Shutdown Windows by SMS

Link: Shutdown Windows with a text message – Lifehacker.

Blogger Tim Matheson has an interesting tutorial for remotely shutting down Windows via SMS and Outlook.

Basically you setup a rule in outlook to look for say a keyword in the subject line of an email. Then you select run application as the action for when that keyword is found.

This one caught my attention! I’ve read about similar techniques for Apple’s using some sort of Applescript. Cool!