Originally posted by Russian Mac fan:
I would like to be able to launch Sherlock or something else that I use and show me the stock ticker results for the day. Say, at 5 pm. Now, I am aware of programs that would have this info running but the program has to be launch by me. I would like to time the launch of the program. Thanks 
You could do this with a cron job. Not sure if you have any UNIX familiarity, if not you'd have some learning ahead of you. Also there's a way to launch OS X .app files (e.g. Sherlock.app) which is a bit of a trick -- I can't remember the details.
So it's definitely possible and relatively straightforward. I'd recommend you pick up "Mac OS X for UNIX geeks" and read up on the terminal commands and cron.
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