Okay, so here’s what happened. You were on a rush, and halfway across
town, you realised that you forgot to shut down your personal computer.
Your thinks-he’s-a-comedian flatmate is home and you know things are
going to get ugly if he realises that he has access to your still-on
personal computer as well as all your social networks and emails etc.
What do you do?
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If you have already setup a remote desktop or vnc on your computer,
things may be easier. You can control your PC from anywhere you are. But
if you don’t have this set up, the only thing you could do is to make
your way back across the day’s traffic to shut it down or face the
backlash.
If setting up remote desktop is too technical for you, and this thing
happens to you so often that there is a need for a contingency plan to
be set up, let us show you how you can remotely shut down your computer
with a tweet. Yes, a tweet, with
TweetMyPC.
Tweet Command Your PC
To start sending a tweet command, go to the
TweetMyPC download page and download the application for your Windows PC.
Open the downloaded file and click
Install.
Once installed, launch the application and sign in with your Twitter account.
Enter your username and password, and click
Authorize App.
You will be given a
PIN, copy this pin.
Go back to TweetMyPC application on your PC, paste the pin in the given column and click
OK.
Now you are ready to send a command to your PC from your Twitter account. To find available commands, go to
About and select
Basic Command List.
This link will open a webpage on which there is a list of available
commands you can tweet to your PC: shutdown, restart, lock, logoff and
many more. There is also command to do a screenshot, for when you want
to find out what’s going on, on your PC while you are not using it.
There are many commands available for your reference, you just have
to tweet it on your Twitter account. If you want to command Standby,
simply tweet ‘standby’, and your PC will follow the instruction.
When you tweet a command from your Twitter account, your tweet status
will appear and TweetMyPC will recognize it and send an instruction to
your computer. After the instruction is sent to your computer, it will
then auto-post a tweet status to your Twitter account.
On your computer, once the command is received, TweetMyPC will acknowledge the instruction with a notification popup.
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