Last week I showed you how to use Automator to make a workflow that took photos from your Mac with an iSight and sent them to your Apple TV. That how-to featured one way of using a variable in ...

The latest version of Automator (in OS X 10.5 Leopard) has several handy new features. Among the most useful: variables and looping. Unfortunately, unless you’re an experienced scripter, they’re also ...

The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

My rabbit trail of the day: I have a not-small number of PDF's that I'd like to sort and file. The PDF's have customer name in them, which is what I want to sort on. The workflow(s) work exactly as ...

Whether you prefer OS X or Windows, you've probably heard and likely believe that OS X is a "closed" system that won't let you customize it in the way you can customize Windows, and that real ...