Imagine you are away from your house and suddenly you remember that you forgot to turn your computer off. What are you going to do? Return home and turn it off? How about sending a tweet and putting your computer to rest.

An India-based techie @shobankr has developed a Windows application that allows you to shut down, log off or restart your Windows PC by sending a tweet. TweetMyPC can be a great tool for those who want to remote control their computer. Just use your cell phone to send a tweet and the computer will turn itself off. If you don't have access to Twitter using a cell phone, the Web is always there. Log in to Twitter and say shutdown.

1. Download and install TweetMyPC.
2. Create a Twitter account for your PC.
3. Double-click on the Twitter icon in the system tray and fill in the details of the account.
4. Allow TweetMyPC some time to verify details and get started.

Now whenever you want to shutdown, restart or logoff, just tweet the same from your PC's Twitter account. It can be done using a phone as well if yours has an Internet connection. You can also integrate your phone with this Twitter account (if it is supported in your country, at least the facility is available in the US, UK and India) and turn off your computer by sending a tweet from your cell phone.

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