Mac power users love to play with scripting and automation. If there's something that's repetitive that needs to be done, it's a lot easier just to either use Automator to automate the process or ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

Before you even bother with Apple's powerful Automator and AppleScript tools, your Mac is capable of saving you time and speeding up your work every day. You're too busy to look into automating your ...

The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

Veteran Mac users across the developer and pro communities are reeling at the news that Sal Soghoian’s position as Product Manager of Automation Technologies at Apple has been terminated, after nearly ...

There’s more to major OS X updates than introducing entirely new features such as Time Machine. Apple also takes the opportunity to freshen up existing applications, adding new capabilities or ...

With Mac OS X v10.4 “Tiger’s” release planned for April 29, 2005, the coordinators of AppleScript Pro Sessions have announced that their next event will feature coverage of Tiger and Tiger’s new ...

Take a look at any of Apple's promotional material for Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and you'll find that a feature that consistently gets a top-billing is Automator. However, I suspect that, if you could ...

I need an Automator script that converts PowerPoint files into PDF documents. Automator has no such built-in action. And I don't know AppleScript. I need an AppleScript that can tell the PowerPoint ...

AppleScripts are great tools for increasing your daily productivity. They're even better when they can be set to run unattended, at night, on weekends or during downtime. In Lion, iCal included a ...

I'm not sure exactly when or why this happened, but the new rage in scripting these days seems to be finding ways to get around using AppleScript. As you may recall, O'Reilly offered a great guide on ...