Mac Hacks: 17 AppleScripts To Make Your Life Easier

If you are an experienced professional, chances are you have a good set of tools and a work process that you repeat on a daily basis to handle your work. That’s good; it’s how you become more productive, and become an expert. But with repetitive processes come repetitive mechanical work. Whether it’s opening a file in Photoshop to change the format or adding an iCal to-do item based on an email you received, these little tasks can be streamlined. That’s the purpose of AppleScripts.

AppleScript is a scripting language developed by Apple to help people automate their work processes on the Mac operating system. It accomplishes this by exposing every element of the system’s applications as an object in an extremely simple, English-like language. AppleScript is to the Mac OS as JavaScript is to browsers.

Quite a few AppleScripts are available on the Web, ready for you to use, so you don’t even need to look at their code. This article presents you with 17 of the most useful ones.
If you’re interested in learning this language, here are some good resources to get started:

• Official AppleScript Website
  Apple’s page on AppleScript.
• AppleScript Language Guide
  Apple’s in-depth guide to AppleScript.
• MacScripter
  The greatest AppleScript forum.
• Learning AppleScript
  Macworld’s article on the fundamentals of writing AppleScripts.
• AppleScript Users
  AppleScript Mailing List.

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