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 ...

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!

In 1992 Apple Computer began incorporating AppleScript as part of System 7.1, a version of the Classic Macintosh Operating System that predated Mac OS X. This plain-speech scripting language enables ...

Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

I used applescript to ask the user, using the choose folder dialog box, what folder is to be made into a html page. It looks thru the pdfs and creates the html links and adds contact information and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past few days we’ve been covering a workaround that involves deleting the com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist to alleviate some performance problems in Safari. MacFixIt readers John ...

If you're a dual booter and you want a quick and easy way to reboot from OS X into Windows, this AppleScript coupled with the magic of Quicksilver will do so with just a few keystrokes. While you ...

If you're confused by AppleScript, wish you could use something else to make OS X applications jump through hoops, or just aren't a fan of it for whatever reason (and I can think of a few), don't ...