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 ...

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 ...

We’ve written before at ProfHacker about the power of scripting tasks: Letting your computer take over some of the repetitive things that each of us do regularly daily hourly. Recently, for example, ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

In the past months, a few ways to enable AppleScript to display user notifications in Mountain Lion have surfaced online. Our own Don Southard wrote a test app using AppleScriptObjC; Ben Waldie put ...

Prior to Office 2008, you could automate repetitive tasks and add entirely new features in Microsoft Word by using Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros. Unfortunately, Word 2008 doesn’t support ...

Browsed this forum for some time but could not find anything to help my problem. Well, basically I want to extract Urls from a list and output them into a new list containing only URL. You could do ...

24U s.r.o. has updated its 24U Appearance OSAX — an AppleScript scripting addition. It gives AppleScript features for communicating with users. It will let you pop-up alerts, display dialogs, open ...

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 ...

The Script Debugger software for the Mac served a niche – but apparently did so very successfully for decades. The tool for development with AppleScript will be discontinued in mid-2025, as the ...