Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

Useful Tidbits and Egotistical Musings from Dan Wood

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Wed, 09 Apr 2003

I'll be presenting at the Diablo Valley MUG on April 15th

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While many of us will be working on getting out our income taxes at the last minute, I'll be at the meeting of the Diablo Valley Macintosh User Group in Walnut Creek, California, talking about who knows what. They will probably convince me to show off a few features from the upcoming update to Watson. If you're in the East Bay, come to the meeting and say Hi!

Use a bit of command-line magic to pop up reminders

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Here's a tidbit for the more technically inclined user of Mac OS X (in otherwords, somebody who can deal with the terminal and shell scripts): You can create "cron" jobs to pop up periodic reminders! For example, I have my development system configured to pop up a reminder every afternoon to remember to check in my files.

Use Cronnix (or if you're brave, edit your crontab file manually) to run your reminder script whenever you wish. In my case, I have a line in my crontab file to invoke my "remind_cvs" script:

30 16 * * * /Users/dwood/bin/remind_cvs

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