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).
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