Hi all,
Sometimes I get emails from people who would like to write an app (to help learn scripting better with, or as a project they can get interested in), and they're looking for suggestions. So, I was hoping we all could post our suggestions to the scripting and apps list when we thought of such things, and if someone decided to take up an idea, I'd hope they'd answer such a post to let others know someone else was already working on that idea (we had a wiki entry at one time as a place for people to list their plans but alas .). Well, this idea comes as a result of various people asking me "have you heard ." and then some recent news item. I'd like to say yes, I've always heard, but I don't usually have the time to go keep checking CNN (or even an RSS aggregator). My idea is that I see CNN has their headlines in various categories listed in an XML RSS file, which they update from time to time. I was thinking it would be nice if, as they added some new headline in a category you had marked as being of interest to you, your app (which would check say once every 5 minutes) could either speak the headline, or bring up the headline in a message box? Either way, perhaps you'd have a hotkey which would bring up the headlines and allow you to jump to the CNN page for a given headline. So, that's my idea (which I don't have time for because I'm not finishing my other ideas). Others are free to comment on it or modify it until, in some form, it catches someone's interest. It may not be the best app idea, but maybe just discussing app ideas here will help us create one which is the best app idea (after all, it's really (to me) where WE outshines all other competition, in that it's so easy to create an app). Chip
