Showing posts with label bluetooth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bluetooth. Show all posts
Thursday, June 18, 2009
2G iPod Touch Bluetooth
3.0 firmware unlocks the Bluetooth capability of the 2G Touch. I tried pairing it with a Sony Bluetooth dongle, and it works fine for the most part. Pairing works, albeit a bit slow vs a cellphone. The Sony Bluetooth dongle has playback controls. Play, pause, and volume controls work, but next/prev track controls do not. The mic on the Bluetooth dongle is not recognized by the Touch nor apps like Skype. :( oh well. Turning on wifi while streaming audio via Bluetooth caused audio dropouts and weird slowdowns. Other than that, it's a nice perk but not terribly useful.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
iMac acting up
I freaked out a little a few hours ago because my iMac hanged. After forcing it to turn off and rebooted, for whatever reason it didn't recognize its own bluetooth transmitter (no bluetooth detected in system profiler). I thought crap, the BT transmitter is dead or something. I searched google, and found out about users resetting their SMC. Apple has this document: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1543 I followed the instruction and my iMac is back to normal. Phew. I was afraid I had to restore a time machine backup, or worse, hardware failure.
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Cute Mouse
Got a new mouse that was on sale recently, Microsoft Bluetooth Notebook Mouse 5000. It's so cute and tiny!
It's a wireless bluetooth mouse. Unlike most BT mouse, this one doesn't come with the annoying BT dongle, thus it only works with computers that already have BT built-in, like most Macs. :) Connecting it to my iMac is pretty straight forward, although I had to use a wired mouse first to setup the bluetooth configuration. It uses 2 AAA batteries.
Unfortunately, I don't see a way to configure the buttons on my Mac. So the back button doesn't work, despite being advertised as such. For some reason, it activated the Dashboard. Oh well, so much for that. The back button is 1 big thing I missed on the Mac. Wheel is rough, and only does vertical scrolling. I prefer the 4-way ball on Apple's mighty mouse. Still, the size of this MS mouse is very compact, good for travel. It even comes with a bag!
It's a wireless bluetooth mouse. Unlike most BT mouse, this one doesn't come with the annoying BT dongle, thus it only works with computers that already have BT built-in, like most Macs. :) Connecting it to my iMac is pretty straight forward, although I had to use a wired mouse first to setup the bluetooth configuration. It uses 2 AAA batteries.
Unfortunately, I don't see a way to configure the buttons on my Mac. So the back button doesn't work, despite being advertised as such. For some reason, it activated the Dashboard. Oh well, so much for that. The back button is 1 big thing I missed on the Mac. Wheel is rough, and only does vertical scrolling. I prefer the 4-way ball on Apple's mighty mouse. Still, the size of this MS mouse is very compact, good for travel. It even comes with a bag!
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