Category: Application

  • Proposal: New internet protocol I’d call “socnet”. Similar to RSS, it’s a subscription protocol delivering data via XML file format. Users can create and host ‘social data’ in any tool and on any server, or using a site like Facebook. Other individuals request to connect to the socnet feed of a user, who then accepts them,…

  • Basic design: a brick in your pocket with a giant battery, all the RAM, CPU, and storage. A Bluetooth earbud with also a giant battery (must last a day always on). Use cases: Leverage all the voice-activated functions of current chat bots. User merely speaks all commands, text messages, calendar events, etc. Bluetooth keyboard and…

  • Motivation Playing Descent: Journeys In The Dark (1E) can be an exercise in confusion, especially when one has several conditions in play, is a Necromancer, and is wandering through a trapped dungeon. My second app for Android, built using App Inventor, is designed to make such checks fast and error-free. The Application Here is a…

  • Motivation I decided to try out Google App Inventor, being invited to the Beta. I wanted a simple enough project to get a feel for the process without becoming bogged down in complex logic or user interface (UI) design. It occurred to me that a random Oracle generator for the In A Wicked Age role-playing…

  • Challenge Municipal food banks depend upon food donations to serve the hungry. Coordinating donors with bank locations becomes a logistical challenge: Picking up donations in a timely manner, without disrupting donor business Distributing donations to banks that need them most Accounting for the storage space of banks Transferring food between banks, if actual numbers do…