OS X Yosemite All-in-One For Dummies

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?

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