The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

Editor’s Note: The following article is an excerpt from Take Control of Customizing Tiger, a $5 electronic book available for download from TidBits Electronic Publishing. In a May 2005 excerpt from ...

Apple has a long history of making the automation of repetitive tasks easier on the rest of us. Beginning with HyperCard and AppleScript, and now with Automator, Apple has created custom programs to ...

Take a look at any of Apple's promotional material for Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and you'll find that a feature that consistently gets a top-billing is Automator. However, I suspect that, if you could ...

With every Mac sold comes a powerful little app called Automator. Here are some of our favorite Automator workflows that highlight exactly how powerful this tool is. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

I always thought that Automator was a great idea, but I was a little bit disappointed at first, because applications with a decent set of Automator actions were few and far between. I forgot about it ...

Is there a task on your Mac that you repeat often, maybe daily or even several times per day? You can set up a Quick Action to automate a task with the click of a button. Some are already ...

All through Automator, Dropbox and Folder Actions. Clever, powerful and simple. The Pixelmator team has announced that they’ll release a major update for their image editing application on July 13.

On Moutain Lion. Okay, I've been looking online but can't quite find what I'm looking for. I want to create a folder action that scans my download folder every time a file is added, and if the file is ...