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Okay, besides a memory chip to insert in my brain to enhance my knowledge base (and learn languages instantly) do you know what else I would like to see invented?
A way to attach a parcel of information to an image file that sticks with that file through uploading and downloading. Like a informational watermark, and I KNOW that there's already a way to do this, because in some programs, images from my digital camera are marked with the type of camera and a time/date stamp on it.
I'd like to have captions of images glued to those images, like what we call in the museum world the "tombstone": Artist, title, date, medium...and a way to edit it to add things like "originally posted at www.whatever.com, found via so-and-so at wherever blogger service, etc." I think that tumblr.com is doing something like this, and probably other sites, but it's not standardized. I try to save image files with some identifying title, but things always get lost in the renaming, and then when I want to post them or refer to them elsewhere, I can't remember where I got them, who the artist is, or why I saved it in the first place.
Then, if I try to upload it to sites like LJ and Ravelry, whatever helpful title I did manage to save it under gets deleted and it gets renamed as something decidedly UNhelpful, like aks900000000000475691212545akdaczcyz.jpg
Like this one. It's a perfectly nice picture of Marilyn Monroe, reading. I think I got it off a home decor site, looking for turquoise rooms. But I also look through vintage movie sites, and might have gotten it there, or looking for pictures of women reading...I'm not really sure. At any rate, I'd like to both know where it's from and credit who took it (and who put it on the internet.) But I saved it with some generic title like "Marilyn Reading". That helps nobody.
Pretty, though. It's a pity. My computers are full of stuff like this, unfiled, unsorted, uncredited.
A way to attach a parcel of information to an image file that sticks with that file through uploading and downloading. Like a informational watermark, and I KNOW that there's already a way to do this, because in some programs, images from my digital camera are marked with the type of camera and a time/date stamp on it.
I'd like to have captions of images glued to those images, like what we call in the museum world the "tombstone": Artist, title, date, medium...and a way to edit it to add things like "originally posted at www.whatever.com, found via so-and-so at wherever blogger service, etc." I think that tumblr.com is doing something like this, and probably other sites, but it's not standardized. I try to save image files with some identifying title, but things always get lost in the renaming, and then when I want to post them or refer to them elsewhere, I can't remember where I got them, who the artist is, or why I saved it in the first place.
Then, if I try to upload it to sites like LJ and Ravelry, whatever helpful title I did manage to save it under gets deleted and it gets renamed as something decidedly UNhelpful, like aks900000000000475691212545akdaczcyz.jpg
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Like this one. It's a perfectly nice picture of Marilyn Monroe, reading. I think I got it off a home decor site, looking for turquoise rooms. But I also look through vintage movie sites, and might have gotten it there, or looking for pictures of women reading...I'm not really sure. At any rate, I'd like to both know where it's from and credit who took it (and who put it on the internet.) But I saved it with some generic title like "Marilyn Reading". That helps nobody.
Pretty, though. It's a pity. My computers are full of stuff like this, unfiled, unsorted, uncredited.
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http://behindthecurtain.us/2010/06/12/my-first-week-with-the-iphone/
It's an essay about a blind dude getting an iPhone.
I skimmed some of the middle part because I am not very smart, but the last few paragraphs about made me cry, and EE never cries.
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