Re:Apple Introduces iOS 8
by justinator on Monday June 02, 2014 @02:52PM
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I used to be able to do this with my first color screen'd Sony/Erickson phone and OS X like, 10 years ago via Bluetooth. It was great to work with my Addressbook on the Mac, pick a contact and SMS/Call them. I could also use the phone as a remote control for iTunes, as well.
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Re:Apple Introduces iOS 8
by gurkendoktor on Monday June 02, 2014 @03:31PM
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Same here! SMS'ing from the 10.4 Dashboard was fantastic. I even had a second Nokia with a GPRS flatrate in my backpack and could use it as an occasional hotspot throughout the week, then charge it on the weekends.
Turning on the iOS hotspot from OS X 10.10 even works exactly like tethering via Bluetooth used to work, from the menu bar.
Yeah, there was a little package called "Bluephone Elite", IIRC, that did this.
Yup, was great. Let you reply to messages, run apple scripts on proximity, answer and dial the phone...
Not sure why it took apple soooooo long to implement?
I used to do this with my Sony Erricson phone as well in 10.2 and 10.3 from Address Book/iSync.
Re:Apple Introduces iOS 8
by justinator on Monday June 02, 2014 @04:34PM
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If I also remember correctly, I was able to use this same phone (first phone I had with a camera, I believe - T610?) to snap a shot, and then email it to an address that piped that to a Perl script. That Perl script, then posted the photo to a very simple blog-like app I had written (also in Perl). I handed the site in as an art project I did, after a week road trip.
And then, Instagram happened. Seemed novel at the time - something I made 3 hours before hittin' the road.