The Mac, the Phone, BlueTooth and the Clicker


You'll need a Bluetooth-equipped Mac and an appropriate Sony-Ericsson cell phone for this one.

We're assuming Jonas Salling authored this shareware [attrib: MacBidouille], since that's the moniker heading up the page at .mac. Jonas has developed Sony Ericsson Clicker [no legals from either company yet - touch wood], a "revolutionary" application (Jonas' words, not ours, although we'd have to agree with him).

Clicker builds on the power of AppleScript, BlueTooth and a Sony-Ericsson phone to make your phone the remote. With Clicker, you can remotely control a wide range of AppleScriptable applications, such as iTunes (from the sofa or bed, Jonas recommends), Apple DVD Player (from the comfy chair, we recommend), or even PowerPoint and Keynote (from the men's room, if possible).

In fact, virtually anything that supports AppleScript. The Clicker also works with the phone's 'proximity sensor', meaning you can pause iTunes when you take off, and then it switches back on when you return (unless you lost the phone while you were out).

The sky's the limit with AppleScript, says Jonas. There are some for download at his .mac site sample scripts as well.

Apple are so impressed, they have a page on Sony Ericsson Clicker scripting themselves. Perhaps, like Remington, they'll be so impressed that they buy the company.

There's a free downloadable, but it only does 30 clicks (we predict you'll be clicking constantly, just to see what it can do). Until March 2, it was $9.95, but you've missed that deadline [as did we]. But the price is still a bargain-basement $12.95. It's a 770k download.

Analysis: Pretty cool and pretty clever. Great for presentaitons. Note the fine print: you'll need 10.2.4 and one of the following Sony-Ericsson phones:
- T39m
- R520m
- T68
- T68i