Live Translator

Why not have a mobile app where one can live cast (audio or video) with someone who can translate! Can be especially handy for those traveling to a foreign land. The current translators require one to type the text and then receive a translation




Google Photo Tagging




As google provides a S3 style unique link to each photo if shared (and auto sharing of all photos can be enabled) a handle is available for development of additional features linked to the photo. For example for each link (photo), tags can be maintained separately. A meta-googlephotos site could show google photos with overlays of the tags.


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Recovering bad sectors is non trivial- spinrite to the rescue

Great article on recovering bad blocks, but fairly time consuming. After trying to repair a few, I gave up and purchased Spinrite...that does the same/similar (and much more)


Phone based self service checkout

Why not enable mobile app based self service check out?

Mint.com missing features

• There is no way to create a custom alert to ‘watch’ for a particular transaction. For example, if waiting for a $153 refund.
• No way to create a alert for the account reaching more than 30% of credit limit

Silly Amazon, doesn’t have advanced search

Absolutely ridiculous that Amazon doesn’t have an advanced search facility. For example search dimensions . Does have feature fields for its products, showing them in tabular format!

Idea: Return tracking automation

From filing a return on Amazon or eBay to receipt of payment. The last part being more important

Web Automation Site

A website that allows a user to quickly automate clicks on other website and save it for re-use. There after other uses can re-use that automation for their benefit.




Idea:A site which rates pilot skills esp. landing

A site where people can vote or rank the flight landing, air pressure maintenance performed by their pilot on their last flight

Basic features that are missing in browsers

With advent of web2.0, the software world has rapidly changed. Native apps have become obsolete and everything works using a web interface. In fact, some computers (like Chrome OS based) are being designed purely for web browsing. The same is true for mobile and tablet platforms, the browser being a significant player with reports suggesting uses spend an average of 25% of their time on browsers.

There are a few features that are still missing browsers:

– Switching: Normal apps can be easily switched using Ctrl-Tab

– Auto association of file types