Posts Tagged ‘hacks’



Twitter Hack – How to Tweet Your Palm Pre’s GPS Location!

September 11th, 2009

Here’s a really fun Twitter hack that shows you how to “tweet” your Palm Pre’s GPS location to your Twitter account.  This could be a great way to track your Pre’s whereabouts as you can also optionally set your Twitter account to “protected” so only you see the GPS updates.

(Screenshot of @trackmypalmpre, which gets updated with location of my Palm Pre every hour.)

As promised on my last blog post on how to set up Google GPS tracking on your Palm Pre, I will now show you how to “tweet’ your GPS location to a Twitter account so you can track it on Twitter too.

This might be a great way to keep “track” of where your Palm Pre has been.  You could probably even make a GoogleMaps using the Twitter RSS feed to show exactly where your Palm Pre has been traveling in the past.

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Twitter Hack – Home Automation Using Twitter Status Updates!

July 20th, 2009

Here’s an incredibly fun way to devise up home automation using Twitter Status updates as commands for remote-control of your home appliances.  This is a really cool project (as any other Twitter hacks) as it makes use of your actual @reply messages to control your home.

With http://twitter.com/MattsOffice you can send a command by placing a keyword in a @reply message. Valid keywords are “light”, “bright”, “dark”, “temp”, “hot”, “cold”, “lcd”, and “view”. For example, to retrieve the temperature of my office I just need to update my Twitter status with a simple question like “@MattsOffice What is the temperature?”

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Twitter Hack – Office Chair Fart Detector Tweets!

April 26th, 2009

Randy, over at Instructables, have made a cool office chair that will detect when you fart, and of course, tweet that to the whole world.  Cool stuff, I wish there’s a video for it.

See, there’s endless possibilities for Twitter hacks, thus TweetHacking.com was born!

The Twittering office chair “tweets” (posts a Twitter update) upon the detection of natural gas such as that produced by human flatulence. This is part of my commitment to accurately document and share my life as it happens.

via instructables

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Twitter page @OfficeChair

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Twitter Hack – Baker Tweet Updates Baking Status on Twitter!

April 8th, 2009

Twitter Hacking has been going sorta crazy lately, with cool hacks like the Botannicals which can tell you when your plants need watering.

Of course, don’t forget about Baker Tweet, this gadget will “tweet” whatever is coming out of your oven, you can follow @albionsoven to see what Albion’s Oven is cooking.

According to the Baker Tweet page:

BakerTweet allows businesses to use Twitter to communicate in real-time about offers, pricing and stock from a device that can withstand kitchen peril and is much simpler to operate than a laptop or a mobile.

Here’s a picture of what it looks like:

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And here’s a video demo:

How It Works:

it’s a bakery-proof box that sends messages wirelessly to Twitter. The clever bit is that the baker can update their messages and things they’re selling using a simple web interface. Obviously not something that you’d do mid-bake but it’s an important feature for future-proofing the device.

This might come in handy for those of you bakers who need to know what’s coming out of your oven in real-time.  I see a lot of good applications for this in the near future for many bakeries out there.

via hackedgadgets

TweetHacking.com Launched!

April 6th, 2009

Hello world!  TweetHacking has been launched as of 6:12 PM April 6th 2009!

A little background about myself, my name is Max Lee, I am a blogger over at Zedomax.com.

TweetHacking.com will cover all sorts of twitter hacks and interesting stuff related with Twitter.

As for our first blog post, I noticed that Twitter is actually down right now but do like the new graphics. (the whale was kinda getting old after couple of years)

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My inspiration for this blog?

Well, I have been looking to start new blogs, (as I have in the past Google Chrome Hacks when Chrome was launched in ‘08) I did find that Darren Rowse’s TwiTip.com has become highly successful in a matter of just months.  Great job on the TwiTip blog Darren by the way.

I have been seeing like a gazillion Twitter hacks in the last couple months such as this one so I figured it might be nicer to organize them by making a new blog.

Anyways, enough of launching, let’s get to it, follow my Twitter here to stay updated!