#TweetMyPC is an app by @shobankr that allows one to remotely control their computer by Twitter messages.
(For the uninitiated, Twitter is a very popular micro-blogging service, with ~10 million users).

And even cooler, with an SMS message that stops a Software Agent from sending heartbeats, one can block the network connection with System Defense. System Defense can block the specific protocol or port at a remote SMS command from the road. Forgot a VoiceOverIP application connected?

In the future, technologies like AMT will be spread enough and eas y to use enough for us to have such a straightforward interface. We will see semantic parsers that will let us text our machines “block all connections apart from port 31426, update the antivirus and then shutdown”. I believe this simplicity and this availability w ill come.

I’ll not get into deep details about the application, but it does have many features (shutdown, restart, standby