“Never do anything twice” is an old programming maxim. And yet, faced with a computer capable of powerful automation, folks choose to instead manually repeat tasks. Programming is hard, after all, and it takes a while to learn. But you don’t need to be some kind of crack coder to automate a few things. With […]
Getting Started with Automator on Your Mac
MacOS’s Automator is a little-known but highly useful piece of bundled software. Designed to bring software automation to non-programmers, Automator workflows use a simple grammar that will be familiar to any user of IFTTT. By adopting an “if this, then that” approach to managing complex tasks, it makes it easier for non-expert users to set […]
How to Rename Files With Automator
Automator is an application bundled with OS X for quite a few versions now, but it is often misunderstood and used even less. At its core, Automator is a basic scripting application that allows you to stack those scripts together with drag-and-drop simplicity, giving you a powerful tool to fight repetition and busy work; getting […]
How to customize the OS X Right Click Menu Using Automator
Computers are here to do our bidding. When we have boring, repetitive tasks the best possible way to get them done is to get a computer to do them. OS X knows this, which is why there are some awesome tools included in the operating system to give you the ability to automate these tasks […]
