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Ask TUAW: Making contact sheets, adjusting multiple files' properties, using network locations, and more

by Mat Lu (Sep 16th, 2009)

Welcome back to Ask TUAW, our weekly Mac troubleshooting Q&A column. This week we've got questions about making photo contact sheets, adjusting properties for multiple files at the same time in the Finder, automatically managing settings based on location, changing the spell check language in ...

Home Zone

by Mat Lu (Jun 5th, 2007)

A while back we mentioned MarcoPolo, a location manager for the Mac that can change certain system settings based on the particular wireless network or devices you're connected to. Home Zone offers a similar capability allowing you to set up a variety of actions (e.g. changing the default printer, ...

MarcoPolo: automatic location manager

by Mat Lu (Apr 25th, 2007)

We've previously mentioned locations managers like Location X ($20) and NetworkLocation ($15). These are tools that can change a variety of settings depending on your location (e.g. SMTP server, default printer, etc.). This is very convenient for mobile users moving between work and home, etc. ...

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