Mail notifications on your iPhone. Just set up a mail forward for certain emails, and they’ll be translated into a push notification.

ToughCase

http://www.magellangps.com/products/mobile.asp?SEGID=594

ToughCase

Ruggedized case for iPhone (3GS only for now) that boosts GPS quality, provides minimal waterproofing, dust protection and doubles battery life.

Notifo

http://notifo.com/

Notifo

Pretty awesome, super-simple API-based service for sending notifications to distributed devices. Has an iPhone + Growl app.

Proximity Detection on a Mac

I get really annoyed when I find myself having to do things over and over that a computer could easily do. I am also really bad at remembering to do small things that don’t seem that important.

The latest intersection of these 2 things is that I’ve been forgetting (or not bothering) to set my status as “Away” or “Back” on all the communications apps I have running when I leave the computer. This is something that a computer should be able to do itself, and something that I’m horribly bad at remembering to do.

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