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Product Description:
You have plenty to do when you connect your iPod. Wouldn't it be great if it all happened automatically? Well now it can. With iPod Launcher you specify items via System Preferences and, whenever you connect your iPod, they launch.
Include applications like iPod it to automatically update your personal data. Launch an AppleScript to automatically backup your important documents (an example backup script is provided). The possibilities are endless!
What's new in this version:
With this version iPod Launcher is now a Universal application and some rare launching problems have been fixed.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.1 or higher Tiger Compatible
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Can be done with Applescript - Version: 1.6, 2/13/2006 02:24PM PST
dontspammeplease
The same results can be handled with an Applescript folder action attached to the /Volumes folder. There's information on Apple's Applescript pages explaining exactly how to do this.
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- Can be done with Applescript
delayed launches - Version: 1.5, 1/6/2005 08:46AM PST
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earthsaver
Would be really cool if I could tell iPod Launcher to delay the launch of one or all items in the list. Currently I use an AppleScript to delay my backup routine until iSync is likely to be done. Telling iPL to simply wait two minutes before running anything would be more elegant.
Thanks for adding the "next launch" delay! That's a big help, too.
Thanks for adding the "next launch" delay! That's a big help, too.
Too many problems 
- Version: 1.4, 3/10/2004 03:02PM PST
ClassicUser
I love the idea of this, but it simply has too many issues to be really useful:
- Traceable memory leak
- Installation location decisions are awkward (it always installs the prefpane to /Library/PreferencePanes/ - there is no option to keep it local to your account in ~/Library/PreferencePanes/)
- Permissions on the installed components are HORRIBLE (what's up with UID 501 across everything? These items should all be root:admin ownership)
- There are better ways of checking for the presence of an iPod, rathern than scheduling a background task every [x] minutes
I would agree that Apple should provide similar functionality. But for now, simply keeping a folder full of apps/scripts/aliases ON your iPod (which you see when it's mounted, and can launch yourself all at once) appears to be a less-problematic approach.
- Traceable memory leak
- Installation location decisions are awkward (it always installs the prefpane to /Library/PreferencePanes/ - there is no option to keep it local to your account in ~/Library/PreferencePanes/)
- Permissions on the installed components are HORRIBLE (what's up with UID 501 across everything? These items should all be root:admin ownership)
- There are better ways of checking for the presence of an iPod, rathern than scheduling a background task every [x] minutes
I would agree that Apple should provide similar functionality. But for now, simply keeping a folder full of apps/scripts/aliases ON your iPod (which you see when it's mounted, and can launch yourself all at once) appears to be a less-problematic approach.
