Controlling your Mac via email

“Have you ever been away from your Mac and wanted to shut down, restart, or needed to open an application remotely, but didn’t have access to anything except your iPhone? Well, I am going to show you how to do these tasks with AppleScript and Mail,” Cory Bohon reports for TUAW.

Bohon reports, “This process is fairly easy and involves creating a simple AppleScript and some Mail rules. Note that since these rules will cause your Mac to perform the listed action when they run, be careful when testing!”

Bohon covers:
• Creating the AppleScripts
– Shutdown
– Restart
– Sleep
• Saving your AppleScript
• Setting the Mail rules
• Running the script remotely

Full article here.

43 Comments

  1. @Re: Ampar…
    Uh… I think you confused Ampar’s post which is HUMOROUS with political speech. As is “Me In LA” ‘s post about Al Gore.

    turn on your humor gene, chill, and leave the political rants to shen.

  2. @Ampar

    “You know he can Tipper on her side with those 3 thirty inchers.”

    Buddy, I must say it again… you crack me up! MDN should issue you a per-joke stipend. Just one of the things that keeps me coming back to this website…

    Out of curiosity, does the writing work you do for a living include humor, or are we just the lucky beneficiaries of your wit?

    Keep ’em coming!

  3. 7over – you saved me some typing. I was reading what some have said about this being a security hole and could hardly believe it. Some people just shoot from the hip I guess.

    Now I wish I could send a magic email that would wake my machine.

  4. And thanks, Jim – TIV.

    “turn on your humor gene, chill, and leave the political rants to shen.”

    That’s funny! But sadly, I think a few lost souls are missing that gene and possibly a few others.

  5. Yes, by all means, talk the talk about free speech being important, but when it counters your ideals, by all means it must be shut down (never walking the walk).

    “We embrace diversity and tolerance, but only for our views”.

    (This is aimed down both sides of the political aisle, BTW.)

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