http://www.roclar.net/archives/65 Random links, thoughts, etc. Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:14:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.roclar.net/archives/65/comment-page-1#comment-453 roclar.net Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:05:28 +0000 http://roclar.net/archives/65#comment-453 [...] Having a keyboard shortcut is an ok way to activate the locking screensaver, but it still requires some thinking and execution allowing room for human error. Jesse David Hollington from The Technocrat has written up instructions on how to use Proximity and Applescript to lock and unlock a Mac using a Bluetooth phone. Using his instructions and a few pointers from the digg thread, I was able to get this working without much difficulty. There are still a few concerns such as general Bluetooth security, the range of Bluetooth causing my machine to almost never be locked, etc. but at least the keyboard shortcut still works and when locked with the shortcut, it doesn’t appear to unlock with the phone in proximity. [...] [...] Having a keyboard shortcut is an ok way to activate the locking screensaver, but it still requires some thinking and execution allowing room for human error. Jesse David Hollington from The Technocrat has written up instructions on how to use Proximity and Applescript to lock and unlock a Mac using a Bluetooth phone. Using his instructions and a few pointers from the digg thread, I was able to get this working without much difficulty. There are still a few concerns such as general Bluetooth security, the range of Bluetooth causing my machine to almost never be locked, etc. but at least the keyboard shortcut still works and when locked with the shortcut, it doesn’t appear to unlock with the phone in proximity. [...]

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