How to Shutdown your Computer with a Cell Phone


You can remotely shut down your computer from anywhere in the world using any cell phone with texting capabilities and Mozilla Thunderbird, a Mac, or Microsoft Outlook. It’s pretty simple to accomplish and the video above guides you through the step by step setup process.

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Comment:
 
Sylvanus

November 17th, 2008

Its Cooll

Larry

November 22nd, 2008

haha i tried this…looks like it might of worked but i have outlook express and it does not have the option to “start application” which i think is in step four…so close…yet so far! but definatly cool trick. If anyone has any hacks to include this option please let me know!

Cristian

November 28th, 2008

Haha, that’s really clever. Never thought of that.

@Larry: Try installing a proper client, like Mozilla Firebird or Microsoft Office Outlook.

christian t

December 12th, 2008

i cant make an account on microsoft outlook. it cant log onto outgoing server. how do i fix it?

Joe L

December 12th, 2008

Ummm…Did you set up the email client correctly to work with your account?

Miche

December 25th, 2008

Cool stuff 2 know

Vilhelm

January 9th, 2009

Wouldn’t it be easier to just text your email account and skip kwiry all together?

Joe L

January 9th, 2009

I suppose you could text your email, yea.

gf

January 28th, 2009

i cant get it to work on vista

Joe L

January 28th, 2009

hmmm….well…try it a different way? downgrade to xp or wait until windows 7?

hassan

February 19th, 2009

plzz email me cool and easy hacks,.thnx

INIT_6

March 16th, 2009

Not sure if this will work. I will have to watch it a couple more times and try it out. I am wondering if I send you a e-mail with that subject line or even e-mail pop3 packet shaping to accomplish this I could just randomly shutdown your computer. So if you do this don’t tell your friends :)

Matt Bennett

March 24th, 2009

When you setup your rule be sure and add a rule to only use your number, if your an AT&T customer when you send your email address a text message it comes from “YourCell#@txt.at&t.net” if you set this as part of your rule you would not have to worry about anyone other then your number shutting your computer down.

Rajesh Iyer

April 10th, 2009

Thanks a million for sharing this.

shahnawaz Khan

May 21st, 2009

Its Cool. How can i download this video.

Greg

July 16th, 2009

neat, turn back on with a text, then ill be impressed xD