We talked about Tweet My PC, which is an alternative way to control your computer using your twitter account. This way you can lock, shutdown or logoff your computer from any where connected on twitter. This was the first version.

The second version is absolutely blast. Here is the list of commands  you can start doing using Tweet My PC 2.0 :

Note : Commands are no more case sensitive now which was a problem in the first version.

1. replies
2. physical memory
3. virtual memory
4. os
5. ip
6. standby
7. hibernate
8. screenshot
9. getprocesslist
10. kill <process id>
11. download <url>
12. getfile <filepath>
13. getfilelist <drive>
14. Custom Command

Most of them are the normal commands but I found 1, 8, 11,12,13 and 14 pretty useful and here are some more details.

Replies :

These are acknowledgments of the command  status from the TMPC. This makes sure that what you tried actually happened.

Screenshot :

This is useful if you would like to know if somebody is accessing your computer. However this would work if somebody is there and will send you a screen shot of how your desktop looks like at that moment. This is like taking a remote screenshot / screen capture of your computer.

download <url>

This will be probablyly the most useful command of TMPC 2.0. This command allows you to download a file on your computer by a simple tweet which looks like download http:// bit.ly/somexyz.

This way you can download any file while you are on the way to home or you are off for 2-3 days and still have it ready when you come back.

This will use only bit.ly shortedned url so make sure your shorten the url before tweeting.

Searching for files getfile <filepath> and getfilelist <drive>

If nobody is there at your pc to help you out, this can be useful in case you want to make search for a particular file . When you find it just email it to a predefined email id which you can configure.

This is useful when you are going for an important meeting and did forget some files where were required.

Custom Command :

This the second coolest feature of TMPC 2.0. Tweet My PC allows you to create custom command. You can select any program which you want to run and give it a name.

So for example when you reach home, you want music to be on. Just link to a play list and name it as PlaySongs and you are done. By the time you open the door, music will be on to set your mood. Awesome!!

This is a major enhancement in how you can do some of the things on your PC remotely. You can download TMPC 2.0 from here.

After done this here are few suggestion to the author from my side :

As a summary.

I feel odd tweeting lock or shutdown or even download publicly. I mean those make sense to me but not to others. Why not have a separate account that can be used with twitter and I can keep on sending Direct Message to get my job done.

In Detail :

• Many a time I would like to lock or shutdown my pc but I would not like to tell this to the world nor I would like to share what I am downloading. Is is possible that I can create a separate account  to which I can send DM ( direct message ) and TMPC can read and do it. This way I will have all my activities personal.
• Why is only GMAIL being used ? I would like to have any email providers configured. This is important if we need to target a large mass.
• How about options to run command with parameters. If I can select a program I would also like to pass parameter. If there are some options for that I would set it right on TMPC.
• Since now we are playing with Files and more access to computer, How about a secure key which is sent along with command like shutdown or download to make sure that even if somebody has got into my account cannot do certain things without the secure key. A DM is required in this case.

So what do you think ?