AppleScript is OS X’s naive scripting language and allows you to automate repetitive operations which involve one or more applications. Imagine the time you could save! And the boredom you can avoid!

Ben Waldie, president of the Philadelphia Area AppleScript Users Group, is in the middle of a series of appearances at Macintosh User Groups (MUGs) in the Northeast U.S. to inform people about ...

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 ...

Why, when people were trying to get me to switch from Windows to a Mac, did no one tell me about AppleScript? Sure, a stable OS with Unix shell access and a sophisticated UI are nice. But a scripting ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...