With the recent launch of Moosejaw's Tha Lowdown, and sites like Steep and Cheap that offer one-day, while-supplies-last deals on outdoor gear, I have been in need of a way to load these pages at their scheduled update times without forgetting. Both have RSS feeds, but they have proven problematic.
I did some searching and found a post on the MacNN forums that suggested I use Cronnix, a cron GUI, that can be used to launch a simple script whenever you want. The following script will load a page in your default browser:
I did some searching and found a post on the MacNN forums that suggested I use Cronnix, a cron GUI, that can be used to launch a simple script whenever you want. The following script will load a page in your default browser:
osascript -e 'open location "http://www.macosxrumors.com"' > /dev/null
Now that I have it set up to load ThaLowdown.com when the deal changes, I am going to explore using this same concept to have the Boulder, Colorado GPS-tracked bus schedule loaded for me every day when I wake up. I can think of a lot of individual applications of this idea as well.
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