I'm at a complete stand still with ideas for programs. I had made a flash card viewer and also an iTunes Status Bar, but never really finished my e-mail client.
Keep in mind, I am programming in Cocoa for Mac's. I am completely dry when it comes to creativity, and was interested if anyone had any ideas recently. I like to make programs rather than games, too. I am willing to accept any ideas for anything :D Or if anyone is coding for the Windows platform maybe I can make a Mac port? Let me know!
I'm not a Mac user, never was, but... Just think whatever you miss while using your computer... Anything small, any plug-in/add-on? I think it's the best to make whatever you need for several reasons: - You have motivation to code. - You'll improve your workspace (when the project is done) - Someone else might be missing the same thing.
I don't know what you're doing for living/on your free time... Maybe you're missing some easy-to-access stats display (like Conky for Linux... I find it useful)... Or try to do something like Gnome-Do. Yeah. This can be my suggestion. Gnome-Do is something I miss on any other OS. I can't work normally without it anymore. Even dock/super-bar can't replace it (although I have dock as well). There is only one problem about it. I don't know what is the speed difference between Obj-C and C++, but I think C++ might be better for such algorithms. Maybe even C. It's definitely faster, which is better (I think speed in such projects is the second-main factor).
But it might be just me (as C++ lover). Gnome-Do doesn't contain any super complicated algorithms. Comparing differences between 2 strings isn't that hard. I have coded such algorithm in the past and it's pretty simple to code it to be fast... And it was just me, alone, coding that algorithm in 2 hours or something (with full debugging. Back then I was very unexperienced and made LOTS of mistakes). Someone more clever/experienced could code it to compare 300k strings per second... or more... I can't remember what was my result... In case you need the algorithm (C++), I still have it. But it's pure dynamic programming.
But a stats display, i could do that. I have an interesting idea I hope could work. BUT I was already working on something. A comic RSS reader. basically it will download the RSS feeds and rather than having to guess when some comics are updated, you just read it in the window which is constantly being updated.
@tLunter Conky isn't anything like RSS. Conky is actually something really powerful. It is more like an interpreter to display your computer stats + almost anything if you have a good enough shell knowledge. You can Google on it and config files... You'll see that everyone customizes it to whatever they need. Position, data displayed, how often updated, the way it looks and etc...
I see that iStat is something close enough to Conky but I believe Conky is the most powerful tool of it kind in all OSes.