How To Access and Control your Computer by Sending a Twitter Message ?

Most time when you want to connect two personal computers you need a Server between them to get access and forward the wanted data because firewalls often block direct connections and most people don't have internet-connections with static IPs.

For example if you use Skype or another instant messenger, your client connects to a server which 'manages' all the data-transferring and tells the clients the addresses of the other computers. But why should you develop a complete-Server-Client-system just for sending a few short messages to your computer, if there are simple systems like Twitter? This service gives users a really easy and fast way of communication.

Twitter already is a stable system for which there are many libraries software-developers can easily use to connect with their programs to twitter. Another advantage of twitter is that the users can even send messages called "tweets" using your mobile phones independent from where they are! And exactly this is what we need for TweetMyPC!

TweetMyPC is a little software-application for Windows, written in VB.Net using the .Net-Framework v3.0, which allows you to control and access your computer from anywhere by simply sending a twitter-message with a special command as its content.

Many people now think why they should use TweetMyPC if there are things like Remote Desktop or vnc; but as already said before, you still need the IP-Address and often an open port for being able to use these technologies - this is not needed with TweetMyPC and it also would be more work to do.

The application “listens” intently to all of the “tweet” messages that you send out from your Twitter account. Whenever you issue a command such as Shutdown, Restart, or Logoff – the computer does exactly as it’s told.

Just install the application, go into settings and enter your Twitter credentials.

Click “Save and Close,” and you’re done! No complicated security configuration, no tweaking your router’s internet settings – just install the app, insert your Twitter credentials and you’re golden. Finally, go into your Twitter account and just issue your command.

The convenience of this restart technique are the awesome possibilities. Just imagine, now you can pull out your cellphone and text a Twitter “Restart” update to reboot your computer. Any place where you can access your Twitter account, you can issue one of these three commands to your remote computer.

Do you know of any other cool ways to remotely reboot your PC? Share your own tips in the comments section.

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TwitFooter.com : Shows your latest tweets inside your email.

Email signatures allow you to passively offer your contact information, website and social profiles to anyone you communicate with via email. A Canadian-based startup has developed a Twitter tool called TwitFooter that displays tweets in the footer of your email signatures.

TwitFooter is a free web service that will allow you to add the latest tweets in your email signature. That means everytime you post new tweets, your Twitter status will automatically be updated in your email, even the ones already sent! TwitFooter does not use any javascript to update your tweets but instead generates a small image representing your last update.

What you have to do is to copy paste the code in you email signature. Go to the link given at the end of this post. Login with your twitter account. Allow the access to your account. Choose the option Copy (do not manually copy the code, sometimes it might not work) and then paste it in the signature.

If you’re a blogger or content creator this tool could be useful because TwitFooter will post your latest articles (through tweets) within every email you create. It also features statistics that track inbound clicks from emails. TwitFooter is a free tool that supports Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook Express, Windows Mail and Outlook 2003 & 2007.

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The Who, Why, And How Of Twitter ?

Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and microblogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page.

Twitter was produced in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and launched in July. Since then Twitter has gained popularity worldwide and is estimated to have 200 million users, generating 190 million tweets a day and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet".

Now that Twitter has been in operation for a few years, have you ever wondered about the stats behind people and businesses who use it? Then here is your chance to find out. This handy infographic lets you know about things such as the people who are most likely to use Twitter, the number of tweets sent per day, how people use Twitter, what they use it for, and more.

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