mydreamapp.com — Ever wonder where all the hours go? Blossom tracks how much time you spend on each app, web site, or document, and visualizes the data as a beautiful blossoming plant. Meet your goals and see your virtual plant blossom! Vote for the Blossom concept at http://mydreamapp.com/vote/ and see your productivity blossom!
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tizz66Oct 5, 2006
I've got a better idea.Some sort of USB dongle, plugged into your computer and the other end buried in the soil of a real plant. If you work, it'll water the plant. If you don't, it won't. I'd feel much more concerned about killing a real plant sitting on my desk, rather than a picture on my desktop.Though I could just cheat and water it myself, then go back to digging in peace... Hmm.
neomOct 5, 2006
lol, i was thinking the same thing!!
lilrabbit129Oct 5, 2006
I'm starting to get annoyed at this contest. Every time an app is mentioned on digg it gets my hopes up, but turns out its just an idea of an app...
cortaOct 5, 2006
I know it might seem kinda silly, but this stuff has been proven to work. (It's simple behaviorism as invented by B.F. Skinner. The same way you train your dog, with positive and negative reinforcement, you can train yourself. Not to condescend to y'all by posting the wikipedia article on reinforcement, here's a book about the subject: <a class="user" href="http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog-Teaching-Training/dp/0553380397/sr=1-1/qid=1160087167/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8553845-9298339?ie=UTF8&s=books">http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Shoot-Dog-Teaching-Training/dp/0553380397/sr=1-1/qid=1160087167/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8553845-9298339?ie=UTF8&s=books</a>
tbob19Oct 5, 2006
Cool idea, would like to see it in action.
sunsurfinOct 5, 2006
I know this has been touched on by a lot of previous commenters, but could we please give this contest coverage a rest?! Every single time a single thing happens in the mydreamapp contest, a story on it gets submitted to digg. It happened with round one, round two, and it's sure to happen on round three. How many apps that aren't even apps yet have made it to the homepage now? At least three I'm sure... Get it through your head that if I were interested in this competition, I would be already paying attention (as I am)! I've seen every single thing mentioned here when the mydreamapp round 1 thread was made... I don't need to see it all again...Sorry if I sound like a troll, but this is getting as bad as the Apple rumour stories when it comes around a Keynote Tuesday.... The URL to get all this news is <a class="user" href="http://mydreamapp.com">http://mydreamapp.com</a> ... we get it...
quintusOct 6, 2006
The portability of the USB dongle would be greatly diminished by the large pot of soil.And tank of water.
agretOct 6, 2006
It'll just log it as "Safari" unless you explicity tell it to label it as Digg and you can tell your plant that safari is a productive app so your tree can grow when you're digging and die when you're working. Reverse tree ftw, then your boss can look at the tree and go "oh, he's working" muahahaha
agretOct 6, 2006
I'm on Windows but I digg the apple stuff still because hey, Apple is alright. I don't really care about it but I just digg it for the hell of it. The digg system is already screwed enough, i'm not the only one digging stuff I don't read or care about :P
loltasticOct 8, 2006
I would like to know this too...