I have a undoubtful group of websites that I like to have automatically opened each daylight when I get up for coffee. Yeah I know it’s not the type of thing that everyone will want to do, but I found a pretty neat way to do it, and thought I should pass it along to you guys. whether you are new to Automator that may additionally serve as a really basic ‘getting started’ guide as well.

Open up Automator and choose a Custom project. Drag the following by to the right window:

• Under Library | Web, drag by Get Specified URLs. visit the small pointer to open it up (if necessary), remove the default link to Apple and add entries for the sites you wish to open.
• Then drag by “Display Webpages” - nothing to configure there.
• Optionally, from Library | Utilities drag by “Show Growl Notification”, open it up and fill it in to give you
  a Growl notification when the sites have been loaded.

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Go to the File menu, go Save as Plug-In, and save it as an iCal plug in. Whatever you type in the text box here will seem on your iCal calendar pages, and is additionally the name of the app file. In iCal set up the instance you want that to fire and of course be certain to set it as a repeating event, whether that’s what you want.

And whether you don’t like the fact that it leaves Automator open in your menu bar, look at this post on macosxhints for directions on how to fix that.

The nice thing about it is that whether your default browser is Firefox next the hyperlinks open in Firefox, not Safari.

Original post by Doc Logic