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Use a Bluetooth 4 enabled Mac running Mavericks (not Yosemite) as an iBeacon

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Mavericks (not Yosemite) as an iBeacon

NOTE: THIS DOES NOT WORK IN YOSEMITE!!! Apple have closed the loophole that
allowed a Mac to be used as an iBeacon in Mavericks.

Use a Bluetooth 4 enabled Mac running Mavericks (not Yosemite) as an iBeacon.

See http://www.blendedcocoa.com/blog/2013/11/02/mavericks-as-an-ibeacon/ for more details.

Contributors

Original Mavericks iBeacon support by Matthew Robinson ([email protected]).

User Interface provided by Falko Richter (falko at briefhansa dot de).

License

Copyright © 2013, Matthew Robinson
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