Control your Mac with Bluetooth
March 30, 2007
Jesse David Hollington has created a series of Apple scripts that allow you to control your Mac using your mobile phone’s bluetooth signal. The tool Jesse chose for the purpose of the detection itself was a little free app appropriately called Proximity. This is a thin little program that does one thing, but does it well—that is to sit in the background and scan for a given Bluetooth device at regular intervals.
When it detects a change in the device’s availability, it simply calls one of two Applescripts: One for the device leaving range, and another for when the device enters range.
When the Bluetooth Device enters range:
- Deactivate the Screen Saver Password.
- Deactivate the Screen Saver.
- Reconnect the phone to the OS X Address Book
- Sync the phone using iSync
When the Bluetooth Device leaves range:
- Activate the Screen Saver Password.
- Activate the Screen Saver.
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