I updated my Update multiple twitter accounts via SMS from one phone script to use OAuth, and made a note about gathering OAuth credentials for plain-text storage at Getting twitter OAuth tokens & secrets.

(Most apps are a little more interactive than this one and would store the details in a database, but it seems overkill for this application!)

Yes, I know I'm coming into this a few years late. Tomtom's Mapshare is the ability to correct your maps on your Tomtom - and then share them with other Tomtom users.

On a personal level, this is great. I've had my new Tomtom for a week now, and have found a few junctions around York that have some interesting turn restrictions in place. Rather than drive around these (in some cases ignoring John's pleas to "turn around when possible"), I've been able to go in and correct them - so I can now turn right from Nunnery Lane to Micklegate, and go straight on from Peasholme Green to Layerthorpe. There were also numerous mini-roundabouts missing, which I've been able to add. And finally, there's a bridge closed in York for two weeks, so I've been able to mark it as such (and pinpoint it as "temporary") and can remove the restriction when it reopens.

I admit that it's a lot easier to edit when using a stylus rather than your finger - trying to pinpoint the exact bit of road or junction that you want to modify can be tricky. The interface seems common sense to me, but maybe less technical users wouldn't manage it. Mind you, less technical users might not bother updating!

However, the sharing of data with other users is slightly lacking. You can choose from 4 levels of data - TomTom verified; trusted users; many users; and some users. However, there's no way of knowing what changes you're getting. True, I wouldn't want to see the list of hundreds or thousands of changes for the whole of Europe that probably come with the TomTom verified ones; but I'd be interested to see those in York on all four settings, to see what I would trust. As it is, I don't know what I'm downloading, so I've stuck with the verified ones.

The whole thing seems to be very closed-book, though; who are these trusted sources? Why can't we get a list of corrections? I would have thought that opening it up some more, perhaps with a site to assist in managing the data, would help some users - but then I guess most users don't care about the actual data, they just want the corrections.

Finally - I have only one improvement that would make me love any satnav - timed restrictions. The bridge that is closed in York is only closed between 7pm and 7am; so it'd be useful if it knew this. Also, much of the centre of York is pedestrianised during the day, but available for cars overnight; I certainly wouldn't want to submit changes that claim you can drive down Parliament Street, but it'd be very useful for me on my nightly runs around the city. I may open up the roads for myself - I don't think I'd need the satnav for most daytime trips! - but what if I were to work during the day? I'd have to correct them all back again. So, yes, the ability to add time restrictions would be fantastic.

I've had plenty of experience setting things up just how I like them, and I feel it's long overdue that I share these with everyone. It may not be quite how you want it - but it might be enough inspiration to get you on your way to setting things up as you want.

Yes, it took some time, but as I was sat in Wetherspoon's last night, I realised something else I could hook in to my twitter script.

We have a budget system that lives on the web server - we visit a web site, add purchases or income, and at the end of the month we should be able to work out how much we've saved (or not). Having bought my dinner, I was reading Facebook on the phone, when I thought it'd be useful if I could update the budget system from my mobile.

Voila! I could text to twitter with a certain hash tag and my script could handle it! Brilliant!

Admittedly in this case it's not perfect - I can only add basic information - but now the budget system will display a "temporary purchase" and ask you to fill in the fine detail the next time you visit the site. So, any time I spend money, I can text the details before I forget, and finish it off later on.

I then thought about another system I always wanted to start again - I used to keep closer track of my mileage and petrol costs, and thus miles per gallon. It's tricky to remember to jot down the mileage every time - so maybe if I could update by text, it'd help? Well, I've set up a system to record the information now, so I'll have to wait and see if I actually use it.

Finally - for general reminders - I set up the tags e[mail], r[eminder] and n[ote] to email me the tweet, for perusal at a later date.

I also set the script up to log actions so I had some sort of idea what was going on, or what strings didn't work.

I've updated the Update multiple twitter accounts via SMS from one phone page with the new script.

Ok, so my Update multiple twitter accounts via SMS from one phone covered how to use a script to send tweets from one account to many others. Simple and effective.

What if you wanted to do more? What if you wanted to control more with your tweets?

It'd be very easy to hook the script into a facebook app to update your status, for example (though I think you can already set up facebook to update your status via SMS). Or perhaps you could have a special code to look for that would do something on your server? I can't think of anything I'd want to do on mine, but then it only hosts websites - if I had a server in my house hooked up to other devices, it could do anything...