The inimitable Sinclair ZX Spectrum is to be reborn for its 30th birthday with an interesting twist.  Games company Elite, which wrote many of the best-selling titles for the original home computer, is planning to relaunch the Speccy as a Bluetooth keyboard for mobile phones according to the Telegraph. Why?  They’ve noticed the upsurge in [...]

Categories: Hardware

Problems with Bluetooth devices that are not working properly, not syncing correctly or not detected at all by the operating system are usually caused by driver issues. One possible option for users who experience problem with their Bluetooth devices is to use Microsoft’s generic Bluetooth driver instead of the driver offered by the third party [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Locking the operating system is surely not the most secure way of making sure that no unauthorized users access the computer system. But it is still better than leaving the computer system unlocked. The option to lock the computer automatically after a time of inactivity makes this a very handy solution. Users who want to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Some computer users have been experiencing massive problems in the past when trying to connect their Bluetooth devices to the Windows operating system. One common problem is driver related. It happens that the driver of the Bluetooth adapter is not able to recognize the Bluetooth device that the user wants to connect to the computer [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

All recent Microsoft operating systems (that is Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7) come with Bluetooth support provided they are equipped with a Bluetooth Dongle or other hardware device that is used to detect and connect the Bluetooth devices in the proximity of the computer system. Bluetooth CL has been designed to provide a [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

After taking a look at the latest set of devices and gadgets to make it to the market, one thing is becoming clear. We are in desperate need of some gadget standards. You know the type of standards we currently have for automobiles, such as every car uses between 12” and 20” tires. All have [...]

Categories: Gadgets

Bluetooth View is a portable software program by one of our favorite software developers Nirsoft. It is a lightweight software program running in the background of a computer system that monitors the activity of Bluetooth devices in the vicinity. It will display various information about each detected device and can notify the current user if [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

I recently discovered a really cool feature in Vista (I think it isn’t available quite so readily in XP), which allows you to transform your computer into a phone really easily. Of course you’ll need a bluetooth capable mobile, and a bluetooth capable computer (or an adapter), but once you hook the two together you [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Tutorials Basic, Uncategorized

MobileWitch Remote Control turns your mobile phone into a remote control that can control various applications on your PC. The software does have a few limitations and requirements though. Both the PC and mobile phone have to support Bluetooth which is being used to send and receive the data. The user installs a server on [...]

Categories: Mobiles, Nokia