computers are just plain cool - well, more specifically the people coding and coming up with all these neat ideas, which makes using computers real fun:
since upgrading to osx I missed the freeware iScriptLite which was set to daily backup my PM address book and my PM database plus to check my (oh so many) secondary accounts. With the ability to set various schedules for various accounts, the last script was not so important anymore, but the automated daily backup I miss. now I found a way to automate this - right out of iCal! I found it on VersionTracker and it is called "iCal_Script_Integrator". this allows you to activate AppleScript as a timed event, and as a repeating timed event my daily backups again happen, gone the hassle of trying to remember daily to do it. I have now created a calendar especially and only for scripts in iCal to make full use of this b/c next to this usage, there are so many other possible uses when integrating AppleScript into ical, it's just plain cool, imagine, by using a published calendar (which can be published on any FTP server with another small iCal utility) I could even activate specific AppleScripts on an external drive to control that drive! now, tell me this is not cooler than pie! ;-) ---marlyse p.s. and another total fun gadget are widgets which are built on java and to be used with Konfabulator - 250 such widgets (some really useful, many just plain fun or nice to look at) can be found at konfabulator.com - for example right now I have 3 weather locations (2 in the US plus 1 in Switzerland) and 2 world time units (nicely styled) entertain my idle eye - constantly updating and showing time, temperature, day/night and weather condition all (if you get hooked, you'll be double glad having a big cinema display) - me a visual geek? no way!! :) --------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mancoStudios.com --------------------------- we too have been infected: http://www.mancoStudios.com/blogs/mStudios.html ---------------------------
