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techtrucker · May 13, 2003, 01:32 PM

I just finished developing and shipping my first Cocoa app...it's for trucking/transportation companies and uses Postgres for the database. Now I'm itching to do something else, anyone have any ideas for any free/shareware apps they'd like to see?
Thanks in advance.

Steve W

Bouba · May 13, 2003, 02:01 PM

I've got a couple.

One that could listen on the phone line for incoming calls, get the number, and broadcast on the network to the registered computers the info. That computer will then map the phone number to the information in the address book to display a message on the screen like the address book already does for phones connected through bluetooth. (it would be nice if the server could work as a deamon, and have another interface to set it..)

Alot of parts to make this applications are already open-source, so it should be fearly easy for someone who knows how to develop!

Another idea would be an itunes controler that get the playlist from itunes sharing function, and the used that info to remotelly control the other computer.

you could try to document the .menu extra

Guitar tuner that uses a microphone and tells you if the note is tuned by analysing the frequency.

I had some more, but can't remember them...
Take care, let me informed of what you decide to do!

techtrucker · May 13, 2003, 02:30 PM

Cool ideas...didn't someone have a guitar tuner for OS 8-9.x? Funny you mention that, I went to tune up last night and the battery in my Boss tuner was dead...

Steve W

Chuckit · May 13, 2003, 03:51 PM

Originally posted by Bouba:
you could try to document the .menu extra

Actually, I've seen the Menu Extra API documented. Don't have the link on me just now, but I know it's out there--probably on CocoaDev.

ambush · May 13, 2003, 06:55 PM

Originally posted by Chuckit:
Actually, I've seen the Menu Extra API documented. Don't have the link on me just now, but I know it's out there--probably on CocoaDev.

use class-dump.

Chuckit · May 13, 2003, 07:29 PM

Well, I meant there's actual documentation (i.e. "This function is used such-and-such") on it somewhere. Not just the interface.

Nebagakid · May 13, 2003, 09:30 PM

just make an App that is pointless but does a lot of fun stuff with the dock

like badging, and animating, like adium or like omniweb

and make it open-source

i wanna see a DockFun Tuturoial/Example app!

Ludovic Hirlimann · May 15, 2003, 01:58 AM

Originally posted by techtrucker:
I just finished developing and shipping my first Cocoa app...it's for trucking/transportation companies and uses Postgres for the database. Now I'm itching to do something else, anyone have any ideas for any free/shareware apps they'd like to see?
Thanks in advance.

Steve W

Write a cocoa front end for bugzilla

absmiths · May 15, 2003, 02:05 PM

There was a post somewhere about a guy that had the best idea ever (tm) for a new Cocoa app, but wouldn't tell anybody what it was. Maybe you two could get together?

I just found the thread, here it is:

http://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?threadid=158894

Brass · May 15, 2003, 09:42 PM

dsniff !!!

I've been unable to get dsniff to build on mac OS X. It has several libraries on which it depends, including libnids which I cannot compile.

If you can build the dsniff suite of network tools for Mac OS X, and package the binaries nicely, I'd be very interested.

techtrucker · May 19, 2003, 03:11 PM

dsniff, huh? I'll check it out...although I'd be curious what you might want to do with dsniff.

Steve W

ambush · May 19, 2003, 04:00 PM

Something like OTSessionWatcher on OS9:

a good packet sniffer with a nice UI.

Brass · May 21, 2003, 12:54 AM

Well, dsniff can even sniff across a switch, which is pretty cool (using ARP tricks). It can recompile emails and web pages from the packets it sniffs.

On rare occasions we have naughty people on our network, and this would make it a lot easier to track them down, once we got a tip-off.

May 21, 2003, 09:23 AM

Originally posted by Bouba:
I've got a couple.

One that could listen on the phone line for incoming calls, get the number, and broadcast on the network to the registered computers the info. That computer will then map the phone number to the information in the address book to display a message on the screen like the address book already does for phones connected through bluetooth. (it would be nice if the server could work as a deamon, and have another interface to set it..)

That's a great idea. I just wish the Macs' built-in modems supported CallerID.

Bouba · May 21, 2003, 07:07 PM

Originally posted by hayesk:
That's a great idea. I just wish the Macs' built-in modems supported CallerID.

well.. it worked on my g3 on the internal modem.

Macs' built-in modems don't support voice although

Sarah31 · 08:42 PM

a cocoa frontend for the recently ported application called transcode. something on par with dvd::rip would be good only not having to use the stupid depends that dvd::rip has (well using cocoa would pretty well solve that).

info on transcode is here DVD::Rip can be found here