Bluetooth

Aug 30 2010

Mover Lite …transfer pics and contacts between iPhone, iPad and Mac

Mover Lite is the FREE version of Infinite Labs’ Mover+.1

The app runs on the iPhone, iPad or iPod touch and allows you to transfer contacts and photos between your iDevices over wifi. With a 99¢ add-on to the Lite app, you can also transfer those files to your desktop Mac running Mover Connect.

If you want to be able to transfer files between your devices when they’re not connected to wifi, Mover+ allows for connectivity and transfer over Bluetooth for $1.99.

I’ve found that the app runs very well between two devices, but can get a bit confused when you have three devices, like a Mac, an iPad and an iPhone, all connected as I show in the video. It works, but confusion is a possibility.

Mover has come in handy for me many times when I just wanted to transfer a photo and I don’t want to have to go through the trouble of emailing it to myself or some other such procedure.

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As mentioned in the video, the iPad stand I’m using is the BookArc for iPad from Twelve South. It’s a nice sturdy metal stand that securely holds the iPad in either landscape or portrait2 orientations. It sells for around $45.

Mover Lite …transfer pics and contacts between iPhone, iPad and Mac
  1. I’m actually using Mover+ in the video, but I’m pushing Mover Lite here since it’s the FREE introductory app [↩]
  2. or even diagonal, if that’s how you roll [↩]

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Aug 4 2010

Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam iPhone disconnected 318x477 Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

EZ Cam is a sneaky little app for the iPhone and iPad1 … and when I say “for the iPhone and iPad,” I mean it because you’ll need both.

MobAc Design came up with this $2.99 US app (EZ Cam Lite also available) that brings Remote Camera Sharing to the iDevices. You simply launch the app and make a wireless connection between any two devices using Bluetooth, WiFi, or 3G. From there, both devices can see a camera’s-eye-view in real time. Once your target is in sight, snap a picture using the controls on the iPad and the photo is taken on the iPhone and instantly transferred to the iPad for viewing.

EZ Cam iPad Stanford quad disconnected Your iPhone and your iPad team up to help you take sneaky reconnaissance photos

Imagine, since this is a Bluetooth, WiFi or 3G connection being made between the devices, you can be in a totally different place than the iPhone, lying in wait with your iPad and be in full control of the camera… which is going to come in handy when you need to take that quick picture of the guy who finds your iPhone laying around all by itself and takes it for himself.

I wonder if Gary Powell was testing EZ Cam when he left that prototype iPhone 4 unattended.

  1. or iPod touch [↩]

By RickMacMerc • apps, hax0r, iPad, iPhone, iPod, photography • 2 • Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Apr 27 2009

Feelin’ Blue(tooth)

The Mac is the best place to be, if you’ve got a Bluetooth phone. Not only can you bypass expensive download fees by installing themes, pictures, ringtones and games directly from your Mac (Bluetooth File Exchange), but you can also interact with your Mac using some of my freeware picks.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)Romeo

Find your phone’s lost love in this great app. Romeo allows you to pilot your Mac from your Bluetooth phone. Use your phone as a mouse, control a slew of applications including iTunes from across the room and add addition applications with Romeo plug-ins.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)BluePhoneMenu

Keep track of your signal strength, get and make calls from your Mac with this handy menu extra. Oh yeah, get and send SMS messages from your Mac too. The newest version requires Panther.

mu Feelin Blue(tooth)BlueNotes

Send quick notes to your SonyEricsson phone with this little app. Simple and straightforward.

What’s better than free? Getting a SonyEricsson T610 for -$150 after rebates* with T-Mobile. Buy it now at Amazon.

Or if AT&T is more your flavor, you can land a similar deal with the T616, here at Amazon.

There’s all you need to cut your first Bluetooth. Have fun.

Brian

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*Offered by Amazon and T-Mobile/AT&T. Subject to their terms and conditions, blah, blah, blah.

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