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 ...

Commands in AppleScript are, as far as possible, plain English, making them relatively easy to read and write. There are, however, rules to be adhered to, otherwise your script won’t compile.

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 ...

I just got hung up writing an AppleScript that accessed a single-item list, and it took me forever to translate “theList [0]” into AppleScript’s “item 1 of theList”.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Congratulations, you've just made your first AppleScript application! [Update:] One of our readers, Nik, reminded me that when you save an AppleScript as an "Application" only, it will NOT be ...

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.

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 ...

I checked the new Notes app and it actually has a better Applescript dictionary than I remembered. So I was a bit mistaken in my initial off hand comments.

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.