Better Browser Bookmarks

You can drag a folder onto the bookmark bar of your browser and create an easy-access link to that folder. But, things could be better.

What the browser should to is examine the link you added - see that it's a folder, with sub-folders and, next time you hover on it, give you a drop-down menu allowing you to descend into a subfolder right away.

Fergie's New Masterplan

1. Use United's cash reserves to buy a tinpot little Spanish club.

2. Promote this club from Division 1 to to La Liga.

3. Now, get English players from the United academy to play in La Liga for this club to unravel Barca from close range.

4. Get the Barca system adopted by United.

Better Android Gmail

For a start, it'd be nice if Apple and Google grew up and decided to let Android Gmail do the pinch and zoom thing. It'd be less crappy with it.

But, when you get a new mail, you get the Gmail icon on the status bar - as a notification. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a default colour and another colour for the special case of getting an email from someone on your contact list? You don't care so much about Chase telling you your payment has posted, but you would like to know if your girlfriend wants to tell you something. Ja? Larry, Sergey, listening?

Killer iPhone App

You see it all the time, you buy and iPad, your kid or spouse loves it and starts to hog it. Wouldn't it be nice if you could use your iPhone as a remote control to get it back? Your kid loves an iPad app, but she only likes the intro and that's what you now have to hear over and over. iPhone app now lets you remote into your iPad and disable that annoying intro. Nice? This is fundamental. Now, a properly designed iPad app has an interface that permits such customization. Get that Palin prize ready.

Without such an app, if frustration is the only option, it might eventually give new meaning to the word breakthrough.

Google MapMate

This is Facebook++ and LinkedIn++.

Imagine, you're doing your daily gmail and you're corresponding with someone new in your life - business acquaintance or otherwise. Now, wouldn't it be nice if gmail gave you the option of adding-to-map this person.

Then, you want to be able to look at the world map and see all your contacts. And, not just your contacts but your 2nd and 3rd degree connections. So, red dots are 1st degree connections, blue are 2nd degree, you get the idea.

Now, people should have the option of allowing themselves to be mapped - so that someone actually needs to give permission to show up on your map as a 2nd degree connection.

Then, when you want to take that vacation to HongKong and want to know who you might meet there that you know through a mutual friend - go to MapMate - courtesy of Google.

Nice?

Solar-Powered Autonomous Bouncing Ball

Had to log this somewhere. Was a draft on my old phone. You've seen companies hand out battery-powered gizmos at career-fairs. It would be cute to have a transparent (upto the solar cell) ball that bounces when it's bright enough.

Ultimate Android e-Reader App

Use the self-shot camera to look at the user's eyes and determine when he reaches the end of a line and use the flyback to scroll the page minimally. How about that for the ultimate user-friendly e-reader?