I just got hung up writing an AppleScript that accessed a single-item list, and it took me forever to translate “theList [0]” into AppleScript’s “item 1 of theList”.

Congratulations, you've just made your first AppleScript application! [Update:] One of our readers, Nik, reminded me that when you save an AppleScript as an "Application" only, it will NOT be ...

iCloud Sync Before we dive into the technical changes in AppleScript, let’s talk about some of the higher level additions. AppleScript and Automator were updated with iCloud file syncing. Much like ...

Most Mac users, especially those coming from the Windows camp, don't realize that Mac OS X comes with AppleScript, a free, easy-to-use, "natural language," scripting language. To boost the ...

Use an Applescript service. Another approach for previewing changes to an HTML file directly from within TextWrangler is to use an AppleScript for parsing its filepath and then loading it in ...

I used applescript to ask the user, using the choose folder dialog box, what folder is to be made into a html page. It looks thru the pdfs and creates the html links and adds contact information ...

I checked the new Notes app and it actually has a better Applescript dictionary than I remembered. So I was a bit mistaken in my initial off hand comments.

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 ...

In this week's AppleScript article, I am going to show you how to take screenshots and change their file type using an AppleScript.The AppleScriptproperty N : 0set N to N + 1set picPath to ...

Losing AppleScript and automation features altogether would be a horrific loss for the Mac. However, I don’t think that’s going to be the case. Like Jason Snell, I believe today’s Apple finds this ...

At a developer conference in Chicago, several Mac developers suggested that AppleScript should be replaced by a JavaScript-based scripting language. Jason Snell's not convinced.

Here is a fun approach for automatically changing Safari's downloads folder to an external drive that uses AppleScript. If you like scripting on a Mac then this may be for you.