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Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by qohen »

dhimes wrote: post #7
bemmu wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is great, got to email the teachers about this.

Is it free forever, or free to try? When I need to diagram quickly, I use UMLet. But somehow I suspect that UMLet is the one he's complaining about.

No, Graphviz is truly free--it's open source, under the Common Public License Version 1.0.

And, since no one has described it here yet: aside from making pretty-pictures, the really neat thing about Graphviz is that it is declarative--you describe the nodes in your graph (which can include text, shape, color, etc.), specify the connections and voila--Graphviz does the rest.

Oh, and you can use it programatically too--there are libraries for many languages, so you could, e.g., have a user submit genealogy data and then spit back a pretty family-tree diagram.

Google around and you'll find various interesting things, e.g. this recent (12/08) article on using Graphviz + PHP to generate Oracle schema diagrams: http://oracle.phpmagazine.net/2008/12/drawing_er_diagrams_fo...

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by betageek »

rotw wrote: post #109
betageek wrote: post #89

Global 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).

Yep, that's what i need - just need that on OS X now...

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by cmos »

Custom video games (for non geeks). I doctored up a basic shooter game for my girlfriends birthday, replacing the backgrounds + all the characters with relevant images from her life. It makes a basic shooter game much more interesting when someone you know is attacking!

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by anthony_barker »

Service compare engine Service check - a cost comparison engine for various services with a mobile front end - average cost in your area. So when the mechanic says - it'll be $2000 for the break job - you know how many hours it should take and how much it should be

Re: Post a possibly good app idea that you have no intention of doing yourself.

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Post by run4yourlives »

mdasen wrote: post #99

So, 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…

http://www.translink.bc.ca/About_TransLink/News_Releases/new...

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Post by pavel_lishin »

limmeau wrote: post #104
guruz wrote: post #97

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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...)

Or perhaps just 45 seconds of a baby crying or nails on a chalk board?

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Post by pavel_lishin »

tocomment wrote: post #36

Sell sunscreen in little packets (like ketchup packets) that can fit in your wallet. That way you'll never forget sunscreen. Should I patent* this? * I hate patents.

I'm 100% certain that I'd find a way to make one of these explode when I sat down, covering my wallet, money and ID in a sticky mess.

Which would make it pretty tough to get into bars.

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