More Mac 101, tips and tricks for novice (and expert) Mac users. Have you every tried to copy and paste text from a PDF into a word processor document like Pages or Microsoft Word? Most of the ...

The Automator app on Mac can be used to automate a wide variety of tasks to avoid mundane routine and save some time. For instance, you can use it to create a service to perform actions like rename ...

Video walkthrough Step 6: Automator will prompt you to add an add a Copy Finder Items action to preserve original files in a separate folder.

Using Automator Prior to the Yosemite (Mac OS 10.10) update, you had to use a tool like Automator to create a workflow and set a series of rules each time you wanted to rename files.

Renaming files in OS X is as easy as selecting them and pressing Return; however, if you regularly rename many files then you might benefit from setting up a rename workflow in Automator.

Non Stop Mac has posted a blog entry outlining how to use Apple’s Automator utility to backup local files to the Backpack Web service. “Backpack is a powerful web service that offers its users a great ...

How to Schedule Automator Tasks in Mac OS X. 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 ...

An earlier hint about applying Finder labels from the keyboard suffered from some annoying limitations. Fortunately there's a better solution to the same problem, and it involves Automator.