dippies!

Managed to do it by accident but now that I learned the right way to do it, I’m sharing :)

Pair the headphones with both the Mac and the iPhone, and leave bluetooth on on both devices. Turn off the headset.

On the Mac, open the Bluetooth Preference Pane and check Show Bluetooth status in the menu bar. From the menu bar, click the Bluetooth icon, find the Nokia BH-503 entry and click Use as Audio Device (Stereo); then quickly hold the headset’s multifunction key for 2 seconds to turn it on.

If the timing is correct, the Mac will use the headset for stereo output and the iPhone will use it for input and mono output. It works just as expected: if you’re listening to music on iTunes and make or receive a call, iTunes pauses and resumes playing. But if it’s left idle for too long, the iPhone will disconnect from it to save battery.

This is how I watch subtitled .avi on my PS3.

Sadly, there’s no AVIAddXSubs for Mac, and I couldn’t find any replacement¹. So I tried to run it using Wine, and it works just fine.

It’s X11. Fonts are ugly. It’s not very small. First launch is slow, but have faith, the main window will appear.

BUT if you can handle all that, you’ll be able to add soft subtitles (as in, you can turn them off if you want) to 40min .avi files in two minutes or less. No reencoding at all. And the output file works on the PS3 flawlessly. Multiple subtitles on the same file are supported too (up to eight).

Wanna give it a try? Get AVIAddXSubsSC.dmg (68,7MB)—unless you already have Wine, then I’d suggest AVIAddXSubs.dmg, a smaller package (15,5MB) without the embedded Wine.app. Both packages have AVIAddXSubs version 9.5.

If you need help using the app you can go to the AVIAddXSubs’s webpage. And when watching your converted files, don’t forget to turn the subs on using the triangle menu.

¹ The best 2nd option I tried was using mencoder (post in portuguese) but it wasn’t as fast and subtitles are burnt in.