AppleScript Editor has a built-in AE dictionary viewer. To access it, run Script Editor, then select File->Open Dictionary. macOS already knows which apps on your Mac publish script dictionaries ...

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, the app’s AppleScript ...

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 ...

iCloud Sync Before we dive into the technical changes in AppleScript, let’s talk about some of the higher level additions. AppleScript and Automator were updated with iCloud file syncing. Much like ...

While AppleScript and Automator applications and droplets can’t be signed directly, XIP archives can be.

In AppleScript, you just need to include the same format as a text string. Combined with a simple macro that executes an AppleScript after a keyboard shortcut has been pressed, I can now hit ⌘R – as I ...

The AppleScript also adds the MAC address to the filename, so that the server will know from which recording station the file came. Finally, it moves the file into the upload folder.

You can also use AppleScript for system events such as: shut down, sleep, restart, etc. This is how you format these commands: tell application "Finder" to shut down tell application "Finder" to sleep ...

When I shared an AppleScript last week which created randomized signatures using TextExpander, I promised to revisit it when the iheartquotes.com API started working again. It's working right now ...

As Macworld notes, Numbers has gained significant AppleScript support, almost fully backwards compatible with previously created scripts for Numbers 2009. The iWork team has also added a number of ...

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 ...