Why buy the cow when you can get milk for free?
A lot of mac users similar to myself have hacked their installs to allow installation of Apple's FrontRow on their older Macs prior to it being included with OSX 10.4 Tiger on an Intel based Mac. Following the Digg.com story, a nice tutorial was posted on how to accomplish this task here: Tutorial.Upon doing this all was well, champagne was brought out and music was playing. One thing missing that would make this as great as the real deal that Apple gives the folks that bought newer Macs-- that cool little remote control. The suggestion by several was to use a product such as the following: http://www.salling.com/Clicker/mac/ I tried this stinking program out and it did work for what I wanted, but you could only click a certain number of times for the "free trial period" and I figured it really wasn't that important so I moved right along and deleted it.
Today I was playing around with bluetoothing my Cingular EDGE connection from my Sony Ericsson S710a to my Powerbook. This worked well. Those interested can follow the links here:
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This worked well as well and all was good in the world once again....yay.
Things also got even better as I was working on my bluetooth setup. I'll call this the poor-man's solution to not wishing to pay for Salling Clicker (ahem...rippoff).
So we begin, System Preferences>Bluetooth
Select the device you wish to configure as your remote control (my S710a)
Tick the use device as remote control option and remove the other ticks unless you also wish to configure those.
That is it...congrats you just saved yourself a few dollars. Turn on your phone and have it connect to the remote desktop function in your bluetooth options. You can get either the media player or desktop control set. Both of these are adequate and work well.
posted by Agent_Smith @ 10:19 AM
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