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Transfer money using your mobile phone

  • posted on April 3, 2010
  • William Barnes
  • 1 Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
Here is my idea for a mobile phone payment system that doesn’t require extra equipment or crazy wireless work. You have an application on both phones The seller inputs the amount and it
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Two ideas someone should steal from me

  • posted on September 22, 2009
  • William Barnes
  • No Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
I’m never going to get around to creating these web services myself, so somebody steal the ideas and do it for me… and send me a cheque if it works out for you. Request a VCard by Email A
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Graduate Guess Who

  • posted on December 28, 2008
  • William Barnes
  • 2 Comments
  • Posted in Ideas
Guess Who is a game where each player has a board with a bunch of pictures of people with different features. Each player draws a card with a picture of one of these characters on it and by asking
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Owning your network

  • posted on December 11, 2008
  • William Barnes
  • 1 Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
I know I’m not the first to lament the imprisonment of our social graphs. It was quite a trendy topic last year and last year I came up with a solution (only semi-original). Listening to the
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My two cents

  • posted on December 10, 2008
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Ideas
How much is an opinion worth nowadays? I was inspired by a comment on LifeHacker that ended “Just my $0.10”. It would seem to indicate that this particular user valued his opinion at five
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DNS Spoofing

  • posted on August 16, 2008
  • William Barnes
  • No Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
I have been thinking about the big deal in security at the moment: DNS spoofing. Everybody, it seems, is all caught up in trying to figure out how to add more bits. They want to make DNS replies
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Course Waiting Lists

  • posted on July 13, 2008
  • William Barnes
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  • Posted in Ideas, School
They don’t work. Prior to UTM bringing in course waiting lists last year, I had never failed to get into a course I wanted on account of it being full. Last year, I was denied three courses.
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Improving Tabs

  • posted on July 6, 2008
  • William Barnes
  • No Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
Tabs are great. Nobody wants to have a window for every document they currently have open. However, they’re not perfect. Every implementation I’ve ever run across has the same flaw: when
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Why a bandwidth cap won't work

  • posted on June 29, 2008
  • William Barnes
  • No Comment
  • Posted in Computers & Internet, Ideas
Background ISPs pay for capacity. They pay to have the ability to deliver a certain amount of data per second. They do not pay for the amount of data transferred. If an ISP is capable of transferring
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