Skype mood message countdown on the Mac
I’m currently counting down to one of the most important events in my life. Most of my friends by now know what I’m talking about. But I always forgot to update my Skype mood message - that’s where my friend circle counts days nowadays. The following 8-line Ruby script takes the problem away from me. #!/usr/bin/env ruby deadline = Time.local(2007, 01, 20, 22, 05) seconds = deadline - Time.new days = (seconds / 60 / 60 / 24 * 1000).round / 1000.0 cmdline = "osascript " + "-e 'tell application \"Skype\"' " + "-e 'send command \"SET PROFILE MOOD_TEXT " + days.to_s + " days left\" script name \"Countdown\"' " + "-e 'end tell'" `#{cmdline}` Save that and put the following into your crontab (accessible with crontab -e on the command line): ...