If you weren’t around yesterday, I wrote about a brilliant little menubar utility for the Mac called Take Five, which lets you pause and automatically resume iTunes playback after X minutes. If you ...

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 ...

Back in December, I wrote about Microsoft’s decision to drop support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) from the next version of Office. I had, and still have, many concerns about the switch. The ...

As you're probably well aware by now, the highly-anticipated Office 2008 is coming with a lot of new features, but it's also shedding a few features along the way. One of the big losses, especially ...

The latest update to Pixelmator Pro introduces support for AppleScript, opening up a range of automation tasks for the application. AppleScript is an Apple-developed scripting language for macOS that ...

Applescript is one of those Mac OS features a few people master and many ignore. Truth be told, Apple has never published an “official” get-started guide to Applescript, so I understand all those ...

Ben Waldie, president of the Philadelphia Area AppleScript Users Group, is in the middle of a series of appearances at Macintosh User Groups (MUGs) in the Northeast U.S. to inform people about ...

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter. This command will allow you to open a specific location (either on your ...

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 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 ...