Auto-lock your Mac machine with iPhone or iPod Touch

It often becomes a pain to lock and unlock your Mac machine when you are in a crowded area and you need to move away from your machine every now and then. Fortunately, here is a smart application that automates the process of this frequent locking and unlocking.

Named as Airlock, it is an application that automatically locks your Mac machine when you leave and automatically unlocks it when you return. Basically, Airlock uses your iPhone or iPod Touch’s Bluetooth connectivity to detect your proximity to your Mac machine.

You are believed to carry your iPhone (with Bluetooth connection ON) with you when you are working on your Mac machine. Your Mac machine is automatically locked once you move away from your Mac and it stops receiving signals from your iPhone or iPod’s Bluetooth device. It is unlocked only once the Bluetooth signal is detected again.

Airlock provides quite a good load of options to make the process even more techie. It lets you set options to lock/unlock within a specified range of Bluetooth connection and also allows you to set up a password which will come handy in case the Airlock system fails.

Airlock Website