In 1992 Apple Computer began incorporating AppleScript as part of System 7.1, a version of the Classic Macintosh Operating System that predated Mac OS X. This plain-speech scripting language enables ...

Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

AppleScript is one of those technologies that has amazing potential, but seems to be “not quite there yet” in many ways. The basic problem is that supporting AppleScript is up to the application’s ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

The latest update to Pixelmator Pro introduces support for AppleScript, opening up a range of automation tasks for the application. AppleScript is an Apple-developed scripting language for macOS that ...

If you're confused by AppleScript, wish you could use something else to make OS X applications jump through hoops, or just aren't a fan of it for whatever reason (and I can think of a few), don't ...

We’ve written before at ProfHacker about the power of scripting tasks: Letting your computer take over some of the repetitive things that each of us do regularly daily hourly. Recently, for example, ...

The Script Debugger software for the Mac served a niche – but apparently did so very successfully for decades. The tool for development with AppleScript will be discontinued in mid-2025, as the ...

An effort to reverse-engineer malicious AppleScript has led to the creation of a tool to analyze run-only malware targeting the Mac operating system, undermining a common attacker approach to ...

NOTE: The URL for the below download was broken over the weekend and has now been corrected. Originally published Friday, June 24th. Over the past few days we've been covering a workaround that ...