Have you ever needed to schedule a PowerShell script? While you may not need to execute the script right away, you may have a process that must be done daily, monthly or somewhere in between. Common ...

We talk about iCal once in a while. Did you know that an iCal alarm can launch an AppleScript? A recent comment from reader Zach (and subsequent replies) made us think that this tip might be of use to ...

Back in OS X Mountain Lion, it took a seriously complex shell script and recurring Calendar event to schedule Do Not Disturb times. While it’s fun to dig in and mess about with scripts, I much rather ...

We've featured apps like Boomerang that allow you to send scheduled emails from Gmail before. However, it's possible to do the same thing without any additional apps. Amit Agarwal of Digital ...

PowerShell is not just an application, it is a scripting language built on .Net CLR that automates IT tasks. It has backward compatibility with CMD and can automate simple or complex tasks. Because of ...

Sophisticated Circuits has released iDo Script Scheduler 1.5, a Mac OS X utility for running AppleScripts at any time you wish. <?php virtual(“/includes/boxad.inc ...

I would like to script the creation of several tasks, each one though is going to be unique in their details. I would to be able to include in the task creation:<BR><BR>- specify uid/pw for task<BR>- ...

Over the last few years, I have created a vast library of PowerShell scripts that I use to keep my servers healthy. These scripts do everything from monitoring disk health to helping me to reclaim ...

For the life of me, I cannot get simple logging for a command line utility going by using the command argument field of taskschd so I have to resort to targeting a batch script. I was just wondering: ...