Sometimes we forget to shut down our PC while going out. Or sometimes we just leave without shutting down our PC. So It would be great if there is a way of remote shutdown of PC.
Well there is, and quite easy I must say. I have looked up for different method and got this one the most easy one, only a two phase job.
All you need is a twitter account, a G-mail account and Mobile phone. So why wait? Let us go and do it right now.
Phase 1: Setting up your PC
# If you don’t have a second twitter-account just for TweetMyPC, then go to http://twitter.com, and create another account by clicking at “Sign up now” and fill out the formula.
# Now read security information and make your tweets private.
# After you finished creating and configuring the twitter-account, start TweetMyPC by opening the shortcut for the application at your desktop
# The main window of TweetMyPC will now pop up – fill in the needed data. Info: if you don’t enter username and password to a google-email-account, then commands like getprocesslist, getfile and getfilelist will not be usable!
# Now press the Save&Hide button to activate TweetMyPC
Phase 2: How to Send Commands to the Remote Computer
Now that your basic configuration is done, it’s time to set up a posting method. You can use email, SMS, IM, web or any of the Twitter clients to send commands to the remote computer.
By Email: Associate you Twitter account with Posterous (auto-post) and all email messages sent to twitter@posterous.com will therefore become commands for the remote computer.
By SMS: If you live in US, UK, Canada, India, Germany, Sweden or New Zeleand, you can send associate Twitter with your mobile phone (see list of numbers) and then control your remote computer via SMS Text Messages.
By IM: Add the Twitter bot – twitter@twitter.com – to your list of Google Talk buddies and you can then send commands via instant message.
By Web: If you are on vacation but have access to an internet connected laptop/mobile, just log into the Twitter website and issue commands (e.g., shutdown or logoff) just as another tweet.
Here is the list of commands you can start doing using Tweet My PC
| Command | Purpose |
|---|---|
| shutdown | This command will shut down your computer after showing a warning and a wait-time of one minute. |
| restart | restartsyour computer after a warning and a one minute delay |
| standby | Don’t want to shutdown? Then you can make your pc go to standby mode with this command. |
| hibernate | This command will hibernate your computer after showing a warning and a wait-time of one minute |
| lock | This command locks your Windows pc – TweetMyPC will still continue running and answer to tweets |
| logoff | Locking the account is not what you want? Try logoff to log off your Windows-Account and close all programs |
| abortshutdown | You accidentally tweeted shutdown or hibernate? Don’t worry. You still can stop it by tweeting “abortshutdown” to stop it – if you are fast enough! |
| physical memory | As the name says, this command will let you know the free Physical Memory of your pc |
| virtual memory | Want to know the free virtual memory of your pc? Just tweet virtual memory |
| os | This is one of the command which does not have much value. Tweeting “os” will make TweetMyPC to tweet about your Operating System version. |
| ip | Know your pc’s internal and external IP-Address from anywhere in the world with this command |
| screenshot | Want to know what is happening in your pc when you are not around? Just tweet screenshot and TweetMyPC will take a screenshot of your desktop and post it to Twitpic. |
| getprocesslist | This is one of the very useful commands. On receiving this command TweetMyPC will generate a list of running programs, along with the process ID, and email it to a predefined email address. |
| kill <process id> | This is used along with the above command. Once you receive the process list you can close a program using the kill command. |
| download <URL> | Want to download an interesting video but you are on the move? Don’t worry - just tweet download followed by the download URL and TweetMyPC will download it for you and it will be ready when you return back. Note: Twitter automatically converts long URLs into short one using bit.ly. TweetMyPC can download files only if the URL is in the short form for security reasons. Please use bit.ly to shorten your URL before posting. |
| getfile <filepath> | Missed an important document and you are traveling somewhere? No problem. Just tweet get followed by the file path and TweetMyPC will email the file as attachment to a predefined email. Don’t know the path? Don’t worry. Just checkout the next command. |
| getfilelist <drive> | This command will make TweetMyPC to send you the list of files and folders in a drive. You can use this command to email you a file once you know the complete path of the file. |
| volinc | Increases the volume of the main speaker by 20% |
| voldec | Decreases the volume of the main speaker by 20% |
| volmute | Mutes the main speaker |
| volunmute | Un-mutes the main speaker |
| wallpaper <URL> | You found a nice image and want to use set it as background at your TweetMyPC-Computer? Just use this command with the URL of the Image to set it fast and easy from anywhere! |
| url <URL> | This command helps a lot for example if you find a website, a document or a download-file you want to review it at your computer. Then you can just open the URL by using this command, and see it at the screen when you are back at the pc. (the url has to start with http:// or www |
| powerstate | This tweets the battery-state (Charging or not, if power-cable is plugged in and how long the remaining battery-running-time is) |
| uptime | makes TweetMyPC send you the timespan that your computer is running since the last reboot as days.hours:minutes:seconds |
| ping | When TweetMyPC reads this, it will answer that it is running and checks for tweets – This is really helpful to see if TweetMyPC is working and if your commands will have any effect. +fun link ;-) try it! |
| message <your message-text> | Thanks to this command you can send a custom message to your computer, which will be shown as message-box, so you can communicate with other people sitting in front of your computer or just send a notification to yourself to read them later. |
| stopscr | This stops the screensaver |
| darkscreen | darkens/turns off your screen for example to save energy or to hide what the desktop shows |
| print <URL> | TweetMyPC will download and then print the specified file - currently just .doc, .docx or *.pdf supported |
| <Custom Command> <optional with parameters> | This is the most interesting feature of TweetMyPC. You think the above list of commands is not enough? No problem! With this new release of TweetMyPC you can start any program or shell-command with parameters just by using twitter and this program! You can start any program you want by adding it in the CustomCommand-Window of TweetMyPC and then tweeting the specified name of it. But also you can just add parameters to the tweets. Thanks to this you can now for example start your torrent-client with the torrent download-url as parameter or you can open Winamp and play a webstream, local file or whatever you want. (Example: add %windir%\system32\cmd.exe in the custom-commands window and tweet “command /K defrag /M /U” – see http://ss64.com/nt/cmd.html |
Note : Commands are no more case sensitive.
Enjoy.
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