Whether you prefer OS X or Windows, you've probably heard and likely believe that OS X is a "closed" system that won't let you customize it in the way you can customize Windows, and that real ...

Apple’s built-in automation tool, Automator (in /Applications), is capable of performing wondrous feats, yet far too many people ignore it—believing their work wouldn’t benefit from automation or that ...

Travel has a way of magnifying even the smallest mistakes. Forget that little VGA adapter, and your entire presentation could be sunk. Forget that extra battery, and your laptop could poop out at the ...

Automator's great for streamlining time consuming and repetitive tasks on your Mac. It's easy. Just launch it, find a few actions, and string them together to form a workflow. Then, run your workflow ...

I offer a new Automator workflow each and every month. You can check out all our Automator work on our . And if you’re looking for additional information outside of this Macworld, check out the . To ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Automators interface is simple to understand. Select an ...

The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

Take a look at any of Apple's promotional material for Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and you'll find that a feature that consistently gets a top-billing is Automator. However, I suspect that, if you could ...

Longtime Macintosh vendor Bare Bones Software Inc. on Thursday announced support for the new Mac OS X “Tiger” with the release of BBEdit 8.2. The update to the popular text- and code-editing ...

I have an automator workflow (actually, it's saved as an app) that has worked for me for several years, but now has stopped working under Sierra. It's a very simple app that is used to combine ...