If you work in more than one place on the one laptop, as I do, this Automator Action promises to be a Godsend. When I arrive in my office at uni, the first thing I need to do is switch locations in the Apple menu, switch over the SMTP server for all my mail accounts, turn iTunes down by 60% (”No Barenaked Ladies in this faculty, please!”), select the network printer, and so on and so on…..
Charles Schoenfeld’s action promises to automate all that for me and more. In one hit it switches “network location, sound volume, SMTP servers, whether to fetch mail automatically, enabling/disabling of individual e-mail accounts, default printer selection.” It requires some customization for your individual needs, but full instructions are included in the archive.
It is donation-ware and is available from AutomatorWorld.
The ability of being effective in trasnfering ones access to location t location is invaluable…thank you
Excellent. It’s one of the most useful things that I have found too.
You might also want to consider Location X:
http://homepage.mac.com/locationmanager/
It’s not free, and some aspects of it are a little buggy, but for the most part it works. Plus, it sounds like it does a lot more than LocationSwitch (though I haven’t tried LocationSwitch).
However, the really nice thing about Location X, which basically installs the “Location Manager” from OS 9 fame, is that it is able to switch all of your settings automatically when you enter a new wireless network. If you only sit on wireless networks, everything’s automatic. (well, that’s the theory. There’s a bug where sometimes it gets a little stuck, but it usually works pretty well)
When you plug into a wired network, you still have to manually change, but it’s as easy as selecting a new location from a drop down menu. (though when it gets stuck the menu gets a little funny)
It’s a great automator action,
only the dl link isn’t working anymore, they’ve changed it to http://automatorworld.com/download/location-switch.zip
Reinout: Thanks for letting me know. I’ve updated the link the post.