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Focus is a productivity aid that embraces the concept of “work modes.” The user defines any number of modes which instruct Focus to performing an arbitrary list of instructions as appropriate.

This is not so easy, even with the Accessibility API. Next action: Come up with a reliable way of detecting font information for whatever is pointed to on screen. It might be appealing to designers, though it’s possible that most designers are familiar enough with fonts that the information provided by Font Spy would be useless. State of the market: Nothing like this exists, that I know of. Similarly to the Cmd-Ctrl-D “dictionary lookup” feature in Tiger, Font Spy offers a global hotkey that, when pressed, pops up a handy reference window including the text’s font name, color, and other style considerations.

Font Spy makes it easy for users to instantaneously examine attributes of any font displayed on the screen.Next action: Investigate viability of searching Google’s public domain offerings programatically.

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With the PDF capabilities in OS X, there should be many more specialized reading apps. State of the market: specialized PDF readers seem like a ripe market to me, yet everybody still reads with Acrobat or Preview. The current page of this book is saved between launches so a user can always easily resume reading whichever “books they have open.” When a result is clicked, the window animates as if opening a book, and presents the contents of the PDF file. The UI consists of a stylish window designed as a “book metaphor.” The front cover consists of a search box that allows the user to easily bring up Google book results.

Google Book Reader is a desktop application aimed at leveraging the growing availability of public domain books via Google.

Next action: Write a shell-tool proof of concept that accumulates checksums for a directory of files. State of the market: I don’t know of any product like this, but I haven’t looked too hard. No contents of files are actually saved, just a checksum or something to show you whether something is the same or different.

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Taking a snapshot of your disk before and after a Software Update would show you in precise detail every file that the update has changed on your disk. This is particularly useful for “before and after” tests, for example when installing software.

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Snapshots examines any folder or disk on your Mac and produce a reference description against which future “snapshots” can be compared.

Next action: Look into adding a menu bar icon to Vidalia. It needs a Mac overhaul, but could prove to be a good arena in which to realize this “product.” It’s a good first step but has cross-platform clunkiness. State of the market: Vidalia is an open source UI wrapper available from EFF itself. Privacy Guard runs in the background and offers a menu bar icon to easily reflect your privacy status, and allow you to flip between protected and unprotected modes. Probably Tor, the powerful and popular solution from the EFF.

Privacy Guard is an elegant, simple UI wrapper on some private web-browsing technology.

What simple step can you take to come closer to realizing the dream? To make it even easier for you to steal my ideas, I’m including a proposed “next action” for each idea (this approach comes from GTD and is also consistent with my Easy Programming philosophy). I’ve summarized what my take is on the “state of the market” for each idea is, but I might be missing some awesome product that I just haven’t heard about. Also, let me know if any of these ideas already exist. But if you like an idea you read here, if it really fires you up, then pursue it! No permission necessary.

You’ll know them because they’ll sound like a bad idea to you. Most of this ideas won’t inspire you, because they’re mine. Here are ten ideas from my years-old idea file, in no particular order. Tell them anyway.” - Built to Spill ( iTunes Song Link) “No one wants to hear what you dreamt about unless you dreamt about them. Somebody else’s idea is only valuable if it happens to be something you were inevitably going to be passionate about, yourself.

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In the same way that you might make a note of a brand of wine you particularly enjoyed, or a movie you want to rent, or a museum you want to visit. They are reminders of something that satisfies you. They’re mainly significant to the person who thought of them, because they represent an “inspiration bookmark” for that person. Like water, they’re critical to life but at easy reach for most of us.

Necessary, yes! But they’re nothing special. It seems most people still think ideas are golden. In the month since I wrote that article, those words have been the most controversial. They run like flood-water through every conceivable channel of the internet.” I meant it when I downplayed the value of ideas in my critique of the My Dream App contest: