October 2010
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Metadata
Idea: A master boot record is really just a file metadata database, why not extend it with other info? Of course it would probably have to be a defined size, but IDs can be a defined size and can point to the location of the metadata corresponding to a file. Things like permissions, dates, tags, names, geotags, whatever, are a vital part of any extended file system, and they should be coded into...
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Deleting
Idea: Never save or delete anything, throw it off screen and it saves and closes, “deal with later.” Don’t save filenames, save thumbnails and/or some lines/general topic. “Deleted” things get saved/moved to an area where they may be rewritten if space repuires, but not necessarily. Of course there would be an option to completely remove sensitive items.
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GPS units are like wandering into a godless world before anyone thought up the crazy idea of having standardized APIs, and just decided to do the same 20 functions a thousand times.
The interesting part was watching my dad try to delete some tracks he’d just transferred off the GPS, and were sitting in the oh-so-fun Garmin MapSource. There’s a list of tracks in a pane on the left...
