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Last week we interviewed Andy Stanford-Clark on his smart home integration with Twitter and now we have a document published by computer science student Justin Wickett giving his open source script to do the same.  Read on for the code that gets your home communicating with you via SMS text message to your mobile plus all the other advantages Twitter offers...

OK, we love Google.  Google search, Google reader, Google Docs, but where's our Google Drive - we need file storage in the Cloud to complete the package?   While we were waiting, a few weeks back we saw the DropBox video (check it out after the jump) and were blown away.  Well today we final got an invite to the beta and after a morning playing it appears to be just as great in real life.  So here's our 5 minute summary of what it can do...

ITV's on-line TV service - Catchup - is now Mac compatible.  You'll need to install Microsofts Silverlight plugin, the Adobe-Flash-like addon that's required for it to work.  We've just tried it and as you can see from the screen grab above it's v1.0 but still classed as a beta...

A few minutes ago the BBC announced that it's done a deal with Nintendo to allow its Wii games console to stream iPlayer programing to TVs across the UK!  A basic version of the player is available TODAY with a more polished version to follow.

UPDATE Instructions for enabling the iPlayer on the Wii have now been published on the BBC site.  It appears this involves paying £3.50 to add the Internet Channel, although the BBC hope to find a way around this in the future...