Archive for April, 2008
Use your cell phone as a remote control on Ubuntu
Apr 15th
Finally I bought a USB bluetooth adapter to use on my Eee PC.
Sometime ago, I saw some tips on how to use the cell phone as a remote control. As my cell phone has bluetooth, and as I never used it for something useful, I was willing to test this feature.
I heard about amora, but it seems to work on super cell phones (not my case). I didn’t test it, so I don’t know if it will work for me, but before buy this adapter, I saw this post, talking about bluepad. It sounds like a good solution for mortals like me…
So I installed BluePad on Hardy (Ubuntu Beta) on my desktop and on Gutsy (Current Ubuntu) on my Eee PC. In both it works good. On Ubuntu I sent to the cell phone the part that runs on it.
The Gutsy bluetooth support is very good, but on Hardy it’s even better. I’m using bluepad + Ubuntu on class and speeches. Maybe I’ll record bluepad running on my Eee PC and put it on youtube…


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