Use Your BlackBerry As a Keyboard and Mouse for Your PC
Using a cell phone to control a PC is nothing new. There have been several utilities for phones that let you do that including one we covered a while back for the iPhone. Windows PC users with BlackBerrys can now tap into this fun with a new free BlackBerry app, bluCTRL.
This utility makes sense for those BlackBerrys with a trackball and physical keyboard, meaning all of them except the Storm. It works over Bluetooth so all you have to do is install the app on both the BlackBerry and the PC and then pair away. This may sound like a frivolous endeavor but it’s a great way to control presentations wirelessly and for controlling media centers from across the room.
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MobileRemote is a great app on WM that does the same, but implements the full bluetooth HID profile, meaning no software needs to be installed in the target PC. It even works on mac’s and PS3′s.
also, sony ericsson phones have been offering HID bluetooth profiles for several years now; one thing that sony does do well is giving users good bluetooth profiles (vs some handsets that have almost none, iphone i’m looking at you!)
ooh great.. this works so cool.. thanks man