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12.09.09 - Automator for Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: Working with Actions.
To do anything truly useful, you need to add actions to your workflow, and you need to configure those actions to do what you want. The techniques you learn in this chapter will apply to working with virtually any action within an Automator workflow. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.09.09 - Automator Services: Apply Filter to Selected Images.
If you’ve used Automator before, then you may know that it includes actions for performing basic image manipulation tasks, such as cropping and resizing. Today’s workflow uses one of these built-in actions to apply a filter to selected image files in the Mac OS X Finder. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.08.09 - Automator Services: Merge Selected Images as PDF.
Today's Automator Service workflow tip involves image files. This workflow will receive selected image files in the Finder, and merge them together to form a multi-page PDF document. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
12.07.09 - Automator Services: Read Summary of Selected Text.
Each day this week, I'll be providing tips for creating Service workflows with Automator in Mac OS X 10.6.x Snow Leopard. Today’s workflow will receive selected text in an application, summarize it as a single sentence, and speak the summary aloud for you to hear. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
Episode 27
Date: 11.25.2009
Duration: 00:10:57
Getting Started with Handlers in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to write AppleScripts more efficiently through the use of handlers. Learn how to modularize your scripts, making them more expandable, easier to update, and more..
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Episode 26
Date: 10.27.2009
Duration: 00:09:44
Building Automator Service Workflows in Snow Leopard
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to build Service workflows with Automator in Snow Leopard. Become more efficient by creating workflows that process files, folders, and text, and even ones that run AppleScripts!.
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Episode 25
Date: 09.29.2009
Duration: 00:07:59
Getting Started Providing Feedback in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to provide a basic level of feedback, such as dialog messages, audio alerts, and speech alerts in AppleScript. Providing feedback is essential to building user friendly scripts..
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Episode 24
Date: 09.03.2009
Duration: 00:07:52
Getting Started with Error Handling in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie discussing implementing basic error handling techniques in AppleScript. Learn how to catch errors in your scripts and handle them gracefully by taking different courses of action..
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Episode 23
Date: 07.22.2009
Duration: 00:09:14
Using Repeat Loops in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, which a focus on using repeat loops. Learn how to perform infinite and incremental repeat looping in your scripts..
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Episode 22
Date: 06.30.2009
Duration: 00:06:49
Adding Branching Logic to Your AppleScripts
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, which a focus on adding branching logic and decision making to scripts. Learn how to implement simple, compound, and nested if/then statements..
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