Oh boy oh boy. Just when you though I couldn't love cell phones and macs any more... I was pointed in the direction of a little OS X app called Blue Phone Elite

Basically, this little whatsit does everything imaginable with your cell phone, via bluetooth.

Out of the box, it has the ability to display incoming calls on your screen, send and receive text messages and allow you to view address book entries (it DOES NOT sync your address book, that's what iSync is for).

This is nothing though. One of it's coolest features is the ability to "sense" "proximity".

Basically, when your phone wanders our of range, it can automagically pause iTunes, iDVD, and set iChat away.

It also (of course) has plugin support by way of the loverly Applescript. First thing you should get? Growl and VLC.

Incoming call? Pause your VLC movie and display a large growl notification of the callers name and number. Better yet, don't pause, just display the notification, but pause if you take the call. Hang up? Resume playing.

It's that hot.

The problem of course is that I don't (like anyone else sane) use iChat. I use Adium X

Check the BPE Extras page, sure enough there is an Adium away script. Unfortunately, it's a bit convoluted and bloated for what it needs to do, not to mention hard coded paths. I decided to write my own smaller, simpler set of scripts.

I of course have submitted these, and I have a few other toys I am working on, but for now, you can download them here..

Have fun!