Posted on Thursday 17 November 2005 - Popularity: unranked
Nah, this isn’t a new sport for nerds, I don’t force you to mount an external harddisk and launch an application on it as fast as possible, really, but what else could this “Set, mount and launch!” be you may ask? Lets say you have an external firewire harddisk for your regular backups. Normally you would connect the disk and than launch your backup application to create a new backup. Wouldn’t it be easier if the backup application automatically launches when you mount the drive in the same way as iTunes starts if you insert a music CD or as iPhoto launches if you connect your digital camera? Wouldn’t that be nice? Definitely and I’m sure you already guessed it, I’m going to show you how and you don’t even have to hack the system, promised.
It’s actually pretty easy. There’s a preference pane by the name Do Something When. This pane lets you define applications that should be launched whenever a specific disk becomes mounted on your system. Additionally to launching an application, you can automatically quit applications or open a document. There really isn’t much more to say about this, just select the disk that should launch the app when mounted and the app that should be launched, so if you have a disk that should launch an app, get this preference pane, as easy as that.
Fredi
