Disk-o-Matic 1.0 - auto-launch items when their disk is inserte

Program: Disk-o-Matic 1.0
Author: Alessandro Levi Montalcini
Price: $10 (shareware)
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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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