookmarking service, that not only saves any "interesting" links that you visit but also saves the data in that link for future search. The service should let you specify topics that you are interested in and will analyze every page you visit (with the exception of blacklisted pages) and put it into the appropriate bucket (topic), for future reference. It should also index the PDFs and word documents that are read…
Except this part:
>> The service should let you specify topics that you are interested in and will analyze every page you visit (with the exception of blacklisted pages) and put it into the appropriate bucket (topic), for future reference.
Evernote does all of this.
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#36A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas. I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.
Why? Isn't it easier and cheaper to run a VM?
Not easier. You have to wait for the OS to load, login, find the app you want in your menu bar, etc. I think Wine just opens the app in you current desktop environment and it's presumably faster since it doesn't need to emulate the CPU.
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#37Programmer's laptop: A good quality, high performing, non-widescreen laptop with a 4:3 aspect rato. Why? With a taller screen, there's less scrolling and your eyes don't have to jump as much when reading from line to line. I would like to know if there would be a market for this and why manufacturers phased out 4:3 displays?
That doesn't allow 2 windows comfortably though which is what shoots dev productivity through the roof. Higher res big screen 16:9 would be better, but then you reach the weight limit.
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#38A dead simple way to remember where you parked your car and when you need to move it. Like this: http://jchendy.com/2014/04/10/dude.html
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#39A media browser for leveraging (browsing, and surfing) multi-terrabyte home media servers:
Problem: I've got 2TB of videos, music, and images on my hard drives, and I've found my available tools to be too low-leverage on managing this anymore.
Context: about 2 years ago, I've stopped the directory structure madness, and embraced search as first-order link for media files. As a byproduct of this, I notice I don't have a clear mental structure of what videos/music is downloaded to my computer anymore, and to where (good riddance!). Neither do I want it to; instead, I'd like to have a "youtube for local hard drive":
Basically, I'm looking for a local Media Browser application for windows: specifically, an app which allows:
* thumbnailed preview of all videos & images
* Automagically categorized based on all online, or within-file available meta-information
* With a built-in search
To perform the following operations:
* Preview a thumbnail on video files (similar to file explorer)
* Display categorized lists of all media available locally on my drives
* Channelsurf, similar to youtube: be able to start from one movie file, and have "similar" videos around it
* Double-clicking on the file to start mplayer
* typing the first 2-4 letters of the movie/image to instantly bring up the list of media with that part in it
While specifically not doing:
* Anything that requires me to touch any of the files in any way shape or form whatsoever
* Any upsale (I'm looking at you, windows 8 "personal videos"), advertising, or introduce any friction during interaction
* Bringing up any browsers: solution must be windows-native, and responsive (Specific things I've tried so far:
* The closest thing I can wave towards "want" is apple's itunes, and JRiver's media center; they both share the same weakness of not being able to use mplayer as playback engine
* Banshee on windows is unable to show video previews, have multiple stability issues, and can't use mplayer for double-click
(I've posted full details of this to http://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/questions/2646/media-b... a month ago, to no response avail, but getting upvotes, which evidences a market to be had for this )
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#40A paying Wine (winehq.org) that would work with demanding multimedia programs such as Adobe LightRoom or Sony Vegas. I would pay something like $100/year for such software that would keep up with every new version of its supported programs.
Take a look at CrossOver: http://www.codeweavers.com/