During my excessively busy week (suddenly announced
deadline!) I took the Mac to work to show it to one of my
colleagues. After explaining how it works, and how anything I
plug into it "just works", his comment was "Oh, it's a
computer for people.". No exclamation, just a real
matter-of-fact statement. He was right, it is a computer for
people. No tech-head family member required to install drivers
for a printer or scanner, no strange registry to stuff up,
just elegant simplicity.
Bluetooth Phones.
My Girlfriend is getting a new mobile phone, the old one is
dying. I took the SIM card from her old phone, inserted it
into my Bluetooth capable phone and then tried to see if I
could get the numbers onto the Mac.
Bluetooth menu(large).
First I used the "Set up Bluetooth Device"
option on the menu from the Bluetooth status icon in the menu
bar. Which proceeded to take me through a few windows to setup
the phone. I had actually done this previously to use the
phone as a dialup modem and also to setup the Logitech MX900
mouse.
Found a mobile (large).
I then started iSync, added another device
(the phone), pressed the "Sync Now" button and the
addresses and phone numbers appeared in my Address Book. The
whole process was very simple. The only stumbling block was
that I first tried to use the Address Book application to get
the data from the phone, and only after that was unsuccessfull
I looked for iSync.
Obviously my Girlfriend's new phone will have
Bluetooth.
