Better NEdit - Surprised They Don't Have This One Already

CTRL-l (el) will pop up a dialog where you can enter the line number you want to go to.

How about, if the user has selected a number, doing something similar to CTRL-h - go to the line without popping up a dialog.

Useful when a tool like the perl debugger tells you things about your code..

Simple Feature Makes Google Sheets 100% More User Friendly

Nuts - they have this for the Maps already. Why the * can't they make this available for sheets?

Night mode!

During the day, you may not mind most of the screen being white, but at night you do! Please provide a night mode that can be invoked with a simple keyboard shortcut!!

Please!!

Gesture Recognition Gives Uber Drivers Control Over Their Life

You've done 3 in a row and you want 10 minutes to unwind to a relaxation tape. How? If you're getting ride after ride, that's not possible..

The answer - instead of only  "tap to accept", how about also adding a gesture the driver can use to say "Accept this one, and, after I end trip, immediately send me offline - don't send me another ride immediately."

A Useful Chrome Add-On

You're viewing a PDF late at night and you're tired of bright background.

Wouldn't it be nice if there were a hot-key to turn on a Night-mode so the text became white and the background dark?

Why can't Google think like Apple and make stuff possible? How about moving on from "Don't Be Evil" to "Be Cool"?

Impact!! Someone delivered!! Thank you!!

Cadence the First Software Co to Exploit Heat Concept in GUIs

What is Heat?

You have a windowing application.
You have menu-items - File, Edit, etc. Each of these, have sub-menus and those sub-menus have atomic menu-items (or sub-sub-menus). You get the idea.
So, the first time a user uses the product, each atomic menu item will have some heat.
Menus that provide access to a lot of atomic menu-items will have a lot of heat.
The heat appears visible to the user as a glow.
Heat exists till the menu-item has been used. It disappears after that.
So, as he uses menu-items during the life of the app, the glow on the root menu items will reduce.
Though there is averaging involved to provide glow to root menu-items, there is a minimum amount of glow that is clearly distinguishable to indicate to the user that there is an unexplored feature within the root menu-item.

This will, in short order, turn every user into a power-user.

XFAB's Plan for Explosive Growth in the Analog Design Market

1. Partner with LTspice (i.e., pay LT some money to get them to support encrypted spice models)
2. Get LT to support runtime loading of the encrypted model from the internet (i.e., even though encrypted, the model file cannot be possessed by the user on his computer - it will, however, be accessible to LTspice)
3. Get LT to enhance LTspice with some additional features that will make it more Cadence-like.
4. Sit back and rake it in as more and more college kids design and refine IP that everyone can use and that big companies then start to BUY!

A Better User Experience from US Airways Mastercard

Gots something in the mail that said, "Go Paperless statements and make a purchase by Dec 31 to get a $25 statement credit."

So I did. And? Phut. Nothing!

Calls customer service and they say that promotion ended Dec 31 and it'll take 6-8 weeks for you to get the reward.

Okay. Then, why not put the $25 credit on my account "grayed out" - you know what I mean - the statement balance won't reflect it, but, if you hover over it, you get info telling you what it's about, "thanks for participating in our Paperless campaign" or something.

Still, you got to be grateful for the dumbasses running these businesses. That's how we get to be here..