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You can do lots of fun and useful things with a Bluetooth-enabled mobile telephone and a Mac running OS X.
The excellent Salling Clicker allows you to control iTunes or DVDPlayer from your ‘phone, among many other things. Romeo has similar functionality, and an ever-expanding feature set thanks to user-contributed plugins. The Address Book has caller ID functions, and lets you carry on SMS conversations from your computer, and a new application called BluePhoneMenu expands on these features.
But I still can’t find an application that will let me make my ‘phone ring so I can find the bloody thing.
Given that all the applications mentioned above can do all manner of wild and wonderful things, I can’t imagine it would be impossible for a canny developer to whip up a menu item, dockling or what have you, that, with a single click or key combination, would cause my t610 to ring.
I would gladly pay for such a thing - not much, admittedly - since I lose track of my ‘phone at least three times a day, and having to dial my mobile number from my land line is such a chore.
I will ping the LazyWeb with this post, in the vain hope that someone awfully clever will hear my anguished cry, and make me the application of my dreams. I even have a crappy name prepared: RingRingFindMyBloodyPhone.
em, I’d pay for that too.
in fact I’d pay for someone to write that application, ever so useful for messy old me. (and you, obviously).
Posted by Donna at 8pm on 02.05.04
Same here. Also, would be cool if you could use your laptop as a speakerphone, courtesy of Bluetooth.
Posted by Mark Nottingham at 11pm on 02.05.04
‘tis simple. Get a modem for your mac, and plug this into the phone line alongside the phone. Then make an internet connection (not default - you don’t want it to auto-connect), and put it on your desktop. when you want to find your phone, just open this, and your phone will ring. - should work for any computer who’s OS allows dial-up internet.
The great thing about this, is that you most likely have a modem in your computer, and ringing the phone is free, as long as your call isn’t answered by your voicemail.
Posted by ME at 10am on 03.05.04
Hmmn, I’m not sure I get what you mean - that sounds like a way to get my land line ‘phone to ring…
Posted by Jack at 1pm on 03.05.04
‘ME’ has a good idea. You basically create a dial-up connection with your mobile phone number as the number to dial. Then just follow the usual ringing noise.
No need to bother with bluetooth!
Posted by Neil T. at 8pm on 03.05.04
Ah, I get it.
The only problem there is that I’d have to buy a modem cable, and be permenantly wired up to the phone line (I use Airport to connect to the internet at the moment)
Posted by Jack at 10am on 04.05.04