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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.
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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). -
Same here. Also, would be cool if you could use your laptop as a speakerphone, courtesy of Bluetooth.
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‘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.
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Hmmn, I’m not sure I get what you mean - that sounds like a way to get my land line ‘phone to ring…
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‘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!
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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)
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