Geeky Winnage With Bluetooth

Geeky winnage! This evening I wrote a pair of applications enabling me to use my new Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone as a remote control for WinDVD, the DVD playing software I use on my computer.

Not just a geeky project, this is fuelled by a genuine need: every Troma Night, when the pizza arrives, we end up scrambling for the keyboard in order to pause the film, or I find myself wandering back and forwards, trying to set the volume to an audible-to-all but not-deafening level. With the aid of this new funky toy, I can do this from my seat. Toy.

I’m looking forward to other ideas for uses for this technology. Tools already exist to allow you to control your media player and PowerPoint presentations using a Bluetooth mobile phone, but I’m sure that there are more useful applications that I can use in order to improve my own, personal geeky life.

Toy.

New Mobile Phone

My new mobile phone finally arrived at the weekend. I’ve texted my new number to everybody in my phone book, except for people I don’t want to have it <grins>. If you don’t have my new number, but you think you should, you have three options:

1. Use one of the online services in which my number will be recorded. If you know what these are and how to access them, you can get my new number for yourself.

2. Talk to somebody who already has my new number, or get it from me sometime (call me on my landline, e-mail me, ICQ me, whatever…). Easy.

3. If all else fails, leave a comment here and I’ll get back to you.