Experimenting with Bluetooth and my new t610 I downloaded Salling Clicker. This is way cool.
It allows you to remote control almost everything in your Mac with your mobile phone. I can use my phone as remote control for iTunes, the DVD player or Keynote.
But best of all, it sports a proximity sensor. Now, when I walk away from my Mac, the screen blanker is automatically activated and iTunes stops. When I come back, the screen is unlocked again, iTunes resumes playing and my address book and calendar are automatically synchronized. Cool.
Update: Now my computer reads the number of unread emails when I enter the room. With AppleScript I could teach him to give me an update on almost any other things, like buddies online or upcoming meetings and deadlines.
When I think about it, the next neat thing would be voice control to work over the phone, which really has a much better suited microphone than the one integrated in the PowerBook and is with me all the time. Feels very much like Star Trek. Very geeky stuff.
Posted by seefeld at August 7, 2003 10:51makes you wanna ditch out those 10 bucks shareware-fee!
i used romeo (freeware) up to now, but the salling clicker is so much fancier!
:( i can't post html, i wanted to make a link to romeo ( http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/18573&vid=96020 )
Posted by: HABi at August 7, 2003 03:06 PMfound something for windows, that lets you control applications via the mobile phone:
http://www.christersson.org/software.php
Posted by: urs at August 8, 2003 02:41 PMOK, now all I need is a Linux software that can do that. Oh, and a BlueTooth capable cellphone. It's a shame my Nokia 7250 has no bluetooth support (my old 6310i had it!)
Posted by: Chris at August 9, 2003 12:44 AM