Receive mobile phone call on your PC via Bluetooth

Receive mobile phone call on your PC via Bluetooth

Would you like to see who is calling your mobile on your PC? Are you in an environment where your phone has to be silent? Do you miss calls?
This walkthrough will show you how to connect your Windows Mobile 5 Smartphone to your Windows XP PC via Bluetooth. This is likely to work for most Bluetooth phones and all operating systems that support Bluetooth though the method will be slightly different on other platforms.
This method also works for Windows Vista. I have not had success in getting caller ID information, but a message does show up on the screen saying that there is an incoming call. Be careful not to attach Vistas voice gateway service as your calls will be answered automatically. To get this going in Vista, follow the steps below as the set up for Vista and XP are almost identical.There are heaps of fun and interesting things you can do with Bluetooth. Check out some of my other How-To’s and have a play.
Bluetooth has many services which you can use. For this How-to I am only going to focus on the hands-free service, although part of this process is the pairing of the devices. Each Bluetooth device offers only a few services but all smartphones I have seen offer the hands-free service.
Not all bluetooth adaptors will allow for the use of the hands-free service. It works with my Belkin adaptor but it has not been possible on some laptops I have come across. To find out if your PC is capable, open up “My computer”, click “My Bluetooth Places”, click “View my Bluetooth Services”. Look for Hands-free or Headset profile and you should be alright. This may also be dependent on your drivers.
One of the drawbacks with Bluetooth is that it drains the battery of your device whilst it is switched on. My batteries lose power twice as fast with it on and connected to another device. This is slightly annoying but if you are willing to charge your phone ever 1-2 days, you will be fine. You probably have these features, so you may as well see if you can use them.
What you need:

• Windows Mobile 5 Bluetooth handset.

I will be using a HP Ipaq rw6828, as companies make changes to WM5, some of the menu’s may look different.

• PC/Laptop running Windows XP

Up to date, Service Pack 2 is probably required

• Bluetooth built-in to your laptop or a Bluetooth USB Adaptor.

These are available in most IT shops and range in price greatly. I use a Belkin Bluetooth USB Adaptor – Model F8T013 I bought at Harvey Norman. No name brand adaptors can be found at local computer shops for around $20, though I have no idea if these will offer the hands-free service.

I am assuming drivers have been installed on the computer for the Bluetooth ready PC or Laptop.
Pairing the Smartphone with your Computer.
In order to use the Hands-free service we first need to pair the Smartphone with your computer. This enables the Bluetooth communication between the two devices.
On your WM5 Smartphone, tap on the following buttons
tap Start


tap Settings


tap Connections


tap Bluetooth



tap Mode,
both boxes should be ticked, this turns Bluetooth on


tap Devices


tap New Partnership

Your Smartphone will now scan the area for Bluetooth devices and list them


tap “Your computer’s name” and press Next



Your Smartphone will now ask you to enter a passkey. This is a code that you put in to allow for a secure connection between your Smartphone and your computer. You make this key up in most cases and if you do forget it in the future, you can re-pair the devices. They are usually 4 characters long and numeric. I usually use 1234 or 9876. Another option is to use the last 4 digits of a phone number associated with the mobile phone. I don’t see there being huge security issues here but if you have sensitive data on your Smartphone you may want to look into Bluetooth security.

Enter your passkey, e.g. 1234 or 2435



tap Next




Your PC will request the Passkey. Click on the bubble popup


Enter your Passkey and Press OK


You should see that your connection is successful. Icon will change to aqua.


Back on your Smartphone: select Hands-Free Service


tap Finish


Setting your Computer as the Hands-free device


You will be sent back to your partnerships list and your device should now see your computer in the list. Tap on “Your Computer Name” for 2 seconds and a menu will pop up. Select “Set as Hands-free”

After communication takes place (around 5 seconds) the headset icon will appear up the top of your Smartphone.



If all has gone to plan you will now be able to accept calls to your mobile through your PC. When the mobile is dialled a popup will appear down the bottom right of the screen displaying the number.

Not only that, if you click on the bubble you will be given the option to Accept or Reject the call.

If you connect your computer to a microphone and headphones you can have your conversation using your computer whilst your phone is in another room. There is a whole world of things that can be done using the hands-free service. Using your PC to record phone calls is easy to achieve and sometimes useful.
Your smartphone should reconnect automatically when you are near the computer, my computer reconnects with my phones automatically saving me from having to manually set hands free.

Email My Public IP and Local IP

Email My IP

TNT SoftWorks Email My IP is an easy to use application made for the user who needs to know his home Ip while he is away. Email My IP will send an email once daily to a specified email address. The email subject line will contain the Public IP and Local IP address the email was sent from. Whether you are using an application to connect remotely to your home pc while you are away, and your home IP is dynamic or if you need toi be able to login to a home router daily to turn off the wireless so the kids do there homework, this easy to use application will make sure you always have the right IP address.

The program resides in the system tray after pressing hide. At any time you can  hover your mouse over the program icon in the system tray and your public IP address will be displayed.  Thank you. ..........

Making Your PC a DLNA Certified Media Server

You may make your Windows XP or Windows Vista PC a DLNA certified media server simply by activating this capability of Windows Media Player (WMP) 11 or above.  This will allow you to use the Ethernet connection on your DLNA certified media player (PS3, TV, receiver) to connect to the server and view media stored on your PC.

Here is a step-by-step guide:
1.  Open Windows Media Player 11.  The "Windows Media Player" window below appears.



2. Click the "Library" tab and then click "Media Sharing...".  If Media Sharing has not been previously used, a "Media Sharing" pop-up window appears.  Be sure that "Share My Media" is checked and click "OK" to continue.  The "Media Sharing" window below appears.



3. Make sure that "Share my media to:" is checked and then click "Settings...".  The "Media Sharing - Default Settings" window below appears.



4.  Pick the settings that you desire.  It is recommended that you replace the default "Share media as:" name with what ever you would like the server to be named.  If there are multiple users on the PC, media sharing must be configured for each user and there is a server for each user.  Click "OK" to save the settings and return to the "Media Sharing" window.

5.  Click the "Networking..." button.  The "Control Panel > Network and Sharing Center" window below appears.



6.  Make sure that "Password protected sharing" is "Off" and that "Media Sharing" is "On".  Click "OK" to save the settings and return to the "Media Sharing" window.  Click "OK" to save the "Media Sharing" settings.

7. Back on the "Windows Media Player" window, click the "Library" tab and then click "Add to Library...".  The "Add to Library" window below will appear.



8.  Make sure that "My folders and those of others that I can access" is selected.  Recommend un-checking "Add files previously deleted from library" as it will be annoying if this happens.  Click "Add..." to browse folders to add.  The "Add Folder" window below will appear.



9.  Select the desired folder.  In this case, "C:UsersJohnPicturesPoland (10-03-06)" was selected.  Click "OK" to add the selected folder.  The new folder appears in the "Add To Library" window as shown below.



10. Click "OK" to add the files in the folder to the library.  "The Add to Library by Searching Computer" window below appears.



Congratulations!  You have completed making your PC a DLNA certified media server.  DLNA certified media players (PS3, TV, receiver, etc.) on your home network may now view media stored on your PC.

Change Network Settings Of Computer With Click Of Mouse

Change Network Settings Of Laptop With Click Of Mouse

NetSetMan Utility For Network Settings

 First time you launch the utility, you need to set the network card using the refresh button and get the current settings for the first connection. See the snapshots below:

The below screen shot shows how to get the current network settings for IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DNS servers etc. from existing connection.

You can rename it at your convenience, for simplicity, you can name it in the name of office, home, college etc.

You can click on the other tabs, change the Network settings and you just need to press Activate button on right top of the window to activate the current tab’s settings.

when you go back home, just click on home tab and press activate! Its simple as that 

You can download NetSetMan from here. Let us share the other way of doing it.

 Using Windows Batch File to Change Network Settings (Geeky Way)

  In this method we will use the netsh command provided by windows to change the network settings. Follow the stpes below:

 1. Open Command prompt and type the following command to save the current network settings to a text file, lets name the file as homeNet.txt and save it to c drive of the computer. The command is “netsh -c interface dump > c:\homeNet.txt”

see the snapshot above

This file gets saved in c drive. This is a text file which saves the network settings for home network.

 2. Now open the Network Connections and change the settings of Office settings.

After the settings changed as per office network, press OK to save.

 3.On Command prompt type the following command to save the current network settings to a text file, lets name the file as officeNet.txt and save it to c drive of the computer. The command is “netsh -c interface dump > c:\officeNet.txt”

See the snapshot of the command above

This file saves your office network settings.

 4. Now we will create Windows batch files to apply these saved settings on double click of the mouse. These will be two batch files, one for home, one for office. You can have more if you use more than two networks.

 5. Open Notepad and type the following text

“netsh -f c:\homeNet.txt”

This is the command for applying the home network settings.

Saving the batch file is very important, because if you mistakenly save it as text file, it will not work at all. So go to file menu and choose save as option.

On Save as dialogue window, choose the location (I choose desktop for ease of changing settings), now choose file name as homeNet.bat and file type as All Files. Its very important to save it as All files, because it will otherwise save it as normal text file.

6. Now follow the same procedure in the previous step with the text as:

“netsh -f c:\officeNet.txt”

7. After this you can see these two batch files on the desktop. You just need to double-click on them to change the network settings!

Simple isn’t it? Please share your views and suggestions.