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- potifer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13This program will erase all my fears and ease all my worries.
- h3xley, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Location Manager was available with System 7.1 and bundled with 7.5 IIRC. This isn't new to OS X by any stretch of the imagination.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15Of course Vista has some better features than Tiger! That's to be expected. Anyone who tells you otherwise is a god damn fool.
Leopard, however, will wipe the floor with Vista. That, I hope, will be a fact. - hbuswell, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Damn, I've wanted this app for ages, it's gonna make my life 100% better.
- Firehed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That would be great; it looks like the only way to do it with the actions right now is by running a script with the 'open' action. I think a better use might be unmounting those shares whenever you leave that location, since OS X tends to completely freak out when a network share suddenly isn't there. It's not really a difficult script, but a full-on mount/unmount feature in the program would be even better.
For the record, the five lines to use in the script editor are thus:
tell application "Finder"
try
mount volume "protocol://ip_address/ShareName"
end try
end tell
Add more mount lines below if you want multiple shares to mount. I think it would be safe to assume that you can unmount volumes when leaving a location in a very similar way. - spectre_25gt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3w00t! Maybe this will help me in my quest to automount my AFP shares. There are a lot of ways to do it, but the best rely on you being connected to your home network all the time. With this I might be able to trigger it only when I'm at a specific location.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Needs Firewire detection for its guesses. I usually don't use any USB devices except for a flash drive.
- directive0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you like Windows thats great, I like it too. But if you aren't interested in using a Mac or anything to do with it why was this article relevant to you in the first place and what made you click it? Further more what made you think random people care what OS you're using and why you like it?
- samuelcotterall, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Now to find something that automatically reloads my iTunes playlist depending on whether I have my 320GB drive plugged in.
- Wolfman~K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I can't wait around for leopard, and I doubt leopard will use "fuzzy" logic to key to look at serveral different parameters and then make an educated guess. This app is very good, the logic is strong, the gui needs a bit of polish but its a good program.
Most likely Leopard will simply trigger default printer and maybe smtp changes when you manually change your location in the Apple menu. I like this cause it automatically figures out where I am and triggers the location change. The location change then triggers actions like default printer, smtp settings, or shell scripts. Leopard may have the actions triggers, but thats only half of the story here. - fofusion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Dude I have the same problem.
At College they run through a proxy so I'm forced to use safari which is okay but I'm always loading firefox. - Codename, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Very nice!
- goldeneyes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You might want to check out "Do Something When" as it facilitates the functionality you're looking for.
DESCRIPTION
Do Something When is a system preference pane that allows the user to watch for drives mounting and un-mounting, allowing you to launch or quit applications, when these events happen.
You'll need to write an Applescript that will quit iTunes, set library location and start iTunes on mount; and then reverse the library location change on unmount. - Legolover64, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Phenomenal program! I'm loving the fuzzy-logic confidence slider.
Anyone know how to make Firefox use the environment variables? That would make my browsing experience complete, I found an Environment Variables proxy extension, but I don't know what OS X calls their variables. - egypturnash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I discovered this little tool a few weeks ago, right when I needed it. There's a few others out there that do pretty much the same thing, but MarcoPolo is the only one that uses currently-connected USB devices as a location selector - which was a completely reliable indicator of my Mac being on a desk in the office, where it needed different network settings.
- sdenike, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Good find!
- kiwifish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This app seems really useful -- i'll give it a shot. Something that seems related; my network locations include proxy settings, which is great except that Firefox doesn't pick them up from the system preferences. Annoying! Are there any diggers that have found a way to force Firefox to play nice? That's the last piece in an automagic-network-switching puzzle for me!
- alansky, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"Switching your current location is much easier than changing all those individual settings, yet you still have to explicitly switch to the correct location each time."
Huh? Am I missing something here? Why is this program necessary when all that is required to change locations in OS X is to click the Blue Apple, scroll down to "Locations" and select the one you want. This maneuever should take about 2-3 seconds tops, no additional software required! - ethanfortes, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1If it's submitted by kevin, we all love it.
- Wolfman~K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1it has those as of today's release
- jataervie, on 10/21/2008, -0/+1this is hot
- theschoolbag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+0I think this will do what you want! I am just about to try it myself!
http://blog.curthread.org/projects/systemproxy - dsymonds, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0There's nothing in Leopard (as of WWDC build) that does anything like MarcoPolo.
- doc10monark, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Try foxyproxy; http://foxyproxy.mozdev.org/
- otomo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1FYI: Leopard will fix this in the os.
- jataervie, on 10/21/2008, -1/+0this is hot
- davidskp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0I connect through a proxy at my university too and my Firefox works fine.
In Firefox go to Preferences -> Advanced - > Network -> Settings, and make sure that "Auto-detect proxy settings for this network" is selected.
Works for me anyway :) - longofest, on 11/07/2007, -6/+3your life must really suck... you need Jesus
... it is a nice app though - wisie, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1And I was thinking this was going to be about polo shirts, oops.
- alwaysmc2, on 10/12/2007, -16/+3This is a great example of something that I don't like about OS X. There is a feature that has it's own name for some reason. More than that, it's cutesy. MarcoPolo? please.
This feature is in Windows, and it's just there. That's how I like it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -20/+4Could have sworn Vista has this exact functionality built in.
OS X truly is ahead of Windows in every way.
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