Starting up the Computer
Starting up the Computer
- Subject: Starting up the Computer
- From: Anthony Alireza Abud <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 00:47:50 -0500
Dear Applescripters,
I am still a novice or at least I consider myself because of the vast
amounts of scripting
knowledge I still don't have. Anyhow, I find that the energy control panel
is useful if you want to start up your computer at a specific time. For
example, I set it to start up every morning at 6:00 a.m. and find that I can
put scripts in the start up folder, like retreiving my mail.
If you have outlook express for example:
tell application "Outlook Express"
activate
try
connect to POP account "someaccountname"
on error
end try
end tell
Simple? Yes, but effective nonetheless. Hence, Macintosh. I can also
use IDoScript Scheduler which lets me specify different times and days of
the weeks to launch a script or however many I choose. So now I also have a
simple script like...
tell application "Finder"
activate
try
shut down
on error
end try
end tell
...which I can either put in the startup items folder in the system folder
or I can use the IDoScript Scheduler to shut down whenever I like.
I want to have the computer start up at 6:00 a.m., download my mail,
download some webpages and then shut down at, lets say 6:30 a.m. I have
more or less gotten the computer to do these things. My qualm, is that I
wanted the computer to start back up the same day before I got home at 7:00
p.m. and download any new mail, and perhaps recheck some websites, and
headlines and have them ready when I arrive. Is there a simple way around
only having the energy panel allow you a one time shot to start up the
computer? Or is there an applescript command that I'm missing. I suppose
there'll be a few third party stuff, shareware, beerware but how do they do
it?