Shutdown your Macbook from a Remote Computer

You just left office for a dinner at your friend’s place leaving your Mac unlocked. That’s a scary situation because you have too much confidential data on your Macbook that you don’t want the world to see.

Now you can either rush back to office to shutdown the Mac manually or just send a message using your mobile phone and the computer will shutdown automatically without you having to leave that delicious dinner.

That’s possible through TweetMyMac – a free Mac utility that lets you remote control a Mac from anywhere with a simple tweet or a SMS text message. Here’s how you can get it working.

Step 1. Create an account on Twitter and from the settings, choose "Protect my updates" – the world won’t be able to read what you post on Twitter.

Step 2. Install the TweetMyMac application on your Macbook and associate the application with the Twitter account you created in the previous step.

Step 3. Now whenever you want to shutdown your Mac, just send a Direct Message to your twitter account with the command. For instance, shutdown will shutdown the Mac without saving any open files while the command sleep will put your Mac to sleep.

The rest happens automatically. TweetMyMac will download your tweets at frequent intervals and will act based on the commands embedded in the tweets.

References: Remotely Control your Mac from Anywhere