Shutdown Windows Remotely with Twitter- TweetMyPC

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.
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The application runs from the Windows system tray and checks for any new tweets for the keyword

Microsoft is ready with Windows 7

Microsoft (MSFT) said yesterday that the code for the next version of its immensely successful operating system is done. Windows 7 will replace Vista as the company’s flagship operating system when it goes on sale in PCs at the end of October.

Windows 7 may be more important to the future of the world’s largest software company than anything it has released in years.

Vista was a very limited success. A number of customers, both individuals and businesses, elected to stay with Windows XP, an earlier version of the operating system. Vista did not work well on older PCs. It was different enough from XP that many people found it hard to adapt to new futures. It was expensive. Customers could stay with XP and save the cost of upgrades.

Windows 7 is supposed to be such an important improvement over Vista that current Microsoft customers will want to get the new OS. Microsoft has dropped its pricing below what it charged for Vista. It has worked with the global software development community to assure, as much as it can, that the product will be well accepted. Early reviews of Windows 7 have been positive.

A great deal of the recent media coverage about Microsoft has been about the success of its new search engine, Bing. Microsoft’s search business is tiny compared to its software franchise. Microsoft’s online efforts also lose money while its software business has tremendous margins. Bing may be exciting, but from an earnings standpoint it is a sideshow.

Google (GOOG) has launched a number of products meant to compete with Windows, but they have a very limited number of features. A successful launch of Windows 7 would set Google’s plans back, perhaps for years.

Bing can take Microsoft’s share of the search market in the US from 9% to 20%. It can even move ahead of Yahoo! as the No.2 search company. None of that will matter much if Windows 7 is a flop.

Google Chrome OS To Be Released 2010

There is a lot of news lately with Google. What is the Google brand? Is it a Search engine? Advertising network? Free online services? A browser? Has Google now become an Operating System?



Google announced their Chrome OS to be released in 2010. Initially, it will be installed on light-weight portable NetBooks. Google Chrome OS is followed after the Chrome Browser.

Google’s primary business is search and advertising. To do so they have to get a lot of eyeballs. That is why they created the Chrome Browser. What is the point of having another browser? Well, first, the look and feel is very stripped down. Secondly and most importantly, it has true multi-threading for each tab. If a webpage you visit crashes due to a plugin, it doesn’t crash the entire browser and all your other tabs since each tab is running its own process. This is important as cloud computing becomes more and more popular. It is no different than if you are running an application on Windows XP or Mac OSX and it crashes. It should not crash your other programs as well. Once HTML 5 becomes a full standard, web applications will have just as much power as client programs and thus require stability.

The threat Google faces is competition from other companies like Microsoft. If Microsoft has another monopoly over NetBooks, they could theoretically ship a lite version of Windows with only a limited set of programs without Google. Google is playing chess and foresees this years ahead and is positioning itself to be THE online platform which it has been dominating with Gmail, Google Docs, Search, and AdSense. If a company can control the operating system or browser platform, it can be culturally significant for the future.