MAKE magazine’s weblog has a post linking to this site. This guy wrangled MSN Messenger and Windows Media Center to allow a user to schedule recordings by sending IMs. This was always an idea I’ve had, so congratulations, Casey.
My idea also included the ability to tie into a calendar and task list. You could add events by sending an IM to your PC, “event Meet Joe at coffee shop 7pm tomorrow reminder 15 min,” and it would parse it, recognize it as a calendar event, stick it in Outlook or Google Calendar, and set it to send you an IM 15 minutes beforehand as a reminder. You could send, “events,” and it would tell you the upcoming events for the next 5 days. You could also send a message, “todos,” and it would send back your task list. You could put your grocery list on there, too. “groceries” would list everything you need. “groceries add milk” would add milk to the list. This could all be done to/from your phone. Most phones use AIM. Some count AIMs as SMS text messages.
I’ve got several AIM screennames. One at my home PC, one on my laptop, one on my work PC, one for my phone, and another one or two that I planned on using as “bots” like this. Maybe one day I’ll actually do it.
