Currently Listening To: Isn't it Romantic? from the album "Frasier"
My Bluetooth adaptor arrived this morning at the decent hour of about 9am. Naturally I signed for it and immediately returned to my bed.
When I eventually surfaced I plugged in the adaptor and iSynced my phone. It was absolutely, the coolest thing ever.
I quickly downloaded all the photo's I had taken with my phone's camera and was pleasantly surprised at their quality (which is shrunk to about 30% in the snapshot window). I also altered my phone's background to a snippit of my Desktop background (a picture of the Hong Kong skyline taken from a position other than the peak, the height of photographic unorthodoxy).
I quickly yearned for more cool stuff to do with my new adaptor and downloaded Salling Click. I installed it, set up my phone with the default menu, opened up it's iTunes controller and pressed the phone's joystick. iTunes started playing, I pressed it again and it paused. I pushed it up and the volume raised and then I went and plonked down the best £7 I've ever paid for a shareware app.
Afterwards I got to fooling around with the program and realized the sheer vastness of it's capabilities. This thing allows my phone to control any application which can be apple scripted (read: every application worth it's salt), control the mouse and do all manner of cool stuff. For instance when I get a call on my phone it shouts out on bluetooth for iTunes to shut up, pauses the DVD I'm watching and set's my iChat status to "on the phone". I called myself just to watch it all work, it's incredible! When I put the phone down it shouts out for everything to return to normal and the iTunes play, the DVD rolls and my iChat status turns to Available.
To think, when I first thought about having my phone work with my computer over bluetooth I was immensely enthusiastic about it being able to move along slides in Keynote and I barely even use Keynote. This much functionality moves it right out of the 'Geek Toy' group and into productivity related technology.
If you have a mac and a bluetooth phone then I demand you check out Salling Click, you won't be disappointed.
Right, I'm off to bed.
Later
John