Turn Off Your Office Computer from Home! No, you don’t have to ask Johnny from maintenance to do it for you

I know this happens at least once to you. You had a very busy day at work, but alas, your shift is up and you can finally go home to rest in your soft, four post bed. You’re finally home, took a warm, relaxing shower, and slipped into your favorite PJ about to hit the sack when … suddenly that sinking feeling. Did you turnoff your computer before rushing to that elevator door earlier?

Whew! Now your entire hard-thought ad concept you’re going to sell to your boss the next morning is out for grabs by your idea-hungry colleagues. And you know you can’t trust your cubicle neighbor, Mike, right? What will you do? Would you rush back to your office in your PJ, or would you open your laptop and turn off your office PC remotely from home. Can you really do that? With TweetMyPC, yes you can.

You can now turn off any Windows run machine remotely using an open application: TweetMyPC. In order to do this, you need to install the open application on the machine that you want to remotely control. Then you need to associate your Twitter account to TweetMyPC so that turning your computer will just be as easy as sending a Tweet to it. (Twitter, is there anything else it can’t do?)

To turnoff a computer using TweetMyPC, just update your Twitter account with the word “Shutdown” and the computer on the receiving end would take the command and shuts down itself. Cool, huh. You could remotely execute a whole bunch of other commands to any PC with TweetMyPC such as hibernate, standby, lock, kill + the process ID, and even screenshot. The rest are pretty self explanatory, but what about screenshot?

Screenshot is a command you can remotely execute to make the receiving computer send its real time screenshot to you. How cool is that … not to mention very useful too! There are also a bunch of other ways you can remotely send the commands like via email, IM, and even SMS.

Now you don’t have to worry about making it to your office before Mike gets his hands on your office computer keyboard. You have beaten him in a flash with TweetMyPC. Now go ahead and take your well deserved beauty sleep.

Take Your Multitasking Skills to the Next Level

First of all, let me apologize for the long hiatus on your source of useful tips to spend a free time wisely. I'm back now but don’t give a cold shoulder on me. I got you a very nifty tool to take your multitasking skills to the next level!

It's called Double Vision browser. Yes, it's another browser adding to the long list of browsers you have installed on your machine. But once you know what this one does, I'm sure you'd install this too.

Double Vision browser lets you watch YouTube videos or any other online videos while typing a memo on Word without switching back and forth between Word and the browser window. And no, you don’t need to resize the windows, use the maximized size for the two if you want.

Double Vision browser let's you set it into transparent mode so that you can see and work on other programs running while watching your video on Double Vision. Cool, huh? But what if your boss is fast coming to your workstation … shock and horror, quick, give me that close button. Hold on. In Double Vision browser, you can just hit CTRL+ESC button on your keyboard and the browser tucks itself away from your screen and even from your taskbar taking with it all the sight and sound of the video you're watching. Thanks Double Vision!

So guys, there you have it - my peace offering for not posting for so long in my beloved blog.