October 2004
Beginner to intermediate
456 pages
12h 36m
English
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Control iTunes from Your Mobile Phone 
Use your Bluetooth mobile phone as a remote to control iTunes from across the room.
This hack turns your Bluetooth cell phone or Palm into a remote control for iTunes. Apart from the wow factor when your friends come over for a party, there is a convenience factor too. Want to pause iTunes from your phone? You can. Want to skip to the next track or select a slow-dance playlist to spice things up a little? You can do that too.
Hardware
For this hack, you need a Bluetooth phone or PDA. If you have any of the following devices, you’re in luck:
- Sony Ericsson phone
T630, T628
600, Z608
T610, T616, T618
T68m, T68i
R520m
T39m, T39mc
P800 (R1D firmware)
P900
- Siemens phone
SX1
- Nokia phone
3650
N-Gage
- Palm OS handheld
palmOne Tungsten T, T2, T3
Sony Clié UX50
On the computer side, all you need to get things going is a Mac with Bluetooth and OS X 10.2 or later. PowerBook G4s come with Bluetooth preinstalled. Bluetooth options are available for an iBook, PowerBook, or Power Mac if you purchase your computer from Apple’s online store and add built-in-Bluetooth to your order. If you already own a Mac sans Bluetooth, D-Link makes an after-market USB adapter (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=34; $45). The adapter plugs into an available USB port (you can even use an extra port on your keyboard on the Power Mac G4 and iMac).
Bluetooth
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I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.