Here are all the clocks I have to reset twice a year for daylight-saving time: Continue reading “Setting all the clocks”
Special icon treatments in the Mac Finder
Two things I want for icons in the Macintosh Finder:
# 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.
# 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
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). Continue reading “Air traffic visible in Google Maps”
Digital fridge door
I want a refrigerator whose entire front surface is a digital display, programmable to show pictures, text, websites, anything.
All I Want for Christmas
Here’s what I really want: a Christmas album from Buddy and Julie Miller.
Flash-drive-driven car radio
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
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.