You may have heard about the release of the iPad 2 yesterday and despite the catastrophe in Japan and (the far less significant) twitter announcement, Apple’s iPad update is still garnering a lot of attention online.Over the last 24 hours, a number of unboxing videos have been posted to YouTube…

via Apple is going to love this: Probably the best customer unboxing video ever..

 

The BBC’s official Torchwood channel on Facebook and Twitter has confirmed that Torchwood: The New World will broadcast in both the United Kingdom and United States on 1st July 2011.

The UK broadcast time has been listed as 9:00pm on BBC1/BBC1HD.

 
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The BBC have released some casting details regarding the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special. Joining Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill are Michael Gambon and Katherine Jenkins. You can read more about the news HERE.


BBC reporter and fan Lizo Mzimba has suggested through Twitter that the story is called Father Who?and it’s a “twist on A Christmas Carol.” You can read the official press release HERE.

 

The 13WHAM-TV newsroom felt shaking at about 1:43 p.m. It lasted for about 5 to 10 seconds.

Twitter and Facebook comments indicate people felt the slight shaking all over Rochester.

The U.S. Geological Survey said there was a 2.8 magnitude earthquake along the U.S. -Canadian border near Cornwall, Ontario.

We will bring you more information as it becomes available.

via Earthquake in Northern N.Y. Shakes Rochester – Rochester, News, Weather, Sports, and Events – 13WHAM.com.

 

Leonard Nimoy recently joined Twitter and geeks around the world have rejoiced at the wonderful Twitter exchange with his old friend William Shatner.

Indigo Tweet!

 

This is a good example of how to integrate your Indigo system into Twitter!

Okay, it’s only a one way integration, any Insteon device that supports a “turn on” or “Turn off” command will automatically be Tweeted when turned on or off, with the appropriate message…

For example:

Desktop lamp was turned on

Desktop lamp was turned off

And yes, there isn’t too much sophistication here with this example script.  Please feel free to make suggestions, and comments…  I’d be happy to consider them for a newer version of the script…

Installation

  1. Download the ZIP file, and unarchive it.
  2. Copy the Indigo Tweet! script  into /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/Scripts/Attachments
  3. Reload the Attachments via the Indigo Scripts menu (Choose Reload Attachments).
  4. Add an TwitterID & TwitterPassword variable
  5. Set the TwitterID to your Twitter Username
  6. Set the TwitterPassword to your Twitter Password
  7. Watch as your House talks to you via your Twitter Feed…

Uninstall

  1. Remove the Indigo Tweet! script  into /Library/Application Support/Perceptive Automation/Indigo 4/Scripts/Attachments
  2. Reload the Attachments via the Indigo Scripts menu (Choose Reload Attachments).
  3. [optional] Remove the TwitterID & TwitterPassword variables from your Variable list
 

Made. Of. WIN!!! @pschtyckque’s MythBusters Lego gallery: http://bit.ly/86S6NE

via Twitter / Home.

 

Well, I’m communicating with the author of the Twitoaster package, to see if we can isolate what is causing the failure of the package…  (It’s probably something related to my wordpress configuration…)

Twitoaster, automatically posts the wordpress posts to Twitter, but it also allows the Retweets, and Tweetbacks, to show up in the posts on the blog…

In the meantime, Facebook integration is still working…Or you could just monitor the RSS feeds..

- Benjamin

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