Mac OS offers AppleScript as a powerful automation tool you can use to share data among applications and turn complex file-management tasks into single-click programs. First implemented in 1992, when ...

Over the weekend, MacInTouch and Slashdot posted information regarding a shell script dubbed "opener" that, if installed with proper authentication on a Mac OS X system, can trigger several ...

We talk about iCal once in a while. Did you know that an iCal alarm can launch an AppleScript? A recent comment from reader Zach (and subsequent replies) made us think that this tip might be of use to ...

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 ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

To the average user, the two new security technologies coming to OS X this year—sandboxing and Gatekeeper—should be virtually invisible. But they could be all too visible to more advanced users, ...

June 24, 2011 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google Proximity is a simple micro-app for Mac OS X that monitors your Bluetooth connections so it can tell when a ...

I have for a long time had a problem where Home sharing would stop when accessing my content from my Apple TV 4K. Restarting the Music and TV apps on the Mac actually makes it work again. So I have ...

Clay Caviness, systems administrator on Google’s internal Macintosh Operations team, just announced on Google+ that the team will begin releasing a selection of scripts, tools, and utilities used ...

Microsoft is working on a new feature to enable Excel users on Windows and Mac to automate their repetitive tasks. The functionality is already available for the Microsoft Excel web client. Microsoft ...