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 ...

The latest version of Automator (in OS X 10.5 Leopard) has several handy new features. Among the most useful: variables and looping. Unfortunately, unless you’re an experienced scripter, they’re also ...

If you've been manually performing a task on your Mac over and over, you can automate it with Automator and use iCal to schedule when you want the task to run. Apple includes a free copy of Automator ...

Much as we all enjoy typing the kind of text snippets that make up our daily reminders and thoughts, it can be easier and more effective to record a voice memo. Sure, you can do that with an iPhone or ...

Using Automator, it’s possible to archive iMessages on your Mac. Apple is bringing iCloud backup to iMessages with iOS 11 and macOS Sierra. Not everyone is comfortable backing up to iCloud though, so ...