It’s ironic that, in years past, when Apple was planning its next generation operating system (Copland, Rhapsody, and the others that preceded Mac OS X), there was talk of scrapping AppleScript and ...

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, ...

Regarding the ability to create a double-clickable Terminal script (see previous item), Scott Lahteine notes that: AppleScript Menu can do more than just run AppleScripts. It allows you to run Perl ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

It’s that time again. A new version of OS X is out, and with it come the recurring cries of AppleScript’s demise. But let’s try to remain calm: Recent Internet rumors that the sky is falling may be ...