Earlier this year I showed you a script to show count downs as Skype mood message. Today we were talking at local.ch (almost a Mac shop now) about the MacBook Pro CPU temperature (too high). So now some of us are putting the temperature into the Skype mood message. First you need to download SpeedIt. Make sure you get the version for the correct operating system release. Then instead of the script in the original article, use this: ...
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): ...