The Smiling Pirate » twitter http://www.thesmilingpirate.com Sharing Quality Freeware & Open-Source Applications Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:17:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Use Twitter to Shutdown Your PC and More! http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/use-twitter-to-shutdown-your-pc-and-more/ http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/use-twitter-to-shutdown-your-pc-and-more/#comments Fri, 25 Sep 2009 03:11:32 +0000 thesmilingpirate http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/?p=1015

TweetMyPC v2.0 lets you shutdown/restart/LogOff and lots more in your Windows PC remotely.

Setup is simple.

  • Download the setup file and Install.
  • Go to www.Twitter.com and create a new Twitter account for your PC (This is optional as TweetMyPC only responds for updates). This account will be used by TweetMyPC to monitor for new tweets
  • Start TweetMyPC and then fill in the login details. Wait for some time for the application to verify your login details.

Double click the Twitter Icon to start TweetMyPC
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  • TweetMyPC checks for new tweets every 1 minute.

Download TweetMyPC here

]]> http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/use-twitter-to-shutdown-your-pc-and-more/feed/ 0 Can Clicking Short URL’s Be Like Taking a Long Walk Off a Short Pier? http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/can-clicking-short-urls-be-like-taking-a-long-walk-off-a-short-pier/ http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/can-clicking-short-urls-be-like-taking-a-long-walk-off-a-short-pier/#comments Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:35:28 +0000 admin http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/?p=919

Shortened URL’s date back to 2001  but have become extremely popular since the inception of Twitter. A URL that is 60 characters long can be shortened to about 15 characters by simply using a short-pierURL shortening service. Once of the most popular services to date is TinyURL which was used by Twitter up until 2009. Now Twitter uses bit.ly to shorten URL’s.

Now, we can all agree that URL shortening is essential for applications such as Twitter and can be very helpful when you have to share a URL with someone since they are easier to remember. But how safe are the short URL’s that these services are providing? Do you really know where the short URL is going to take you? We’re putting our confidence in these shortening services and hoping that they aren’t directing these short URL’s to a malicious page with malware or a virus or a page with pornographic content.

Knowing that your next short URL could possibly be compromised, why not take the extra step to ensure that it isn’t before sending it out to the world? Longurl.org is a site that provides a standard API for multiple URL shortening services that will show you a preview of your short URL. You can see exactly where the link will take you if you were to click on it. You can now browse the Web comfortably knowing where that short URL is going to take you.

Grab a short URL and visit Longurl.org to try it for yourself.

]]> http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/09/can-clicking-short-urls-be-like-taking-a-long-walk-off-a-short-pier/feed/ 0 The Smiling Pirate is now on Twitter! http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/08/the-smiling-pirate-is-now-on-twitter/ http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/2009/08/the-smiling-pirate-is-now-on-twitter/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 02:41:09 +0000 admin http://www.thesmilingpirate.com/?p=515

If you follow The Smiling Pirate for free software, you can now follow us on Twitter as well. All new posts on TheSmilingPirate.com will also be posted on Twitter. Keep up with the Pirate Posts while on the go. Search smilingpirate on Twitter.

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