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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Apple’s built-in automation tool, Automator (in /Applications), is capable of performing wondrous feats, yet far too many people ignore it—believing their work wouldn’t benefit from automation or that ...

Even if you're not a programmer, you can easily create tiny, time-saving applications that breeze through repetitive tasks—renaming large groups of files, executing terminal commands, and much ...

Automator is an OS X utility that allows you to construct small applications, or "workflows," that automate repetitive tasks for you. For advanced users, writing scripts to use in Automator can save a ...

There’s more to major OS X updates than introducing entirely new features such as Time Machine. Apple also takes the opportunity to freshen up existing applications, adding new capabilities or ...