Scheduled Web Browser Software --does it exist ??

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djbeta

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Does anyone know of a way I can program my browser... or Panther, to visit certain web sites at certain times...??? for instance.. bring up weather.com at 4:30pm.. bring up a news web site first thing in the morning..

I'm really not THAT lazy.. I have a good reason for wanting this.. (I frequently shop at online record stores, and I'd love it if it would switch sequentially through the 15 or so online shops I use about once every half hour)
 
Applescript - if you don't know how to do it, post here;

http://bbs.applescript.net/cgi-bin/webbbs_config.pl

The people there will help.

As for the weather, put Meterologist in your menu bar (free)

http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/16142

You can set it to just display the current temp, (40º) and click on that for a drop down of all the forcast, extended forcast and for other cities you can have listed there.

You could also put all the sites you visit in a folder and on the Safari Bookmarks Bar, then open in tabs, just click it once every half hour, the folder opens, go down to Open in Tabs and all pages will refresh. If you're really lazy, this will be too much to do :)
 
You could also use QuicKeys quite easily for this - it is a good app for the less than Gurus among us. It can also call Applescripts or visa verce (how do you spell that?). In the mean time, I'm going to check out CronnIX!!! Thanks NeYo! I am bound and determined to have my Mac read "meaning speak" my new mail to me each morning and this has been a real pain to do with AppleScript and/or QuicKeys.
 
...Cronnix is nice, and runs totally in the background, of course. If you can forgive an app running and launch things for you, you might easily of overlooked iCal. It CAN launch files on 'alarms' for you. :D ;) ...and doesn't require Uber Guru skills to setup! :D :P
 
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