You can set up different notifications - visual or audio - for each type of device, as well as for connections and disconnections. monitors FireWire, USB, Bluetooth, and network connections, and notifies you when a new device is connected and when a connected device is no longer available. Granted Software’s $7 Peripheral Vision 1.6 ( And via its Protocol Helpers tab, MisFox provides access to the same helper-application settings as More Internet, though I prefer More Internet for this purpose because of its drag-and-drop interface.Īlthough OS X’s System Profiler application is helpful if you want to see what is connected to your Mac at a given moment, sometimes you want to know when devices have connected or disconnected successfully. MisFox also lets you create new file mappings and delete settings. Most important, the Postprocessing setting lets you choose what to do with downloaded files. The settings for a particular mapping include the MIME type (also known as the content type) and the file extension, and, if necessary, the creator code and file type. MisFox provides a list of almost every type of file you’ll encounter on the Web, and it lets you decide which application should open each file type.
For this purpose, Alexander Clauss’s free MisFox 1.2 (
Specifically, neither it nor OS X provides an interface for editing file mappings - settings that determine which application will handle each type of file you’re likely to download from the Internet.
However, there are a number of settings to which even More Internet doesn’t give you access.