Mac OS X Leopard - ARCAism

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CHAPTER 5 CONNECTING PERIPHERALS TO YOUR MAC
passkey that you must then enter into the phone to complete the pairing (Figure 5-20). Bluetooth
printers, on the other hand, often have no passkey at all, allowing them to be browsable and
used by all within range.
Figure 5-20. When connecting to a phone, Leopard will provide you with a longer, random passkey
that you will need to enter into your phone to pair the devices.
Once you have paired certain Bluetooth devices to your computer, different applications can
use them in various ways. For example, a Bluetooth-enabled phone (depending on the phone and
the mobile services you subscribe to) can be used within iSync to sync your contacts and calendars
on your computer with those on your phone, and it can also sometimes be used as a modem
or a network device. Bluetooth headsets will be available through the Sound preferences, and
other devices will be available in other areas.
Connecting External Storage
Ever since the advent of the floppy disk, and even the magnetic tapes before that, external storage
has been a popular way of backing up and moving files, adding extra system storage, or even
running entire operating systems. These days with the cost of large external hard drives dropping
and the rampant use of thumb drives and even media devices such as iPods being used for storage,
this trend continues.
Like most things, connecting to external storage in Leopard is easy. In fact, you just plug in
the external storage, and it shows up on your desktop alongside your primary hard drive and
any other storage media you have connected to your computer. To remove it, you first tell your
computer to “eject” the media and then unplug it. Still, there are a few things worth knowing
about: what the differences are between the different types of storage media and what all the
available interfaces are and their advantages.