HomeZone — your Mac adapts to its surrounding
Searching for solutions to the problem of unauthorised people using my Mac at school while I’m away to help out someone else, I set up the top left corner of my screen to trigger my screensaver — to stop the screensaver, you need to enter a password.
So each time I leave my MacBook Pro, I move the mouse to the top left position and my session is locked — but I didn’t want to type in my password over and over again if I’m at home. This is where HomeZone comes into play — a free tool that detects Airport and Bluetooth networks/devices and changes settings depending on the indentified surrounding.
Home Zone monitors Airport networks and Bluetooth devices in your proximity and can automatically trigger user-definable actions when configured networks or devices appear or disappear.
Available actions include enabling or disabling the screen saver password, switching network locations, setting the system volume, locking all keychains or opening any file, application or URL.
I use it to disable the screensaver password when I’m at home and to enable it again as well as reduce the volume when I’m not.
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You could just disable the screen saver. Your monitor is switching to power save anyway.
No, because I’d like it to run even if I forget to move my mouse in the upper left corner.
There’s often the situation that you have to go to another workstation that is very near to your’s and you expect this to take very little time ‚Äthen you don’t think of activating your screensaver. If it should take longer before you return, your session is locked anyhow.