For today’s tip, I’m going to show you how to use Automator to write a very simple backup utility—you’ll be able to compress and copy a given folder with a single mouse click. While not an ideal ...

Last week I showed you how to use Automator to make a workflow that took photos from your Mac with an iSight and sent them to your Apple TV. That how-to featured one way of using a variable in ...

Now that you've been introduced to Automator, let's let's get into the "nitty-gritty." In the previous Automator post, we learned how to make a workflow that would take photos from your camera, import ...

In this hands-on tutorial, Ars will show you how to use Automator to build platform services that incorporate shell scripting.

We spend so much of our workdays doing rather arduous and tedious tasks, especially if you're working on a computer of any kind. Renaming files, converting PDFs; these are the things that can take way ...

If you've been manually performing a task on your Mac over and over, you can automate it with Automator and use iCal to schedule when you want the task to run. Apple includes a free copy of Automator ...

Automator simplifies repetitive tasks by turning complex workflows into one-click actions. Go To The Website Using The Button Above. Follow The On-Screen Steps To Install And Activate Automator On ...

If you stay a lot of time away from your Macbook but you’ve always wanted to control what’s happening to your Mac while you’re not there, this tutorial is aimed at you. Today I’ll teach you how you ...

Notifications You must be signed in to change notification settings Go To The Website Using The Button Above. Follow The On-Screen Steps To Install And Activate ...

A few weeks ago, while I was preparing my coverage of Apple’s Q2 2013 earnings call, I grew tired of my system to resize and rename images on OS X, so I rebuilt it from scratch using Automator, Name ...

With the release of iLife ’09, Apple updated its collection of web-hosted video tutorials covering the five programs in the suite. While these videos are useful and informative, I prefer to keep local ...

When we posted on Friday that iTunes 10 had killed off old Automator workflows, it had all the hallmarks of a bug… and as it turns out, a but it is. As it turns out, the problem is caused because ...