We have seen many simple free application to shutdown Windows, now here is another simple tool which can shutdown/logoff/restart your PC remotely with a tweet. TweetMyPC is a free utility that lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff your windows PC remotely. The usage is really simple and the application checks for new tweets every one min. So you can Tweet either shutdown, restart or logoff with your account and this application will detect it automatically.
How to use this application;
1. Create a new Twitter account for your PC and this can be used only for the purpose or shutdown or restart.
2. Download the application and install it on your Windows.
3. Log in with the newly created twitter ID and password.
4. Now whenever you want to restart/shutdown the PC, update your Twitter account with the keyword. The keywords are- shutdown, restart, logoff.
The application runs from the Windows system tray and checks for any new tweets for the keyword.
So if you want to shutdown a remote PC, make sure that you have this utility installed.
This sounds like a great piece of software. Unfortunately, I cannot try it out at the moment because I am using Ubuntu. I will recommend it to a few friends though.
It doesn’t work with Vista! 🙁 Parameters aren’t recorded when shutting down the computer…
It does work with vista because that is the OS i am running and it just shutdown