Phoenix Freeze Turns a Blue Tooth Cell into a PC Proximity Lock

So, you say that you are too busy to tap out a few hot keys to lock down your PC when you step away from your desk for a few minutes. Apparently the folks over at Phoenix Freeze feel your pain and are ready to make a few bucks off of it via their Blue Tooth “Freeze” application.

Freeze allows users to transform your cell phone into an automatic proximity lock for their PCs running XP or Vista. It does this by linking up a Blue Tooth enabled cell phone with one or multiple computers, which automatically lock up when you and your phone move more than a set distance away from your computer(s). The program automatically unlocks the computer(s) when you come back within range and also allows you to place your computer into sleep mode via this link with your phone as well. Again, “tap-tap-tap” does the same thing, but we have to justify the existence of that Blue Tooth technology, right. The Phoenix Freeze website is running a free trial offer for the app, and according to Engadget is lobbying to get itself added to that secret list of vendor software that is bundled with new PCs. If you are down with the Blue Tooth thing and are never without your phone, you can check out a demo of Phoenix Freeze in action here.

–Tom Milnes