anappaday.com — A software developer claims he will write a new application every day for an entire month in his spare time. Apparently he needs ideas for little apps that will be useful. He starts this crazy quest on September 15th, so submit some ideas now.
Sep 12, 2006 View in Crawl 4
skipjackerSep 12, 2006
Will you be checking the code into sourceforge?
jguy584Sep 12, 2006
A Firefox plugin that when you highlight a word/phrase you can right click it and choose to search either wikipedia or google for that term or phrase. Oh and of course that search will come up in a new tab :-D
locuesterSep 12, 2006
Ever better, I'm married with 2 kids..... ;)I plan on each app taking between 2 and 6 hours. Won't be too bad. I'll save the easy one's for busy nights...
2wrongsSep 12, 2006
@lpcustom Task Scheduler works fine for really simple things, but starts to fall down when you try and do something complicated (IMO). There's also the AT command, but I think it's easier to manage cron files.@Locuester: All it needs to be is a service that checks a config file every x minutes (5?). Then run whatever program is specified in the file. I'd be content to open/edit the file in notepad, rather than any fancy commands to add jobs. The file format should be more or less like this:<a class="user" href="http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html">http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/newbie/unix/cron-1.html</a>Optionally it could write a success/fail log.
cdlavalleSep 12, 2006
There are a million of these--check sourceforge.net and freshmeat.net
thekilldoctorSep 12, 2006
one word: HAL
funvillSep 13, 2006
I use for all my reminders and todos <a class="user" href="http://www.codeproject.com/tools/todolist2.asp">http://www.codeproject.com/tools/todolist2.asp</a>
cablitoSep 13, 2006
As much as I´d love to, I can´t convince my money-dependant body to write free code.
katyushaSep 14, 2006
As we're apparently in the windows world (C# and all that) how about a task scheduler that's integrated with the outlook calendar? Manage tasks in outlook, view the results etc. It should be so refined that it could run without outlook of course, and could have options to run different/alternative tasks if outlook or is not running, if the task could not be run, send reports etc
sineappsSep 17, 2006
How about an application that can switch different IP settings for internal LAN.Like I move my laptop around quite a bit, and need to set different static setting depending on where I am. Wireless does this, mac does this (with locations) but my poor xp laptop doesn't!
sineappsSep 17, 2006
Oh, and my Mum wants Squishem, a game from the C64!:)