Location X

[metawidget]

A while ago, I was looking for a utility that would attach SMTP settings to my location settings in Mac OS X.

I found one, mentioned on TidBITS: Location X. It's a shareware utility that not only ties 14 control panels' worth of settings to a location in its own system-wide menu, it also switches locations automatically, triggered by entering or leaving a given wireless network. The switch takes a couple of seconds and saves me running around to three or four different preference screens: I just turn the wireless card on and get on with what I'm doing. Any Mac laptop user who hops from network to network should consider getting a copy.

I like it very much, and at $20 for a license which gets rid of the nag screen (unlicensed users get a nag screen and a limited number of switches), it's pretty reasonable.

Comments

[ubergreenkat.livejournal.com]

I think it's brilliant that that whole paragraph was pretty much total gibberish to me, but nonetheless, obviously means something to you and to other people.

[ungratefulbiped.livejournal.com]

Man, what I've been craving like crazy lately is something like this that will automatically change my adium/IM status to reflect my location depending on wireless network. I guess a plugin for this would work, wish I was a plugin writer.