Use Twitter application for pc remotely
October 16th, 2009 by adminWith a maximal 140 characters Twitter has seemed a limit in a software developing. But I am really wrong, there are a twitter application that can control you PC remotely. With another gadged like blackberry you can restart or shut down PC in your home.
TweetMyPC is a free computer software that lets you to control PC in long destination. It will perform your command in computer as soon as you send it in tweet.To start, you need download the software on tweetmypc.codeplex.com and install into your computer (available for windows and macs). You have to connect the software to a your twitter account to control remotely.
Here are some of the main things that the application can do for you:
1. Shutdown/ Restart your PC : To do it, just tweet ‘restart’, ant the software will restart your computer as soon as TweetMyPC retrieve the tweet. To shutdown, just type “shutdown”. Another similiar tasks : “Logoff”, “Reboot”, “Lock”, “Hibernate”, “Standby”
2. Download the file in your computer : Imagine if you find a useful think in the internet, and you really want download it. But the file is bigger than capacity in blackberry. So how to do that? just tweet “download URL”. This application will automatically start downloading the file from the URL into PC. But to do it remotely you must short the url with a bit.ly
3. Get a file from your PC : Just tweet “get” followed by file path. But the file will be sent in your GMAIL account. So it will not save in Blackberry, iphone or another gadget.
4. Get Screenshot of your system : you can just tweet “Screenshot”. TweetMyPC will grab a screenshot of your PC, and post it on Twitpic. It ‘s i fyou care about your PC home.
It is recommended that you create a separate Twitter account for this twitter applicationrather than use your primary Twitter account. And don’t forget to disable public access, if you don’t use these steps your computer will be remotely by another person.