Windows Live Mesh to the Rescue

I use Twhirl as my Twitter client. This morning, I left it running at home when I went to work, so between my work machine and my home machine, I kept running up against Twitter’s API limits. It was frustrating, until I remembered I had a Windows Live Mesh Account.

I was able to log in to my home machine, and shut Twhirl down there, right from my desk at work. Of course, remote desktop lets you do the same thing, but only if you have remote desktop service running on the machine you want to connect to, and only if you know the ip address (or have a Dynamic DNS service pointing to your machine.)

Below I’m logging in to my home machine.

And there’s the offensive program, Twhirl. I just clicked the close button and it was gone. API limits were no longer an issue. (Click for a larger version)

Now they just need to finish that darn Mac client that they’re promising, and all will be well with the world.

~ by dogboi on May 23, 2008.