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Apple Automator with AppleScript Bible
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, Nov 2009, Pages: 576
One-stop reference helps you get the most out of AppleScript and Automator
One of the handiest ways to streamline your workload is to automate some of your most routine computer tasks. Mac users are lucky in that they have AppleScript and Automator automation tools built right in. This comprehensive guide shows you how to tap both these useful Mac features for Mac OS X and regularly perform such tasks as extracting unread e-mails from your Mail, scheduling workflows, and manually recording actions to create new automated routines.
Brings you up to speed on Apple's built-in automation tools for Mac OS X, including a more thorough look at Automator than in many books, and shows you how you can automate many of your most repetitive or error-prone tasks
Explains how to automate aspects of some of your favorite Mac features, such as iCal, Mail, iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD
Covers how to manipulate files and folders; work with PDFs, emails, and Web pages; schedule workflows; set up watch folders; create and use variables; manually record actions; and create AppleScripts that further automate functions
The instruction in this detailed guide will help you increase your productivity using Automator and AppleScript.
Other titles out on the market lump Automator into discussions of AppleScript and Xcode, giving Automator very little attention it deserves. Apple Automator with AppleScript Bible provides the right amount of attention to Automator, but at the same time provides AppleScript essentials for the more advanced readers. The Apple Automator with AppleScript Bible starts by introducing automation in brief as well as Mac OS X Automator and AppleScript concepts. The reader will quickly learn how to use the interface, as well as learn some key terms (such as actions, workflows, variables, watched folders, and the like). As soon as some fundamentals are in place, the reader will ramp up and learn such things as how to manipulate files and folders, working with PDFs, emails and web pages, scheduling workflows and setting up watch folders, creating and using variables, manually record actions, create AppleScript tools that further automate functions and more.
Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.
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