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LocationChanger

LocationChanger

auto reconfigures settings and programs for local network

Version:  1.3

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Great concept, GUI very limited

Feedback Type:  Review

Contributed by: Strider72 Wednesday, December 27 2006 @ 01:20 PM PST

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Less than a month

Recommend Product: NO

The main idea of this program is excellent, and something I have been wishing for with OS X for quite a while.

What we have here is an interesting start, but a bit too rough around the edges for everyday use. First off, I wish it could changesettings without starting up all the programs involved. As soon as it kicks in, iTunes, iChat, Mail, etc. all run.

The GUI is a good start, but also needs some refinement. A simple drop-down menu of various settings files would be much preferable to the confusing type-in box. If I type in the name of an existing settings file, it fetches the computer's _current_ settings (starting up iTunes... etc...). Huh???

Documentation is virtually nonexistent, sadly. This would probably be a lot more useful with some how-tos attached.

Worse, is that there are some things this program implements that I cannot seem to turn off, and they are screwing up my computer.

Somehow the settings file I set up is set to turn on Privoxy, and I have to go manually turn it off every time. I blanked out the Privoxy field in the GUI, but it still changes this every time -- how do I turn this off?

So this is a good, but very rough, start. I would like to see this further developed, but for the time being, I'm not sure if it's worth dealing with the issues.

BTW, if you're trying to get Growl to work: try this in the Growl Notify field:
/usr/local/bin/growlnotify   
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Great concept, GUI very limited - geoff23

The GUI is new and most of my effort has gone into the scripts which actually do the work. The pull-down is a good suggestion: the reason why your current environment is getting loaded is probably because "get" is the default button and you're hitting return.

I don't understand why programs are launching when you hit "get". However, if you give a location setting for a particular application (like iChat) and that application is not running when the location is detected, the application will launch automatically (I call this a feature in that you don't have to manually start up all sorts of programs when you're in a new location).

I'm concerned about privoxy and unintended actions. I would appreciate it if you sent me an e-mail with further details (my e-mail address is in the Readme).

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