Murphy Mail

Say you’re on travel and you forgot to bring along your critical file. What to do? You have several options (virtual desktop, remote desktop, call someone, etc). Now we have another option. Murphy Mail!

With Murphy Mail you just email your home computer the path and filename to what you want, and it will generate a respond email with the attached file. Wahoo! Granted it needs your home computer to be on… or periodically unsleep itself to run a few rule macros, but it's a quite fascinating option.

Murphy Mail requires use of Mail.app and works only with Macs email client.

However, Windows users can use Shantz Macro for outlook to accomplish the same thing.

Geeky Applications:

• Great way for remote desktop access from anything Internet enabled
• Easily configurable to plant on a friends computer to send pre-form emails at your will, or even execute programs
  

Pros:

• Never really have to remember to bring files along

Cons:

• Requires computer to be on and you to remember paths and filenames
• Very limited functionality when compared to other full featured remote-desktop options
  

I believe both of these could be made much cooler if they exploited the "wake on LAN" feature through a ping to the IP address. And then allowed you to get some DOS-esque directory search features because who actually remembers directory/filename info?