Mac shutdown.

I have to wait for my laptop to completely shut down before I can shut it. I'd like it so that I can hit shutdown and close the laptop and it'll just do the work while it's closed.

A Pandora

for music videos.

Syncing capabilities for ipods

So when you go for a run with someone you can listen to the same tunes at the same time. Or you can sit in a silent room with someone and still be listening to the same thing. On your headphones of course.

An idea for last.fm

This idea doesn't come from me directly, but it was an interesting thought I heard from someone regarding last.fm. Last.fm tracks the songs and artists you listen to, but it doesn't have any statistics based on time listened.

Let's say you spend an hour at your desk listening to music. If that time was spent listening to punk music, you might go through more songs and artists in that time period than if you were listening to prog rock, based on the average song lengths in those genres. Over time, this would skew your stats, and while you might spend equal time listening to punk, your stats based on the number of songs will probably show you listen to punk a whole lot more.

Youtube shuffle.

Cuts to a new video after fifteen seconds. Listen, I could go all day.

Website shuffle.

Same idea as below, except it sends me to a random website and I can stay or I can leave or I can not pay attention. Whatevs, dog.

Tv shuffle.

You know how in car radios, there's that setting that allows you to hands-free surf radio channels? What's that called? Tuner? I don't know. Anyway. I want that for my TV. I can just put it on a channel, and every minute or two, it switches to a random channel, and it keeps doing that until I find something that seems interesting. I can luck into something I would never have clicked on otherwise. Anyway.

Model Rollercoaster Sets

Like model train sets, but with rollercoasters.

Smart Rings

Cell phones that measure the loudness of the area you're in, and then alter the ring volume accordingly, so it's just loud enough for you to hear.

Compliments of Jordan, PR extraordinaire

Borrow.

I don't need to buy a staple remover, I just need to use a staple remover. I wish there was a store where you could go in and borrow a stapler or a staple remover or a post-it-note or an envelope or a ruler for ten minutes instead of having to go all out and buying it and then it taking up space and you never using it again.

I want to turn my TV into a radio.

I like to go to sleep with my TV on to drown out my loneliness and despair. However, the flickering lights don't do me good. I want a 'sound-only' option. Yes, I want to turn my TV into a radio.

Measuring Tape Tape

Might take a little math, obviously, since it won't always start at zero, but I hate dealing with the measuring tape bending/retracting.

Another iPhone app

A digital compass, for those of us who are cardinally-challenged.

A collection of blogs.

Inspired by Ari's Brandcenter brief and Dave's comment. It would be nice if there was a group set up where we didn't actually have to post directly to this blog. For instance, everyone in here posts in their own blog, but they tag their post so that it would appear in this blog. So there's less management of blogs. To the Brandcenter thing, if the student/faculty/alums are a part of the group, the Brandcenter blog page would constantly update with the various people updating on their own blog. If that makes sense.