There is a little known service available on mobile phones called a callback tone or ringback tone. It allows the customisation of what other people hear when they call you, instead of the normal ring ring tone. So people who use it tend to have their phones play selected music tracks to their callers until [...]

As I haven’t posted for a while, I thought I would write briefly about three ideas in this post.

Suspend a Keyword in Google Reader: I would like to see a Google Reader plug-in that allows me to suspend keywords for a configurable number of days. So if I was sick of reading about the iPhone [...]

The first idea is for an app that might be named Crossed Paths. It would use the iPhone’s location capabilities to track each of its users’ movements. It would then report to each user which other users crossed paths with them each day – basically which users were in the same vicinity in any given [...]

This idea was contributed by reader Cliff Bull.
It is amazing what the mind can conjure up when you don’t make money your primary focus. Cliff has come up with an idea to boost the adoption of recycling, particularly amongst young people in the U.K and in fact anywhere else in the world. His idea is [...]

I haven’t posted any travel related ideas since the excess baggage allowance exchange idea I posted a while back. As I travelled recently to and from Dubai recently though, two ideas occurred to me – one on the way there and the other on the way back.
I am currently looking for a developer to [...]

Why don’t GPS sat nav units serve ads? Why not give away sat nav units and sell advertising to businesses such that when a user arrives at their destination, the familiar “You have reached your destination” message is quickly followed by a couple of brief audio ads? For in-phone sat nav units, the user could [...]

It appears that there is no free to use website for gauging the balance of public opinion – good to or bad – for a specified keyword or phrase. This keyword could be a product, brand, country, website, whatever. Now I did find that a company called SkyGrid does offer a similar service but it [...]

One idea that has bounced in and out of my head for a couple of years now is to give website publishers and bloggers the ability to show in a widget, photos of people mentioned on a web page or blog post. In its simplest form, the widget could have an admin interface that would [...]

Most air travellers travel with hold baggage pieces well within the allowed limits but many others travel with excess baggage – typically on international, long-haul flights. I haven’t done much detailed research on revenues from excess baggage charges but my guess is that they are substantial.
My idea is for a web-based system that allows passengers [...]

Lately I have been thinking of learning Ruby, Python or similar to develop working prototypes of some of my ideas. It occurs to me that it would be a good idea for someone to offer a training course in programming where the student brings an idea that they want to implement and over the duration of the [...]