Have you ever been away from your Mac and wanted to shut down, restart, or needed to open an application remotely, but didn't have access to anything except your iPhone? Well, I am going to show you ...

I hate those pop-ups that hijack Safari even when I've enabled Settings > Security > Block Pop-up windows. Sure, I've edited my hosts file with Someonewhocare's updates to avoid them in the first ...

</pre><BR><BR>All I want it to do is open a new Terminal window and do an 'ls'. What it actually does is open a new terminal window (and just leaves me at a prompt).<BR><BR>My eventual goal is to be ...

OS X Mountain Lion's new Do Not Disturb feature for Notification Center is great for shutting down notifications for a set amount of time, but unfortunately you can't set it to a schedule. Apple blog ...

If you ever want to pull your location data off your Mac and drop it into an iMessage, note, or journal entry, it's kind of a pain to find. However, with a little AppleScript magic, you can grab your ...

AppleScript is one of those technologies that has amazing potential, but seems to be “not quite there yet” in many ways. The basic problem is that supporting AppleScript is up to the application’s ...

I would like to do the following with Excel via Applescript:<BR><BR>1. Open a workbook.<BR>2. Save the workbook in comma separated values format.<BR>3. Close the workbook.<BR><BR>Does anyone know how ...

Reader Michael Rountree offers up this head-scratcher: As a relatively new user of Mac OS 10.3.8 and Mail 1.3.9, I am perplexed by a feature which almost seems like it is built into the email client, ...

If you're running a machine with external drives, it's possible that they won't be mounted when iTunes starts looking for data. AppleInsider explains how to get around this, with a simple AppleScript.

Applescript, that amazing resource many Mac users ignore because they think it’s too complex. Guys, Applescript is an amazing tool to get things done automatically, though I recognize many of you just ...