At the Mac EXPO 2005 in London (http://www.mac-expo.co.uk) I am going to demonstrate some Automator workflows that use iCal and .Mac to regularly backup your data or to reply to an email by shooting a photo and putting it online.
You can download the workflows and use them as a basis for your own programs. Don’t forget to customize them to fit in your Mac’s setup.
To invoke your photo workflow by sending a mail to yourself with the subject “spy”, save the workflow “Put Photo on Website” as a Folder Actions plugin named “spy”, open the script folder in your home folder’s Library and change the folder action script to look like this:
tell application
“PB:Users:YOURUSERNAMEHERE:Library:Workflows:Applications:Folder Actions:spy.app”
activate
end tell
Now open your Mail program, choose Preferences->Rules and create a new rule that invokes the AppleScript “Spy”, that you just changed, whenever you send yourself a mail with the subject “spy”. That’s basically it! Now enjoy creating your own Automator workflows…