It’s ironic that, in years past, when Apple was planning its next generation operating system (Copland, Rhapsody, and the others that preceded Mac OS X), there was talk of scrapping AppleScript and ...

We’ve written before at ProfHacker about the power of scripting tasks: Letting your computer take over some of the repetitive things that each of us do regularly daily hourly. Recently, for example, ...

In a survey, Adobe asks its developers about scripting support in Creative Suite. But it sure looks as if coders are being asked to choose between AppleScript and something else. A note posted Friday ...

If you’ve kicked around with a Mac for more than a few years and you read Macworld, you almost certainly have an AppleScript or seven that you rely on for certain custom features. I wrote a very ...

Before you can build your first AppleScript you need to know some basics: what a script-able application is and how to use the Script Editor. Script-able Applications Basically, script-able ...

I've got a potential freelance gig that sounds boring and repetitive, which means there's lots of room for automation. It's for a real estate broker. She needs someone to go through listings and post ...

There is not always “an app for that.” There are many complex and repetitive tasks we perform in the academic world which depend on technology but which cannot be carried out by a single software ...

In the past months, a few ways to enable AppleScript to display user notifications in Mountain Lion have surfaced online. Our own Don Southard wrote a test app using AppleScriptObjC; Ben Waldie put ...

Applescript, that amazing resource many Mac users ignore because they think it’s too complex. Guys, Applescript is an amazing tool to get things done automatically, though I recognize many of you just ...

I am trying to schedule a refresh of a YouTube Stream Now stream, and the only way I've figured to do it is via reloading a particular YouTube URL*. I have an always-on Mac mini, so I wrote an ...