Archive: Things I Want

Setting all the clocks

Friday, April 11, 2008

Here are all the clocks I have to reset twice a year for daylight-saving time: (more…)

Special icon treatments in the Mac Finder

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

Two things I want for icons in the Macintosh Finder:

  1. Color-labeling icons in the Finder is OK — but I wish applying a label would wash the whole icon in color or surround it in a colored halo so that it were even more emphatic.
  2. And speaking of emphatic, I wish I could adjust the size of individual icons in any window (not just change the size of them all).

Air traffic visible in Google Maps

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

I wish that when viewing Google Maps, I could see civilian aircraft when they’re located overhead (derived from the open air-traffic-control data). (more…)

Digital fridge door

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

I want a refrigerator whose entire front surface is a digital display, programmable to show pictures, text, websites, anything.

All I Want for Christmas

Monday, December 17, 2007

Here’s what I really want: a Christmas album from Buddy and Julie Miller.

Flash-drive-driven car radio

Friday, April 20, 2007

I want a car audio system with a USB port that will play music that’s stored on a connected flash drive (in a specified folder or whatever), giving me options to play the music in different ways (by album, artist, randomly, etc). Ideally it would also have a small display to show embedded album art.

Cell-phone plotting

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

I want to be able to authorize a user or users to view an online map showing the current (or last known) location of my cell phone.