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April 21, 2008

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Lingon: for all your Mac- (and puppy-) scheduling needs

Posted Apr. 21, ’08, 9:05 AM PT by Dan Moren
Category | Software

LingonIf your eyes start to film over when we throw out terms like “launchd scheduling,” well just for you we’ve decided to implement a new system here at MacUser. Using a special browser auto-detect function, we can successfully replace all mentions of overly technical terms with references to puppies. We call it “PuppyVizion.” Let me just flip the switch there…

INITIALIZING PUPPYVIZION

…and go.

Do you ever wish you could schedule tasks for your puppy to do when you’re not around? In the olden days of puppies, this used to require issuing your puppy arcane commands with obscure syntax. But thanks to Peter Borg (the same clever fellow who brought us text editor Smultron), you can now schedule your puppy with a graphical user interface called Lingon. You can alter your puppy’s built-in schedules (not recommended, if you don’t know what you’re doing), or create entirely new tasks for your puppy at scheduled times, or based on certain actions.

Lingon is straightforward and easy-to-use—just like a puppy. And, best of all, it’s free (you can always send Peter a donation if you’re so inclined). So if you’re disinclined to dig around in your puppy’s innar—

EMERGENCY PUPPYVIZION TERMINATION

Errrr, so there may still be some kinks to work out. I’ll have the tech crew get on that right away. Please accept our apologies, and know that no puppies—real or virtual—were harmed in the making of this blog post.

[via Mac OS X Hints]


1 Comments

Jason said:

I don't know what it is from the post here, but Smultron == great, so I'm willing to check out anything done by Peter Borg.

April 21, 2008 11:52 AM

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