Disk O Matic 1.0
Disk O Matic
Disk & File · v1.0 · info-mac
| Filename | disk-o-matic-10.hqx |
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| Size | 166.1 KB (170099 bytes) |
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Program: Disk-o-Matic 1.0 Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini Price: $10 (shareware) Register: http://order.kagi.com/?67 Download: http://www.montalcini.com
Disk-o-Matic lets you automatically open an item when its disk is inserted or mounted. Here are a few examples of what you can do with it:
- automatically display text or picture clippings with specific information about each of your removable disks. - create multimedia CD-ROMs that automatically start up their presentation when inserted. - open the document you're working on as soon as its disk is mounted. - have your Mac play a different sound for each of your Zip disks as soon as you slide one of them in the drive. - automatically run an antivirus or repair utility from an emergency disk. - run a complex AppleScript or macro when a backup disk is mounted.
After a disk has been configured, the Disk-o-Matic application itself is no longer required to make the auto-launch feature work. You can take the modified disk to any other Mac without Disk-o-Matic and still have the chosen item automatically launched, as long as QuickTime is properly installed and configured (see below).
Disk-o-Matic takes advantage of a new QuickTime feature that allows you to automatically launch a specified item as soon as a disk is mounted. This feature is called "Enable CD-ROM AutoPlay" and must be turned ON in the QuickTime control panel. Despite its name, it actually works with all kinds of disks, not just with CD-ROMs; you can set an auto-launching item for floppy disks, Zip disks, disk images, and any other removable or fixed disks except your startup disk. The startup disk can't use this feature because it is mounted before QuickTime is loaded, but then you can use the "Startup Items" folder instead.
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