Apple, Apps, Management, Misc

I travel a lot, and I have emails on my phone. It's not blackberry, it's push email on Nokia E61e. I found that I can use the apple bluetooth keyboard on my phone. After 5 months of this setup, believe me, it's a great improvement over the phone-sized keyboard. I use it especially in the train, and in places with limited connectivity.

The setup goes as follows:

1. Download and install Nokia HID software (bluetooth keyboard drivers): http://europe.nokia.com/A4144291
2. Start the keyboard application on your phone. Turn on the keyboard. Select search devices on the phone
3. I could never figure out exactly how the pairing should happen, so you may need to execute this step several times. Press now the pairing code on the keyboard (I usually choose 1111). Then set he same password on the phone. Then press again 1111 on the keyboard.
4. Can you now see message "apple wireless keyboard connected"? you did it!

I learned this procedure from http://www.sics.se/node/2593

Later, I found key mapping on this page: http://windforwings.blogspot.com/2007/05/bluetooth-hid-keyboard-for-nokia-e61.html. Above all, you will need to know that the "middle button" is mapped to ctrl+enter!

Just a few days ago I had a meeting using webex screen sharing. To my surprise, the isight camera of my macbook was active during the whole conference. I searched in the settings of webex, but could not find anything to fix this misbehavior!

Googling for this problem showed that this is a known issue, but that it won't get fixed. See here a popular example: http://www.madanalogy.com/2008/08/webex-is-watching-you-and-cant-turn-it.html

I found my workaround. Before launching webex, I load photobooth! It reserves the the video stream, and I can confirm that webex, coming second, will just display a black screen. You can even quit photo booth, and see that the camera remains disabled.