BluePhoneElite, Finally Phones and PowerBooks Play Nice
As you all know, I’m a big fan of podcasting, and less a fan of broadcast radio. This means iTunes is running constantly. My headphones are in and my phone is on vibrate, cause there are other people in the world.
Sometimes, when I’m working, I miss a call. Not awful, it goes to voicemail and fewer interruptions are probably better anyway.
Yet, this accentuates an obvious hole in this digital hub thing - integrating phone calls into the computer. The PowerBook has Bluetooth, the phone has Bluetooth. iSync ties their address books together and I can use the phone as a dial-up modem. All good things. All things want from my technology.
A couple months back, I found BluePhoneElite. This fantastic piece of software makes my PowerBook and SonyEricsson T610 even better friends.
- Now, when I get a call:
- iTunes stops
- A transparent window displays the PowerBook’s screen with the caller information pulled from the Address Book
- I can take the call or send to voicemail, before picking up the phone
- When the call is over:
- iTunes starts
- The call time and caller information is written to iCal with any notes
It makes me smile every time.
As an added bonus, making calls and sending SMSs is also handled by BluePhoneElite. Both in a far more usable manner than through Apple’s Address Book. So easy that dialing without BluePhoneElite is annoying.
One Comment
Sounds like a more advanced version of Sailing Clicker, I know it pauses Itunes when calls come in, but doesn’t provide any information. I’ll give it a try at home!