Last week I had to write some Applescripts to ensure that our installation in Berlin would run two weeks without supervision. I tried a lot to startup an application in the morning and shut it down in the evening, because it's comsuming a lot of ram per minute and would crash after a few hours.

I'm new to Applescript, so I tried to gather informations about the shedule part of my task. How can I tell the script to do the tasks at a specific time? I found a few solutions using crontabs or launchd but I was not satisfied with that solution, because I could not find that much documentation and experience of users I would have loved to.

So I stumbled upon the typical "think different" way once again. Just create an recurrent event in iCal and tell it to launch an Applescript. That's it! It's easy to rearrange tasks, you get a lovely overview of all tasks and I don't have to hustle with the command line in this case. Perfect!