Location X
Aug. 19th, 2006 03:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
metawidgetA 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.
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.
