Comments on: Shut down your PC or Mac with a text message

By: Joey Simpson

Joey Simpson — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 23:19:54 +0000

Was originally posted on HacknMod, crunchgear didn’t give them credit though.

http://www.hacknmod.com/hack/how-to-shutdown-your-computer-with-a-cell-phone/

By: Temo

Temo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:32:50 +0000

Well I just need a bit more info on how to get outlook to get your text message.

By: Temo

Temo — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:09:17 +0000

so… can you guys just write a regular Text Guide. Because my internet is slower than 56k..

Thanks in advance.

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Sammuta tietokoneesi tekstiviestillä | Wautsi.Com — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 09:34:58 +0000

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By: Joel Strellner

Joel Strellner — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:35:09 +0000

Twitter would be a good alternative. It could replace qwiry and outlook, but would require you to write some other custom app to parse your feed.

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Shut down your PC or Mac with a text message | Flexta : SMS — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:06:01 +0000

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By: mb

mb — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:01:20 +0000

A few suggestions:
1. call your batch file something other than shutdown.bat to prevent possible conflicts with shutdown.exe
2. you can skip the qwiry step if you send a text mms message to your account
3. for security, i’d suggest setting up the rule to also check the sender address

anybody have any ideas of how to do this without requiring outlook or e-mail client to be running?