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Set Your Chat Privacy on a Schedule
Posted by Adam Pash at 4:00 AM on July 1, 2008
All things Mac web site Macworld details how to set your instant message privacy status on a schedule to help you stay productive during your busy times. Unfortunately there are no IM clients that allow for privacy scheduling, so the article details how to adjust your privacy settings on a schedule using AppleScript. The script, which works with the popular Adium instant messaging client, focuses on the privacy settings, but you could just as easily tweak the script to change your status on a schedule as well. Whatever your preference, scheduling your visibility and status in your IM client could make a huge difference in your productivity and help cut down significantly on interruptions.
Tags: applescript | chat | communicate | im | mac os x | privacy
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jacobsm
Posted 5:38 AM 1/7/08
Is there anything like this for Pidgin?
Was LH down for everybody or just me? All I was getting was the page header and some sidebar. Top 5 stories on top worked though.
jacobsm
wargamer17
Posted 6:00 AM 1/7/08
Ya it was down for me too. But um, on topic, this seems like a really interesting script. I've been thinking of something like this for a while. Will defiantly have to try it out sometime.
wargamer17
ejoy
Posted 5:55 AM 1/7/08
I've always wanted something like this.
(Well, close. What I'd really like to figure out to do is get my calendar application to set the away message on my IM client according to my meetings -- but since this would be most useful for me on my Windows PC at work, I'm not sure how I'd manage that... )
ejoy
cidus
Posted 2:07 AM 2/7/08
Pidgin plugin for this: [plugins.guifications.org]
cidus