Comments on: Lock your Mac via iPhone and take an iSight picture with login attempts

By: Eric

Eric — Mon, 14 May 2012 18:38:54 +0000

I’ve noticed the same thing. It has no idea my iPhone is present, or at least doesn’t unlock as it’s supposed to. This is the whole reason I got the software in the first place. I don’t want to have to keep re-entering my password every time the darn thing locks!

By: James

James — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 17:15:05 +0000

Hi, this is good but i cannot get the scrips to work.

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By: Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia

Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:01:57 +0000

[...] in the future means locking your Mac when a particular Bluetooth device is not present. RedHand is a security-conscious app for OSX that does just that and [...]

By: makemineamac

makemineamac — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 03:54:31 +0000

Airlock has been doing this for quite awhile now, but with the same quirkiness.

The concept is a great idea, and one that hopefully will evolve into some sort of near field technology that is more powerful and effective than bluetooth.

By: Bramstoker

Bramstoker — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:54:41 +0000

This is AWESOME, it’s a little funky with the iPhone just make sure you have Bluetooth discovery enabled.

If this was refined more (maybe it needs an iPhone keep-alive client app to ping and unlock the Mac app?) they could charge 5x more easily.

The iSight shot on incorrect password is great too, that alone is a great service. I’m pretty happy with the potential this app has.

By: soma-zone

soma-zone — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:49:44 +0000

Hi Sebastian, hi all,

thanks for taking the time to evaluate RedHand.

Currently Bluetooth locking requires the phone to be discoverable. We’re working on a better solution.

Thanks for pointing out the Dock icon issue. We’ll fix that.

If you have any further issues/suggestions, please visit our support site (support.soma-zone.com). We’re always happy to hear from our (potential) customers.

Cheers

Robby

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:24:00 +0000

I wish this would work better. Like Brian and Adam have said before, the bluetooth feature doesn’t work well with my iPhone. It locks the computer randomly when the iPhone goes to sleep and doesn’t unlock automatically at all – except when you force your iphone to become discoverable, which makes it more of a burden than a feature.

Another annoying thing is that I can’t disable the dock icon – whenever I uncheck the box the entire preferences.app crashes.

A neat idea that I’d love to see implemented by Apple.

(What I’ve always used in the past is fast user switching, which can be activated in the user account settings. I supposed you guys know about this. I feel like the way my desktop rotates in a cube-like fashion when I lock my screen is more kickass anyway.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 03:23:57 +0000

I’ve noticed the exact same thing. Hopefully the developers get on this and fix the issue. I have noticed that the system will unlock within seconds if you go to the Bluetooth settings on your iPhone, so that the phone is now discoverable. It also locks up a few minutes after the phone goes back to standby.

By: Adam Turetzky

Adam Turetzky — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 22:07:33 +0000

I’ve tried this with the iPhone and it appears to be a little quirky. It has trouble noticing the phone comes back or left.

By: marc

marc — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:03:54 +0000

You sure this works with an iPhone as the Bluetooth device?

By: Jag

Jag — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:58:34 +0000

I like the look of this. Might be a bit self destructive for me, considering how often I mistype my own passwords.