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I have been learning about audio level compression (sometimes called DRC) to understand why some music has little dynamic range (highs and lows seem soft or muffled). Keep in mind that I’m not talking about mp3 data compression, but rather the audio range of the music. It is amazing, once you start paying close attention, [...]

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This week, I’m dreaming of a nice application mailer that integrates with Ruby on Rails. Specifically, I want something like Campaign Monitor, but without the metered costs so that I can be a little more free to send emails to my users. Most of the applications I have built recently require that I send emails [...]

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I use Trac to manage my tasks, tickets, and wiki for my various projects. Here are my top 3 dream enhancements that I would use today:

Campfire Notifications – instead of using email notifications for ticket changes, allow me to provide Campfire credentials and post notifications there rather than over email. Combined with Marshmallow, Campfire totally [...]

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I use GMail for my personal email account, as well as for managing several domains, including my latest application Church Director. There are times when I’d like to see a few things different for GMail. Here is my short list:

Mac attachment handling – I get forwarded emails from users of OS X’s mail program. Often, [...]

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Things have been quite busy on my Rails project this week, so I only have 2 projects for you:

A better Windows XP version of iTunes – I use iTunes mostly as a podcatcher and iPod synchronization tool. I’ve bookmarked a couple of substitutes (with no time to evaluate them yet), but I’d love to find [...]

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My dream projects for this week:

Linux Software RAID configurator tool – I have yet to see a good Linux tool for expressing, at a high level, that I want 4 mount points, with the 1st as RAID 1 /boot at xxx MB with ext3fs, the second as RAID 5 / at xxx GB with ext3fs, [...]

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Friday dream projects

Published on 13 July 2007 by James in Dream Projects

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Inspired by Christopher Hawkins, here is my first in a series of dream projects I’d love to build or see built.

Remember the Customer – A user interface and API not unlike Remember The Milk for Lead Management. It may not take much to craft RTM into an RTC, just a few well-placed fields for [...]

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