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): ...

January 9, 2007 · Patrice Neff

Call center with Skype

On the Skype Developer Zone Blog there is an explanation how you can set up a call center with Skype. Apparently different people can log in to the same Skype account and then take calls from there. The only question that remains: can I log in to two accounts at the same time? Because I’d definitely want to be logged in to my personal Skype account at the same time as well. ...

May 14, 2006 · Patrice Neff