Back in November, I wrote about the growing concern in the Mac community that Apple might be abandoning AppleScript. The occasion was the virtual removal of AppleScript support from the iWork apps ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

I had fully automated video uploads to YouTube using an AI agent, but one day the system suddenly stopped.The cause was a ...

Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

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 ...

Last time, I used AppleScript and cliclick to launch BlueStacks Air and return the window to a fixed position.Once you can do ...

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 ...

I used applescript to ask the user, using the choose folder dialog box, what folder is to be made into a html page. It looks thru the pdfs and creates the html links and adds contact information and ...

Applescript has effectively been in an unmanaged and depreciated state (at time of writing) for the last ten years. So add on a lot of OS security over the years, with a language that gets no love and ...

An effort to reverse-engineer malicious AppleScript has led to the creation of a tool to analyze run-only malware targeting the Mac operating system, undermining a common attacker approach to ...

Over the past few days we’ve been covering a workaround that involves deleting the com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist to alleviate some performance problems in Safari. MacFixIt readers John ...