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

AppleScript is hugely powerful, and not nearly as difficult to learn as you might think. If this very brief introduction has whetted your appetite, fire up AppleScript Editor, ...

AppleScript recording in the Finder, for example, was completely broken in OS X 10.0 and wasn’t fixed until 10.3. When Apple migrated from QuickTime 7 to QuickTime X, ...

How to Use AppleScript to Launch Programs. 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.

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.

AppleScript Libraries. AppleScript Libraries are the most interesting addition to Mavericks in my opinion. They allow users to create reusable and modular AppleScripts. As a general overview, you can ...

Use an Applescript service. Another approach for previewing changes to an HTML file directly from within TextWrangler is to use an AppleScript for parsing its filepath and then loading it in ...

What exactly is AppleScript?My guess is that it's some scripting utility (duh) but what kind of usage does it warrant? Is it only for developers who know ...

In this week's AppleScript article, I am going to show you how to take screenshots and change their file type using an AppleScript.The AppleScriptproperty N : 0set N to N + 1set picPath to ((POSIX ...

Clark: Yes, I am using the newest Notes in El Capitan. The answer turns out to be sandboxing. For the attachment to be properly added to a note via AppleScript, it must be located in ...

You can save an AppleScript as an actual script file by going to File > Save; and choose "Script" from the file format drop-down box. When you save your script as the ".scpt" file, ...

Here is a fun approach for automatically changing Safari's downloads folder to an external drive that uses AppleScript. If you like scripting on a Mac then this may be for you.