Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

AppleScript is one of those technologies that has amazing potential, but seems to be “not quite there yet” in many ways. The basic problem is that supporting AppleScript is up to the application’s ...

In a survey, Adobe asks its developers about scripting support in Creative Suite. But it sure looks as if coders are being asked to choose between AppleScript and something else. A note posted Friday ...

An effort to reverse-engineer malicious AppleScript has led to the creation of a tool to analyze run-only malware targeting the Mac operating system, undermining a common attacker approach to ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

Before you can build your first AppleScript you need to know some basics: what a script-able application is and how to use the Script Editor. Script-able Applications Basically, script-able ...

Why, when people were trying to get me to switch from Windows to a Mac, did no one tell me about AppleScript? Sure, a stable OS with Unix shell access and a sophisticated UI are nice. But a scripting ...

As The Omni Group keeps working on OmniFocus 2 for Mac and Apple continues seeding new betas of iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks to developers, I have been reconsidering Reminders’ simplicity and enjoying the ...

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter. This command will allow you to open a specific location (either on your ...