AppleScripts ease internet sharing with Bluetooth phones

Sep 19, '03 10:28:00AM

Contributed by: cks3

I've seen this touched upon in some of the comments to other posts on the site. But for a while, I was struggling with a way to share my Mac's internet connection with my Nokia 3650 over Bluetooth. Basically, I wanted to do this not so much for web browsing on the small screen, but in order to be able to sync Avantgo without blowing through my mobile data allowance in one fell swoop.

Most of this information is covered in this thread on Apple's discussion site. But it takes a lot of reading. And even if you follow all the instructions, sometimes the DNS still will not resolve (although navigating to sites via IP addresses is possible). So in any case, I created a few Applescripts, one to disconnect and one to reconnect the internet sharing to your Bluetooth cellphone, complete with a detailed Read Me file that has the full how to and linkage to all the places where I got my info from.

You can download my Share2Blue2th scripts from my mac.com homepage -- [37.8KB download]. The code that is implemented in the scripts is available on the discussion board linked above. Cheers!

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