Thanks Ester, your help is greatly appreciated.

Take care

Paula


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From: mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net
[mailto:mac-access-boun...@mac-access.net] On Behalf Of Esther
Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2012 4:12 AM
To: Mac OSX & iOS Accessibility
Subject: Re: Pairing MacBook Air with IPhone 4S

Hi Paula,

I think that Chris means the third-party apps Type2Phone and iKeyboard can
let you use your Mac as a Bluetooth keyboard for inputting text on your
iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. (I don't think there's an app named Mac2Phone.)
And actually Type2Phone should also allow you to control/navigate your iOS
device as well as copy text from Mac to iPhone, provided you turn VoiceOver
off on your Mac, but I've found it a little less stable for this. And the
last  time I checked, iKeyboard had support for more different input
language keyboards, though both will support other languages besides
English.

Here are the URLs at the Mac app store: 
Type2Phone by Houdah Software $4.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/type2phone/id472717129?mt=12
IKeyboard by Invictus Security $9.99
http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ikeyboard/id441439411?mt=12

There are also discussions of these apps in the list archives, starting from
December of last year.  Here's a link to a post replying to a query about
using the Mac as a Bluetooth keyboard for iOS devices, for example:
Re: Using Mac as Bluetooth keyboard
http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/msg08125.html

HTH.  Cheers,

Esther

On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:35 PM, Chris <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote:

> This can be done via a couple of third party Mac Apps which can be bought
from the Mac App store.
> 1. Mac2phone.
> 2. iKeyboard.
> I prefer the latter as it allows you to fully control an iOS device. It
literally emulates a bluetooth hardware keyboard. The former I believe only
allows you to type the text which can then be copied or pasted or directly
send as an SMS.
> 
> 
> Christopher Hallsworth
> 
> On 31/10/2012 07:00, Paula Hobley wrote:
>> Hi Sarah
>> 
>> I just thought that pairing my mac with my phone could mean I could 
>> type my texts instead of using the touch screen.
>> 
>> Cheers
>> 
>> Paula
>> 
>> 
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