I'm trying to extract/get the annotations from a QuickTime file using AppleScript and I'm having a heck of a time doing so. tell application "QuickTime Player 7" set the_movie to document 1 tell ...

When I learned to program, programs had line numbers. You’d type GOTO 10 or GOSUB 5000 and that would control the flow of your program. When I first saw a programming language that didn’t have line ...

We’ve written before at ProfHacker about the power of scripting tasks: Letting your computer take over some of the repetitive things that each of us do regularly daily hourly. Recently, for example, ...

Does anyone have any insight into how to create a note in Notes.app under El Capitan and add an attached file? I have found online that supposedly, Notes interprets a ...

This AppleScript will launch Google Chrome if it is not already running, and will not overwrite any existing tabs in Google Chrome. To use this AppleScript, you will need to download it from Github.

I had a moment of self-doubt the other morning: am I man or automaton? The question came up when I fired up my office computer and started manually launching one set of programs and changing the ...

Last week, Dave mentioned that you can change the file type used system-wide for screenshots. However, some people are afraid of using Terminal.app to muck around with their Mac. In this week's ...