Automator is the often-overlooked Mac OS X software that is hiding away in your Applications folder. Many people just glance over this unassuming robotic icon, unaware of the power it holds. Have you ...

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 ...

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 recently switched to Mac OS X as my primary desktop operating system after spending over a decade on Linux. Although Apple’s operating system supplies practically all of the command line tools I ...

Automator's the perfect tool for streamlining some of the repetitive things you do on a daily basis. One thing it's great at is doing basic manipulation to lots of image files. Need to resize a bunch ...

Much as we depend on text, a lot of us deal with images, audio files, and movies as part of our workaday world. And it’s not unusual that when working with such files you need to perform a minor tweak ...

After updating iTunes to version 10, you may find the only available workflows in the list are the ones in bold. Any existing workflow containing the other actions will not work. It is odd that some ...

We’ve covered automation apps for iOS in the past, and iOS 8 adds a lot of potential for what’s possible thanks to extensions for performing actions and sharing data from anywhere in the system. Today ...

Automator for Mac OSX is a scripting solution that lets you create simple actions, then bundle them into workflows to automate repetitive tasks. Perhaps the best part is that once you've got a ...

For example, you could build a workflow that allows you to instantly resize, rename, and organize thousands of image files by clicking a single icon. You have the power to create a shortcut to perform ...

I'm looking into Automator to extract data from a webtable in Safari. I've tried looking up scripts and using automator, but it's not as easy as it looks for a complete noob like myself. I've tried ...