Hmm interesting. actually g you have to put in the number manually as the web does not have access to your contacts Not sure if the desktop clients do as I can't use it lol!
Take care all. On Jan 5, 2012, at 10:47 AM, Esther wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Thanks for the additional information. It sounds as though you get an > additional command sequence to initiate calls and text messages through the > web interface of My Phone Desktop. With Type2Phone you can type in the > content of text messages, and cut and paste content from your Mac clipboard > to your iOS device, but there's no additional controls to initiate phone > calls or send the text messages -- it's basically for typing. With the other > Mac desktop app that Ed mentioned in his earlier post, iKeyboard, you can use > your Mac keyboard like a paired Bluetooth keyboard if you turn VoiceOver off > on your Mac while you type. That means you can use the regular Bluetooth > shortcuts and command sequences that you'd use with an Apple Wireless > Keyboard, for example. In addition, there are a few F-keys that get special > functions -- like a Home key and a Spotlight search key similar to the iPad > Keyboard Dock with dedicated keys in the F-key row, since you're not going to > use your key bo > ard to control things like iOS brightness with the low-number F-keys. I > suspect that if you use a full keyboard with iKeyboard, you also get use of > the numpad keys for numeric data entry. The support for additional language > keyboards is better with iKeyboard -- Greek, Russian, and more non-European > languages that are not yet fully supported with Type2Phone. And you can't do > the copy and paste transfer of text from your other Mac apps with iKeyboard, > the way you can with Type2Phone. > > > HTH. Cheers, > > Esther > > > On Jan 5, 2012, at 12:37, Sarah Alawami wrote: > >> You can also call contacts and text as well. I don't think you can do that >> with the type to phone app unless I am mistaken. You can basically control >> you phone and send photos to the phone via the my phone desktop app. >> >> First when you run the my phone desktop mac client you get asked to install >> java run time. this was a surprise to me. >> >> After installing the java you try and open the app and it stays busy the >> whole time. I tried reopining the app as well. Now mind you I don't have the >> mobile app installed so that might be the culprit. >> >> Take care all. >> On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:11 AM, Esther wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm curious to learn what additional features you have using My Phone >>> Desktop over Type2Phone -- apart from the fact that Type2Phone is a Mac >>> only application that you can buy from the Mac App Store for the same price >>> ($4.99). When I linked to Dr. Drang's blog article about setting up >>> Type2Phone in my original list post, one of the comments on his article was >>> from someone who used My Phone Desktop for the same purposes (typing text >>> for mail, messages, and anywhere you would normally have to type or use >>> copy and paste to insert text, with the option of copying from your Mac's >>> clipboard -- URLs, selected text, etc.). The response was that since >>> Type2Phone worked through a Bluetooth connection, you could continue to use >>> your Mac keyboard to type on your iOS device, and copy and paste >>> information from your Mac, even without having an active internet >>> connection for your computer. My understanding is that by having to use a >>> web interface with My Phone Desktop, you must have y > our computer on an active internet connection to use it with your iPhone, > iPod Touch, or iPad. Is this correct? I'm just trying to understand the > pros and cons of these apps, and the various options we have for using our > computer keyboards for the iOS devices. If anyone has tried both Type2Phone > and My Phone Desktop it would be great to hear a comparison of features, and > what is best about each. >>> >>> Certainly, if it's easier to make calls through the web browser interface >>> with MyPhoneDesktop that would be interesting to know. >>> >>> HTH. 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