If you’ve kicked around with a Mac for more than a few years and you read Macworld, you almost certainly have an AppleScript or seven that you rely on for certain custom features. I wrote a very ...

Apple on Friday issued a preview release of Script Editor, the authoring application for the company’s AppleScript language. Script editor 2.0 includes many enhancements and features for new scripters ...

If you're confused by AppleScript, wish you could use something else to make OS X applications jump through hoops, or just aren't a fan of it for whatever reason (and I can think of a few), don't ...

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 ...

If you edit HTML code on your Mac, you might find that Apple's text-handling programs like TextEdit may not suffice, especially since as a basic text editor it does not provide syntax-aware coloring, ...

We've all been there before. You've prepared a Keynote presentation on the Internet phenomenon of cat videos for your local Mac user group. You've finished editing your slides. You've added presenter ...

We share a lot of scripts with you Mac junkies here at Lifehacker, which requires a lot of copying and pasting. By checking one box in System Preferences, however, you can send that code to ...

Ever wanted to quit every single open application? Perhaps you want to free up memory for the launch of another app. Here’s one way of doing it quickly and cleanly. You can create an app using ...

AppleScript has been around for nearly 20 years, and although in that time it has doubtless succeeded in inviting many non-programmers to try their hands at writing scripts to automate applications, ...

As an OmniFocus for Mac user, it's important that I can quickly create tasks at any time, in any app. OmniFocus makes this pretty easy, by providing integration with OS X Mail, a keyboard shortcut for ...