The two updates, available from the system update preference pane, add support for more Symbian OS smart phones and the iPod mini, as well as stability improvements and they provides enhanced stability for Bluetooth connections to some Symbian OS mobile phones. On other Apple news, the OmniGroup released the second public beta of their popular web browser OmniWeb 5.0.
Apple Releases Bluetooth and iSync Updates for OSX
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Without question, one of the best things about OS X is how simple it’s support and implementation of bluetooth is.
A friend of mine got a Sony Ericsson T616 and has a WinXP laptop. He spent *forever* trying to get it to sync with Outlook. He also tried without success to get the laptop to connect to the internet via bluetooth to the phones GPRS service. No luck at all.
I, on the other hand, have a 700 megahertz ibook running Panther and the same phone with the same cellular provider. All I had to do was plug in my D-Link bluetooth dongle in the iBook, turn on bluetooth, and the two devices found each other. I authenticated them and then went into my network settings. I changed the modem to my bluetooth phone and 5 minutes later I’m sitting outside, far away from any wifi connection, and I’m surfing on my ibook, connected to the internet thru a bluetooth connection with my phone and my provider’s GPRS service. Friggin’ awesome! I am my own hotspot!!! And the icing on the cake is that iSync will sync my Addrebook and iCal data with the phone over bluetooth. It just works. Once I had authenticated the devices, the phone shows up in my iSync and that’s it. I sync it and it’s done.
It is things like that — stuff that just works — that makes me love the Mac and OSX.
The new OmniWeb beta 2 is much stabler now. I can’t wait until the final release.
omg bus trips are doable now. Though the seat still sucks.
Took some finagling with tmobile (they didnt know how to connect themselves, didnt know you needed a login/pass), but within 3 hours I was connected. 20 bucks a month, unlimited static ip internet connection, 56k speed, anywhere I get 1-2 signal bars.