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Slideshow: Mating a Mac With a Cell Phone

Software created by a Swedish programmer turns a Bluetooth-equipped Sony Ericsson cell phone into a universal remote for the Macintosh. The software senses when the phone enters or leaves a room, pausing music or even triggering the central heating system. By Leander Kahney.
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For example, it could be used to launch an e-mail application that, say, when the user comes back to the office after lunch, would make the machine announce out loud how many new e-mails have come in.Tobias Lidskog

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Using scripts freely available on the Net, Salling's $10 software can be set up to make a Mac play music automatically when an owner carrying a cell phone enters the room, and pause it when he or she leaves.

David Roessli
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Last week, 30-year-old Swedish programmer Jonas Salling released a clunkily named but surprisingly versatile piece of software for Mac OS X called the Sony Ericsson Clicker, which turns a Bluetooth-equipped Sony Ericsson cell phone into a universal remote for the Mac -- and more.

David Roessli