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Knock uses a combination of an iPhone app (currently offered at an introductory price of $3.99) and a Mac app (available for free at Knock’s website) to enable unlocking of your Mac, wirelessly, by just knocking the back of your iPhone.

It’s a surreal experience. After a couple of minutes of initial setup, you lock your Mac and rap the back of your paired iPhone twice. Your Mac unlocks. The app doesn’t even have to be forefront on your phone, although it does have to be ‘open’ in the multitasking tray. In fact, your phone doesn’t even have to be unlocked. When it senses the Mac is near, a notification appears on the lock screen instructing you to knock. There are some nice UI touches too. For instance, echoes of the ‘sound wave’ appear on OS X’s lock screen in real time as you knock. It’s a subtle visual indicator that the system is actually working.

The app uses Bluetooth Low Energy to communicate with the target Mac. 2d design software free mac. This is what allows the app to operate whilst backgrounded (using the CoreBluetooth API’s originally introduced in iOS 5) and it also means that battery drain on the phone is minimised. In order to take advantage of this neat effect, naturally, you need a recent Mac and iPhone (4S or later) that has Bluetooth 4 compatibility. Helpfully, the Mac menubar utility will tell you during setup if your computer is supported.

In practice, the system failed on me a couple of times in testing. The phone just couldn’t detect my laptop’s presence. Quitting the app and reopening remedied these connection issues, however.

As a gimmicky party trick, this is the best thing I’ve seen all year. As a tech demo of Bluetooth 4 and iOS 7, it is undeniably pretty cool.

In terms of real-world utility, though, I’m not as enthused. Secure digital host controller driver download. I do not find typing a password for my Mac to be a huge chore, although to be fair I’m not in a setting that necessitates unlocking my machine numerous times a day. Regardless, as it stands, if an malicious individual manages to steal both your iPhone and your Mac, all security is foregone (as the iPhone can unlock the Mac without needing to be unlocked itself).

Knock is $3.99 for the iPhone. The accompanying Mac app can be found at the developer’s website.

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Anyone who doesn’t have their computer protected by a strong password is just asking for trouble. The moment you turn your back on your computer to go to the bathroom or to get a coffee, a snooper can be inside your hard drive viewing and copying personal information, without you ever realizing it.

But if you are in the habit of going for lots of coffee, or going to regular meetings, it can be a real pain having to log in and out of your computer all the time. Especially if (and it should) your password is something along the lines of @[email protected] . Try typing that in 10-20 times a day (getting it wrong a lot!) and soon you will get rather tired of it!

But having no password at all is not an option so what else can you do to secure your computer which your wrists and hands will thank you for? Why, use Bluetooth of course.

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I’m a Bit Clueless! What’s Bluetooth?

I’m sure you already know what Bluetooth is (and if you do, you can read a really complicated technical description over at Wikipedia to learn more), but for those who are not so knowledgeable, here’s a brief description.

To put it simply, Bluetooth allows two devices to connect (“pair”) with one another. Examples include :

Pairing a wireless headset with your mobile phone, so you can answer phone calls by tapping the headset and looking as if you have gone completely insane by talking to yourself.
Pairing two Internet-connected devices for the purpose of transferring files from one to the other.
Pairing two Internet-connected devices, so one can be used to control the other (for example, using your mobile phone as a TV remote control or to listen to music on your favorite music player).

Another use, which is the subject of this article, is to use your mobile phone to lock and unlock your computer. There are many Android apps that do this, but since I only have Apple products (or “fruit shop toys” to quote my wife), this article is based solely on using an iPhone to unlock your MacOS computer.

It should be noted before we start that there are normally two components to these services – the Mac app and the iOS app. The Mac app is normally free, but you have to pay for the iOS app. So the prices quoted below are only for the iOS app.

Without the iOS app, the whole thing will obviously not work, which is where the developer makes their money. Saying that, one of the three options here is completely free. This can help you decide whether or not you want to spend the pennies to get one of the better paid ones.

The other thing to note is that you need to give these apps your Mac password so it can unlock the computer for you. If you feel uncomfortable giving out your password, then these apps are not for you.

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Tether is completely free and it does its job well. Once both the Mac app and iOS app have been installed, turn on Bluetooth on both devices and wait for them to find one another.

Then you need to go into the Mac app and go through the settings. One option is to specify how far away from the computer you should go before the auto-lockdown kicks in. This is useful if you don’t want your computer to lock every time you walk to the filing cabinet behind your desk, for example.

Then go to the password option and enter your Mac password.

Now give it a go. Walk away from your Mac, and when you have reached the distance specified by you in the options, your computer will lock and go to the screensaver. When you come back to the computer, the Mac will wake up and unlock.

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This is not one of those “walk away and it will lock” deals. This one might be seen by some as more of a gimmick but I still like it.

Using a Bluetooth pairing, you can tap on your iPhone screen (“knock”), and when the Mac picks up the tapping, it will automatically unlock.

Once both the Mac and iOS apps have been installed, go to the Mac app and right-click on it. You will then see the options (few as they are).

Os 10.7.5 mac cleaner. The one missing option which really annoys me about this app is the ability to set the sensitivity of the knocking. Because, quite often, it takes more than a few knocks for the Mac to finally pick it up and unlock.

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Meanwhile you are hitting your expensive iPhone screen and wondering if you are damaging the thing. Note to the developer – if there was a sensitivity setting, you could perhaps set it so it required less hard knocking? Just a thought.

While the app is running, your login screen avatar will now have a flashing green light shooting around it, which looks cool on its own! Yes I kn