Chapter 3: AppleScript Just Plain Rocks
In This Chapter
Simplifying your life with AppleScript
Letting AppleScript create scripts for you
Writing scripts on your own
Using Automator to create your own applications
Searching for AppleScript help elsewhere
Using a Macintosh is supposed to make your life easier — and in many ways, it does. But there’s a limit to how much your Mac can do by itself, right? After all, you still have to move the mouse, press keys on the keyboard, and read information on the screen to get things done . . . or do you? Why not let your computer do the dull chores — say, renaming a thousand digital photographs from your family vacation and organizing them into folders based on the subject of each photo — for you? Although most people are familiar with controlling their Macs with the mouse and keyboard, few realize that they can operate their machines without touching a key or a mouse button — or even glancing at the screen.
What’s So Great about AppleScript? ...
