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Product Description:
Setup a wide variety of customizable actions and run any of them in any way you like:
- Configurable hot-keys
- System-wide DoThisNow menu
- At a specific date and time
- Or at any time interval
Just a few real world examples of what you can do with DoThisNow:
- Set a hotkey to change your desktop background to a random picture from a folder. Tired of your current background... just hit a key.
- Set hotkeys to launch your most used applications.
- Set a schedule for your Mac to Optimize itself every night while you sleep.
- Create a set of hotkeys to set custom iChat status.
- Display a message every 15 minutes to remind you to take a break.
- There are so many possibilities. Some that serve a serious need, others that are just plain silly. With a little imagination it's amazing what you can accomplish.
Schedule your computer to perform any of the following tasks:
- Run an AppleScript
- Launch an Application or open a file
- Delete a file
- Type predefined Text
- Type the Date or Time
- Delete the contents of a folder
- Open a URL in the default web browser
- Set the Desktop Background
- Display a text message
- Speak a message
- Set your iChat status and message
- Play any audio file
- Shut Down your Mac
- Restart your Mac
- Log Out
- Put your Mac to sleep
- Run a Unix command
- Optimize your system
- Empty the trash
- Take Screenshot
- Repair Permissions
- Clear Internet Cache
What's new in this version:
- Improved speed opening the configuration window.
- Fixed a graphical glitch in the global DoThisNow menu under OS X 10.4.
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
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
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To Dorianinnes Re: Butler - Version: 1.4.1, 9/5/2004 10:34AM PST
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RadBryan
While it is true that there is some overlap between DoThisNow and Butler in terms of functionality, there are some pretty huge differences between the two. From what I can see Butler does not allow you to schedule actions like DoThisNow does. And it appears that both applications have actions the other does not. And both do things in very different ways.
Been using it and - Version: 1.4.1, 9/5/2004 04:01AM PST
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dorianinnes
going through what it does, I have to say that Butler does everything this does, and then some, ALL for FREE.
$19 my foot.
give butler a chance before you even half think of buying this. the devs have every right to charge for this. but we also have every right to use superior apps that do the same thing for free. :)
$19 my foot.
give butler a chance before you even half think of buying this. the devs have every right to charge for this. but we also have every right to use superior apps that do the same thing for free. :)
Over three weeks ago I bought this hunk a junk. I had problems running it on my new Intel Mac Mini and wrote the support. No one answered. I wrote again after 15 days. Still no answer.
It seems like they were happy to take my money but then they don't care.
I found the following by searching for the developer, Bryan Lund:
"We discovered the dark secret of all those shiny fancy Macs out there. A good portion of the Mac enthusiast that use them are really rude. Really, really rude. We had no idea the kind of mean hurtful things the readers...would say to us"
This is probably due to the huge amount of criticism that Lund took on his blog some time ago (from what I've read) by customers who were dissatisfied with his products and wanted some kind of resolution to unending problems. Apparently Lund took those comments as personal attacks on himself.
Here's further news by blogger Phill Ryu:
"As you...screw your RadicalBreeze customers as well (the people who so generously enabled a half-assed developer to quit his day job and do quite well for years), you frame the entire thing in your favor and send out PRESS RELEASES ..."
Again this apparently describes Lund's actions at the Macworld SF gathering in January of 2006 when he announced the "imminent" release of obvious vaporware "Formation II."
I only wish I'd found out about this stuff *before* I bought this road apple disguised as a Mac app.