Have you ever been away from your Mac and wanted to remotely control it with your Twitter account.
Yah, me either. But an interesting utility called Tweet My Mac lets you do exactly that.
Tweet My Mac lets you get screenshots, iSight snapshots, and your IP address from your Mac just by
sending a direct message to your specially setup Mac controlling account. You can start torrents remotely, shutdown your Mac and more.
But as soon as I found out about this app, I realized all of the uses it could be put to.
- Someone stealing your Mac? Remotely take a picture of them!
- Need that Ubuntu install when you get home, use Tweet My Mac to start a “legal” torrent
- Want to spook your friends (or the burglar that stole your Mac)? Use Tweet My Mac to have your Mac read any text you enter, up to 140 characters of course.
- Forget to lock your Mac and are worrying about your significant other (or burglar for that matter) looking at your confidential files? Use Tweet My Mac to remotely lock your Mac!
How does this life saving service work? All you have to do is make a new Twitter account and name it something like @myimac. Then, follow your main account you use on Twitter.
Note: Make sure you DONT follow anyone else on that account, they will have control over your Mac!
Once you do that, your done! You can enjoy sending tweets to your mac, and even have it respond to you. (You’ll know what I mean when your try it)
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