Creative Idea Shortage
Come, please, and join the chat if you have a really good creative idea. No offense to the regular chatters, but it's growing stale.
I'm going to mix up the time I do my coding tomorrow as I took the day off to get some errands done. I'll be on at 15:00 GMT!
Tonight I wrote a simple application that can keep an eye on servers that you are in charge of watching. It's most likely only useful for web and sys admins. It has a handful of supported connection types, and can be downloaded from the download blog.
Enjoy!
posted by Unknown @ 12:17 AM
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15 Comments:
I would like to find a better way to transfer my downloaded podcasts.
Maybe a windows service that could detect the 'correct' usb device being plugged in and automatically downloading them from my computer to this device which right now is just an sdio card.
If you wanted to get fancy have a countdown popup window that would allow the user to choose which ones they would like to download. If nothing was chosen before the countdown finished then download them all.
Maybe even doing the same type of thing if a the 'correct' wireless client is found on the network. Negotiate and download to that device.
Of course on the client side you would have to have someway to clean up incomplete downloads.
Hmmmm.... just brainstorming.
Even if we trimmed this down just a file transfering application that could handle via local directories, network directories, or even FTP.
I'd really like to chat, but the link "appearing at 15:00" thing really confuses me. It's currently 15:30, but no link: I have to show up EXACTLY at 15??
Confused. Could you just leave a link to the chat?
This is a really cool project, btw. Wish I could get more involved somehow. HOw much time do you spend coding the app? Are you a college student, developer, what? What's your coding experience?
The IRC channel is : irc.freenode.net #thesoftwarejedi
Something I've always wanted to write but never got round to it was an app for windows that makes the middle mouse button work like in Linux. So you highlight text then press the middle mouse button to paste what you've selected without overwritting what you have in the clipboard.
Just an idea thrown in the pot.
Steve
How about an app that runs in the tray to grab and store urls with export/sync capabilities. With a simple editor to add descriptions.
There are heaps of ideas in the comments of your earliest post(s) how can you be running out?
Don't know if this is your cup of tea, but I would pay for add-on to any scheduling app that allowed me to automatically factor in travel time to someplace. Some more mature calendar apps have a place for adding "location", but if I could also add in travel time, then the app could add a travel buffer before my appointment to my schedule. From there, all kinds of enhancements are possible, with the app noticing where I am and where I am going and using a built-up db of travel time to place the travel buffer on the calendar. It could mashup with google to calc travel time to a restaurant, etc., etc. Just trying to get my calendar realistic, my life more sane, and my arrivals more timely... ;-)
I would like a file sorter based on (simple) rules.
There is a Mac app that does this, but I no longer have the link. I'd like it for Windows. Basic idea:
You provide a folder to watch, and 1 or more rules like:
if extension = mp3 move to (other folder)
if filename matches *colbert*.* move to (other folder)
Along with a few basic options like what to do if a file already exists, you've got a killer app :-)
Here's an idea: *so* many programs that should be implemented as system services in widows are instead implemented as something that runs in the tray. Often these are monitoring apps that typicaly run on a server and since it's in the tray requires the server to be logged on localy which is against best practises.
The optomistic side of me wants to believe that this is because there is not so much examples of how to implement a service properly. I think it would be great to see you do an example system service with a companion control app (gui or command line). A nice functionality would be a service that returns a piece of information. Maybe it could be one of the simple TCP services like TimeOfDay, CharGen, QOTD, or maybe a piece of system info like amount of RAM installed or CPU speed or something. Maybe it would use UDP instead? The control app would allow you to change which piece of info would be returned and maybe what port the service is listening on. To access the information one would simply telnet to the port and the service would return the info and disconnect. Alternatively, the communication could be proprietary and there would be a little client app.
Sorry, am unable to use IRC so I hope that you will see these suggestions here. I would love to see an encrypted notepad type app that will sync with itself between pc's. Also would love to see an app that solves cryptograms. There are several apps that can do limited solve functions like making suggestions based on letter frequency but I want something that would take that a step further and compare the results againest a dictionary file and try to verify the results. Several simple cyphers fall victim to letter frequency analysis but there are no current softwares that exploit this weakness to its fullest. You could further use other methods besides letter frequencies like dinomes, trinomes, frequencies of starting letter, even enter possible key phrases for vignere and one time pad type cyphers or a brute force dictionary type approach if other methods fail. Obviously, this method would not work for RSA or any other computer encryption methods but for simple cyphers, there is nothing that works fully to decode them. Ok, maybe that is too big an undertaking for a day but I think there are several potential ideas within the realm of encryption and conversions that aren't fully realised. Love the project and best of luck.
I hope that you continue developing Jedi Concentrate. In my experience, there is nothing that does what it does as well as it does. (Ghoster seems very slow by comparison.) I'd like to see a nicer system tray icon, or at least an icon that will stay hidden. (I mentioned these in a comment on your "Day 10 -Jedi Concentrate" post.)
It seems as though you made this program as an exercise of sorts -- I hope you realize though that you've made something of *tremendous* value to many Windows users. Coming on the heels of Dark Room and WriteRoom, it hits the real need to minimize distractions when working at the computer. It's part of the zeitgeist! : )
So I hope you do some more with the program. As they say on the Internet, "I would pay money for this." I really would.
Thanks again.
OK, here's an idea...
Notice many of your apps have taskbar icons. My tray is filled with them. There may be open source tray managers, but I haven't found on recently.
I'd like a utility which collects all the app taskbar icons you specify, and collect them into one taskbar icon. When you click on the one icon, it would present a vertical bar of all the taskbar apps/icons you have open in it. When you move your mouse and hover/click on any of the icons in the stack, it would behave just as a normal taskbar icon does if it were out of the stack.
I'd call the app "StackBar". That would be a killer, hopefully simple app.
You can do it!
JP
App Idea:
How about an application that does the following:
1.) User selects text or an image and copies it to the clipboard.
2.) The application would allow the user to create a new file (.txt or .jpeg depending on if it is text or an image) by selecting "Paste as file" when you right click in Explorer.
I would like an app that displays my IP address information in real time, preferably on the desktop. Here's the reason: I always put my home computers into standby when I'm not using them. When I wake up the computer, it takes a little while for the computer to re-aquire the network address. I usually open a browser and keep clicking "refresh" until the page connects. It would be nice to have an indication of when the network connection is live.
I'd love to see an application for "GTD" Getting Things Done, based on the book by David Allen or some sort of To-do list that really motivates and organizes one's work.
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