One cool thing you can do in the Finder is set any window to view as large, 512X512 icons. You can do this by clicking on the icon button in the top left of any Finder window, then dragging the ...

Whether I'm preparing for a demo or writing an article, blog post, book, or technical documentation, I often find myself performing the same set of repetitive steps. I need to navigate into an app's ...

Got a quick question for all you applescript gurus once more.<P>I am working on the same director application that I was a while ago when I asked about changing the mouse speed with applescript. I got ...

A cluttered desktop is not only distracting, but it can slow down your Mac. If you want to temporarily hide your Mac's desktop icons, you can do so with a simple AppleScript and Automator. We featured ...

This article is excerpted from The Mac OS X Tiger Book from Wiley Publishing (0-7645-7956-6); the book can be ordered from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Copyright ...

If memory serves, one of the bonuses trotted out for OSX when it came out was the icons and how they were better (bigger, more color depth, etc.) and that you could use regular image files (Gif, jpeg, ...

Mac OS offers AppleScript as a powerful automation tool you can use to share data among applications and turn complex file-management tasks into single-click programs. First implemented in 1992, when ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was adapted from AppleScript: The Missing Manual , by Adam Goldstein (2005; reprinted by permission of O’Reilly Media). AppleScript has been around since the days of System ...

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 ...