How to remotely shut down your PC via SMS!

Here’s a cool HOWTO on remotely shutting down your PC via SMS. This might come in handy for all you automators…

I recently read an article on lifehacker that explained how to shut down windows with a text message.
(http://lifehacker.com/software/remote-computing/shutdown-windows-with-a-text-message-172873.php)
Although I think this is a really cool idea, I don’t own microsoft outlook and I wanted to figure out a more portable way to go about setting up this project on my computer.

With an add-on and a few tweaks, it is possible configure this, with a portable copy of Mozilla Thunderbird.
This should take < 10 minutes to set up and configure.

via Hak5

2 Responses to How to remotely shut down your PC via SMS!

1. seo says:

   May 3, 2008 at 1:48 am

   And then your friend decides to send you a text and your computer dies 😀
2. max says:

   May 3, 2008 at 3:15 am

   Lol…that’s a good one.