“One thing that I’ve been playing with off and on for some time is a small efficient little solution for handling basic Bluetooth proximity detection, specifically for being able to perform certain actions when a cell phone or other Bluetooth device is in range of my Powerbook.” More here.
Bluetooth Proximity Detection on OS X
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I have been using this in Windows for last 3 years. As soon as i bring my PDA in close proximity to my thinkpad, Windows immediately detects it and then you can share files and do other interesting things.
Nice, how do you do it?
User your phone to ‘secure’ your X session : http://www.goitexpert.com/entry.cfm?entry=Use-Your-Bluetooth-Cell-P…
Edit: and here
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:TIP_Bluetooth_Proximity_Monitor
Edited 2007-03-18 23:43
I have proximity detection on my Linux.
Its very nice, when i come into range of my workstation my cellphone irc client disconnects, and my amarok/kaffeine registers with my phone, so i can see nowplaying, plus meddle with the playlist and such.
When i then leave proximity, my cellphone automatically connects to irc with my own-written irc client, irc replacement protocol, and relay server(optimized to use as little bandwidth as possible
)
its really sweet.
Well, Clicker, or I guess as it’s called now Salling Clicker, has been around since 2002 at least. I know it originally required a sony phone to work with your mac, heck, thats why I got a t68i back then.
I believe it supports a few more phones and has a windows client now. it is some pretty amazing software.