{"id":231,"date":"2007-06-29T17:05:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T21:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clay.blogdns.net\/?p=231"},"modified":"2007-07-06T08:21:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T12:21:38","slug":"vistas-bt-support-lacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/vistas-bt-support-lacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Vista&#8217;s BT support lacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you mostly use bluetooth on one of those high-tech looking wireless headsets for your phone.  Every once in a blue moon when I get bored with my current ringtone, or if I want to get some pictures off my phone I use the OBEX feature to transfer files to and from my phone from a computer.  I recently had this urge while using a new laptop from work running Vista.  Windows XP had some limited bluetooth support, so I figured things would be better in the latest version.  Perhaps my Mac has spoiled me, but I was expecting a lot more than I got.  While there&#8217;s actually some built-in control panel tools, the functionality is essentially the same as XP.  You&#8217;re only built-in option for file transfers is the antiquated send\/receive file option.   This is how you would have transferred a file via IR on a pair of PDAs about 10 years ago.  Finally in frustration I turned to google which pointed me to a shareware program from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.medieval.it\/\">Medieval Software<\/a>.  Their OBEX file transfer program did the trick.  Still, when I could do all of this on a 5-year old Mac with the built-in tools in OS 10.4, it was disappointing.<\/p>\n<p><em>note:  if you happen to turn off the bluetooth adapter in Vista and then can&#8217;t find the notification icon that turns it back on, check the properties of your start menu.  When I disabled the bluetooth adapter on my Dell D620, the icon became inactive and got hidden.  To get it back I had to uncheck the &#8220;hide inactive icons&#8221; option on the &#8220;Notification Area&#8221; tab of the start menu properties page.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re like me, you mostly use bluetooth on one of those high-tech looking wireless headsets for your phone. Every once in a blue moon when I get bored with my current ringtone, or if I want to get some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/2007\/06\/29\/vistas-bt-support-lacking\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/claymccauley.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}