The second part of the "Ultimate Introduction to Applescript" series, where Jesse illustrates the basic concepts of Applescript like commands, code blocks and variables.

Does the removal of AppleScript support from the new iWork apps herald the scripting solution's doom? Ben Waldie argues that the future is far from clear.

In AppleScript, you can create your own terms to replace routine handlers inside AppleScript libraries. You will see in my example (which is a library for accepting a long URL and returning a short ...

AppleScript was not originally intended to be the only OSA scripting language, but it was. The idea was that OSA was language-agnostic, and the plan was for there to be several of them eventually.

Before you can build your first AppleScript you need to know some basics: what a script-able application is and how to use the Script Editor.Script-able ApplicationsBasically, script-able ...

If you weren’t around yesterday, I wrote about a brilliant little menubar utility for the Mac called Take Five, which lets you pause and automatically resume iTunes playback after X minutes. If ...

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter.Location commandThis command will allow you to open a specific ...

The AppleScript in Office 2004 is quite good, too, so if you're dying to write AppleScript macros you can probably get a head start.

AppleScript enables automation on the Mac – The Script Debugger software professionalized development with it. But this year is the end.

While AppleScript support is generally thought to be the purview of power users and can generally be excused in first-run applications, the lack of AppleScript in (at least) Numbers has puzzled ...