Bluetooth Screen Lock: Your Mac is always under supervision, even if you forget about it
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Optimization of any process - a good thing. Always nice when even the most basic actions are performed without any involvement on the part of man. In many different ways to process automation served not obscure service IFTTT, Which has already been mentioned more than once in the MacRadar pages. But there are things that IFTTT (Yet?) Does not support. But handle other applications. It's about a small utility that will automatically block your the Mac, once you move away from it.
Some time ago I wrote about a similar utility called KeycardThat perform similar actions. Had only to move away from the computer, it was blocked by the application, and at the approach - automatically unlock the screen. Application to work, but not without flaws. Sometimes the screen is blocked, even when the smartphone was near.
At first, it certainly is not an inconvenience, but eventually becomes annoying. After the release of the update couples that the situation is not corrected, the developers abandoned the application, so the use of Keycard had to be abandoned. No one wants to on an important presentation application has decided that you have already gone too far, and lock the screen. Although the idea is certainly good.
The hero of this review - Bluetooth Screen Lock - a lock system with your remote (with a smartphone) on Mac.
Settings in the utility quite a bit. To start, you need to connect your smartphone to your computer by standard means (System Settings - Bluetooth), and then when you start the program select an area, the output of which will block your Mac.
For a better understanding of what you need to set the radius, you will see the scale showing signal quality in real time. Option is also available in which to specify the time in seconds from the loss of signal-to-lock. Default - 3 seconds. This means that as soon as your smartphone will go beyond the given radius, it may take three seconds before the screen is locked. Very convenient, if exposed to a small radius, and you, skirting board, get out of the area, but after a moment or two, come back again. Runs out of time, your Mac will not be blocked.
But there are differences in the two programs. The first - the lock screen itself. If Keycard used his own, which allows you to enter a predetermined four-digit password, then Bluetooth Screen Lock Screen Lock uses the most OS X, and, accordingly, the password for your account, it seems to me more securely. The second difference - unlocking system. Bluetooth Screen Lock can not do it, so when he returned after some absence, you will need to select on the lock screen to your account and then enter a password for it.
In general, the application works flawlessly. False positives was not even once. But the lack of automatic unlocking still depressing. But the cost of the application which is lower than the above-mentioned Keycard - only 66 rubles, compared with 229 rubles.