Tag: AUTOMATOR

Haven't gotten around to using Automator for all of your mundane, joyless, repetitive tasks? Need to rename a large number of files with a large amount of hurry? BatchRename'em is the Mac utility for you. As much as we cringe when an application uses "'em" in its name, BatchRename'em makes up for it with its simple effect. The application allows you to batch rename files and folders in a number ...

iCal is a great calendaring app, but if you're a heavy user, you'll sympathize with us when we say it drives us nuts. Really, the most troublesome part of using iCal is adding events. Lots of unnecessary clicks and options that you can hide and show combine to slow you down when you're creating an event. Something that should take ten seconds takes forty. So we went in search of something to ...

Tech columnist and author David Pogue has released a short podcast (4 MB) covering tips and techniques for using Mac OSX Tiger's Automator application to - you guessed it - automate such tasks as backups, zipping up applications (say for email or ftp transfer) and even setting alarms for automation processes. It's pretty interesting and touches on the raw drag-and-drop-programming muscle that ...