One of Automator's promising features is the "Watch me do" capability to record user actions and play them back. Unfortunately, while this is a good idea, the implementation is very poor and many ...

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 ...

Hey Mac Ach. I've been using Wine (installed from Homebrew) to run a (stupid & basic) Windows app on my Mac for a while now (the Windows app itself is inconsequential, let's call it pants.exe just for ...

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 ...

Automator is one of the easiest ways to automate tasks on your Mac, and the ability to record mouse actions makes it so just about anyone can create their own workflows within seconds. Wildfire is a ...

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 ...

Earlier this week, we shared a hint about applying Finder labels from the keyboard. But that hint, which focused on adding labels to the Finder’s toolbar, suffered from a few annoying limitations. One ...