To answer some critics on Cronette:

Cronette does NOT uses Cron facilities
and it doesn't work in any way with/as/on unix cron

Cronette engine is based on a Cocoa internaly written modern engine

It's just the name. Stop

Cronette it's a software to specify tasks to be launched automatically by the Mac

It can be used on unattended Mac Servers or also on regular Mac workstations for tasks to execute during the night or for recurring tasks to be performed on a regular basis.

It provides different type of launch tasks:

• Daily
• Weekly
• Monthly
• Yearly

Any task can be specified to launch different type of execution:

• Open applications or documents from disk
• Open different type of url
• Execute different type of actions: restart, shutdown, sleep
• Sending a message to the log
• Execute a complex unix command

How it works in details
Setting up a task in Cronette is easy.
All the task inside Cronette are rapresented in a table.
The task is visualized in a master and details interface (the same available in thousands and thousands of Mac software)

• User can insert in a document how many tasks he likes
• User can assign to a task a name and a notefield to recognize it

The user can select for a task to run, different plan type:

• Daily: specifying up to 10 different times per day to run it
• Weekly: specifying which day of any week to run it and up to 10 times per day
• Montly: specifing which day of any month to run it and up to 10 times per day
• Yearly: specifying month, day and up to 10 times per day to run it

The user can select wich action to perform when the task is launched

• Select a document or a application or a script to launch using a selection dialog (no error digiting a file path by hands)
• Opening different type of URL
• Execute different action such as restarting, shutting down, sleeping or just sending a message to the log
• Executing a unix command directly from Cronette

Cronette will launch the tasks in background when scheduled. No further actions required.

Cronette add to basic functionalities additional peculiarities:

• Allows to specify a task using Mac standard Cocoa controls (no coding required)
• Instant diagnostic of task as they are inserted, showing errors presence (wrong path, incomplete time execution input and so on..)
• Display of 'runnable' task and 'non runnable' task to better understand what you have inside documents
• Shows the chronological schedule for any separate task
• Shows the chronological schedule for all the tasks combined, inside a user selected time interval. The user can watch the future...
• Display executed process in a separate log Window for any documents
• It's document based, allowing to have different tasks grouped in separate documents set
• Can operate Cronette as a Utility tool simply using just one document and having it opened at startup without further actions (preference option)

Cronette is not a port of previous applications
It was written from scrath in Objective-C using the last technology for OS X.
It is fast, effective and very light to run for your Mac.
It will be further developed and improved as we do with all our software