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 ...

Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, Script Debugger fails to compile large scripts. When attempting to compile scripts over 3000 lines, the program will return an "out of memory ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple has posted a set of AppleScripts for use with iTunes 2.0.3. In addition to the scripts themselves, the page explains how to reveal a Script menu in the iTunes application menu bar to access both ...

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 ...

Prior to Office 2008, you could automate repetitive tasks and add entirely new features in Microsoft Word by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros. Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support ...

24U s.r.o. has updated its 24U Appearance OSAX — an AppleScript scripting addition. It gives AppleScript features for communicating with users. It will let you pop-up alerts, display dialogs, open ...