If you're an iBook/PowerBook user who is co tantly fiddling with various settings depending on where you are,point your mouse towards Location X for the solutionto all your preference-changing woes. I only played with this for about 5 minutes before plunking down my $20 for it,as I am already in love. This a makes me cry out "why doe 't OS X do this already??" Then I realize I'malone in my apartment right now, which just makes me feel weird.
Anyway, Location X is e entially amanagement a for all the various settings you might have to co tantly set and reset, depending on which networksyour Mac co ects to throughout the day. For example: in between cla es, I use wifi at Starbucks since all of thenetworks on my campus have most of their ports restricted. Well, Starbucks' wifi treats SMTP servers that requireauthentication in an odd way, so I'm co tantly having to change my SMTP server when I sit down for a cup o' joe. ButLocation X, as you can see in my scree hot, can do so much more. Not only can this latest v2.5 do automatic networkdetection, it can set default printers, adjust energy settings, change browser homepages, run a lescripts, changesecurity preferences and so much more. It even has a plugin architecture, opening the doors for anyone elseto build in even more settings and functionality.
I highly recommend this a for any of you mobile warriorsout there who are tired of co tantly adjusting settings like these, simply because you're on the go during the day.Location X is shareware which costs $20 (a bargain, if you ask me), while a demo that allows for 8 location switches isavailable here.
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