Beeker Studios

I decided to take a look at Social Networking solutions for higher education usage, but a lot of these solutions extend to use in a business, or organization. I think the thing that is critical to understand about implementing a solution like these, is that since all of them allow you to run them closed (as far as I can tell), they allow you to create a private and secure "social network". In my case this will be used to facilitate communication between advisors in different departments of a college.

If you haven't already done so you need to perform the actions discussed on this page. If you don't have a TrickleStar USB Stick or a z-wave device, than you're also going to need to have those to even hack the widget to work in the following web app writeup.

This "project" is not for the feint of heart, but once it's setup it's pretty simple to operate. Proceed with caution... you may become addicted to recording more tv shows than you can watch, or have space for. This addiction is known as tivoitis.

Why are you even doing this? Hulu ROXORS! Cable SUXORS!

My wife and I finally broke down and got the new iPhones (3GS to be exact, woohoo!), and as a result were confronted with AT&T's messaging plans. We previously used T-Mobile, and for $5/month we could both share 400 texts. What a great deal! I use very few, texting my wife mostly, and some friends, but it's probably about an 80/20 split. We almost always barely pushed this 400 amount, mostly from US sending each other back and forth notes about what to get at the store, or to communicate with each other in short messages, anything else, we did over IM, or via e-mail.

First... take a gander at this video.

What is this for?

UPDATE: I have released the HTPC Launchboard (which is basically what this page is about), which you can find out more information about here:
http://www.beekerstudios.com/mind/introducing-htpc-launchboard-iphone-we...