Turn your Mac into a Bluetooth Zombie

If like my you are still in the throes of playing with the possibilites of your bluetooth phone, you may be interested in using it as a remote control.

There are a number of tools out there for turning your bluetooth phone into a control device for . The upside to this method is that it's entirely free. The downside is this method works only for the following SE Bluetooth phones Z800, S700, K700 and K750i.
When I first got my k750i, I discovered there was a remote control feature for any paired bluetooth device. While this works in principle it wasn't working 100% with iTunes , DVD Player and Keynote, the three apps I would consider using with a remote control. Easy to fix that though.
A quick trip to the Sony Ericsson website uncovered a tool for mapping keyboard shortcuts to the phone keypad.

1.Download the Sony Ericcson Bluetooth Remote Control Tool.
2.Open up the keyboard shortcuts window for the app of your choice
3.Fill in the required panels with the appropriate shortcuts
4.Save the keypad shortcuts file as something like iTunes.hid
"The BluetoothTM HID (Human Interface Device) profile is built on the USB (Universal Serial Bus) HID stand-
ard. Bluetooth mouse devices, keyboards and other devices for computer remote control can be devel-
oped using this standard. "
5. Transfer it using Bluetooth File Exchange to the phone. You will be asked to accept it and if you now want to use it .
6.If you want to tweak it further you can extract the PNG file used as the remote control faceplate and tweak it to something more Mac like.

I made up a few examples hid files for iTunes, DVD player and Keynote with some appropriate faceplates. You can tweak the buttons or make new png faceplates if you like the buttons in a different configuration.

Download Bluetooth Remote Control Screens

[Update] There are a number of additional controllers available from Salling Clicker that do pretty much the same job

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