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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What Is AppleScript? AppleScript is a language used to automate the actions of Mac OS and many of its applications. Whether a task is as simple as copying a file or as complex as building a ...

Mail has extensive AppleScript support, which makes it fairly simple to access the components of a message. The first step is to set the variable _msg to the selected message in Mail. Next, ...

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.

AppleScript and Automator now includes a Display Notification command that you can use to send yourself notifications from your own scripts.

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 ...

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.