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I'm starting a new blog called Techno Bliss at wordpress.com.
I just stumbled on the following:
Auto-Save Forms
This script saves all text in forms to a cookie for you as you type. If you any reason you lose the data in the form (eg your PC crashes, your session expires, etc), you can click the "Repopulate Form" button and your text will be restored.
Which seems like a good way to implement my form data saving proxy idea.
I just stumbled on the following:
SANDISK SHIPS SD CARD THAT COMBINES 256MB
FLASH MEMORY AND WI-FI COMMUNICATIONS...
which is a step toward my recently posted idea.
Imagine this situation: You are at a meeting, someone asks for a card, you open your wallet pull out an individually wrapped business card, you open the package and notice that the card is blank, you write your name and number on the card. Over the next 5-10 minutes your logo and everything else show up on the other side of the card due to light reacting with a special invisible ink!
Another open source idea :) why not create a compact flash (CF) card which behaves as if it's a memory card to the hosting appliance. It would actually mount a remote file system over WiFi. It could have a reasonable amount of local memory that would function as cache, but eventually all data would be stored on a remote system.
I wonder if anyone has created (I have googled and not found this) a personal proxy server that saves the results of web post and get requests. This would be great for folks who write long emails in yahoo/hotmail etc, click send and then something bad happens, screwey net connection, etc and they loose the whole email! This is the bane of net cafe operators the world over. A simple solution would be to pass all web traffic through a local proxy which saves form data either for a configured period of time or maybe a set number of requests back... Then allow folks to recover the form data, even if they have to copy and paste, at least they won't have lost that email that took 2 hours to write :)
Simple idea... use Basian (or similar) filtering to classify newsfeeds (see Feedster, FeedDaemon, etc) Basically you just need to keep track of a similar number of news stories that you are interested in vs. ones that don't do it for you... Train the filter with this information and (then let it rip on classifying your news items for you.)
You end up with very high level control based on the feeds that you subscribe to, and then much finer control based on filtering... Seems a little better than the categorization thing folks are doing now... mostly you probably don't care what category a news item is in, if it is interesting...
Not sure if anyone has patented this or not... If not, I hope this puts the idea out into the public domain:
Combine wireless networking and GPS adapters into a single unit. This can be done on any portable device (CompactFlash/PCMCIA for example.)
That's it.. I can't beleive I haven't been able to find this product already, but seems like a really good idea. Can be used to find networks close to your current location, to keep track of where you are when certain network events happen (like when you receive certain emails or when you notice a particular network.) Loads of folks use a wireless adapter and a GPS... why not combine them into a single unit!!! Why not combine cell phones with GPS too.. infact put all three things into a single pluggable device!