Since Apple is introducing Shortcuts to macOS Monterey in the fall, it may be worth backing up all of your Automator workflows before it lands. Here's how to make a copy of your automations. Shortcuts ...

Automator is a great tool for automating basic tasks on your Mac, no scripting or programming required. By dragging prebuilt actions together, you can quickly and easily create countless workflows to ...

April 22, 2014 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google A cluttered desktop is not only distracting, but it can slow down your Mac. If you want to temporarily hide your ...

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 ...

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 ...

Matthew Russell, over at MacDevCenter they've published a great introduction/overview to Automator, Apple's "personal automation assistant" that comes with OSX Tiger. Along with Dashboard and ...

With the aid of a short Automator workflow, AppleScript can have you connected to your VPN with a single keystroke. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...

Guys, I'm going to impose a bit. This is a brain-dead simple request, but I'm brain-dead and can't figure it out (must be the nights of no sleep thanks to the baby).<BR><BR>I have an automator action ...