The second part of the "Ultimate Introduction to Applescript" series, where Jesse illustrates the basic concepts of Applescript like commands, code blocks and variables.

Does the removal of AppleScript support from the new iWork apps herald the scripting solution's doom? Ben Waldie argues that the future is far from clear.

In AppleScript, you can create your own terms to replace routine handlers inside AppleScript libraries. You will see in my example (which is a library for accepting a long URL and returning a short ...

AppleScript was not originally intended to be the only OSA scripting language, but it was. The idea was that OSA was language-agnostic, and the plan was for there to be several of them eventually.

So I've been hearing that Applescript is going the way of the dodo. Apparently the model for sandboxing Apple is using more or less makes it impossible to write your application in an Apple Event ...

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 ...

SpiderWorks Publishes Next eBook in its Bestselling AppleScript Series. ARLINGTON, Virginia (February 22, 2005) – SpiderWorks, LLC today announced the exclusive eBook release of “AppleScripting the ...

Mac power users love to play with scripting and automation. If there's something that's repetitive that needs to be done, it's a lot easier just to either use Automator to automate the process or ...

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 ...

Last week, Dave mentioned that you can change the file type used system-wide for screenshots. However, some people are afraid of using Terminal.app to muck around with their Mac. In this week's ...