Episode 30
Date: 02.23.2010
Duration: 00:10:34
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Creating Branching Automator Workflows with AppleScript
One of Automator's key limitations is its inability to perform branching. In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how AppleScript can be used to work around this limitation and create a branching Automator workflow.
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Episode 29
Date: 01.26.2010
Duration: 00:08:39
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Creating Scheduled AppleScripts
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie discusses how to create AppleScripts that run at scheduled intervals. Learn to write scripts that back up your music library at night and automatically reconnect to server volumes.
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Episode 28
Date: 12.29.2009
Duration: 00:07:49
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Creating Drop Scripts in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie discusses how to drop scripts in AppleScript. Learn how to write a simple image processing AppleScript application that processes dropped files and folders.
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Episode 27
Date: 11.25.2009
Duration: 00:10:57
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Getting Started with Handlers in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to write AppleScripts more efficiently through the use of handlers. Learn how to modularize your scripts, making them more expandable, easier to update, and more.
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Episode 26
Date: 10.27.2009
Duration: 00:09:44
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Building Automator Service Workflows in Snow Leopard
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to build Service workflows with Automator in Snow Leopard. Become more efficient by creating workflows that process files, folders, and text, and even ones that run AppleScripts!
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Episode 25
Date: 09.29.2009
Duration: 00:07:59
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Getting Started Providing Feedback in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to provide a basic level of feedback, such as dialog messages, audio alerts, and speech alerts in AppleScript. Providing feedback is essential to building user friendly scripts.
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Episode 24
Date: 09.03.2009
Duration: 00:07:52
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Getting Started with Error Handling in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie discussing implementing basic error handling techniques in AppleScript. Learn how to catch errors in your scripts and handle them gracefully by taking different courses of action.
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Episode 23
Date: 07.22.2009
Duration: 00:09:14
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Using Repeat Loops in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, which a focus on using repeat loops. Learn how to perform infinite and incremental repeat looping in your scripts.
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Episode 22
Date: 06.30.2009
Duration: 00:06:49
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Adding Branching Logic to Your AppleScripts
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, which a focus on adding branching logic and decision making to scripts. Learn how to implement simple, compound, and nested if/then statements.
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Episode 21
Date: 05.26.2009
Duration: 00:09:05
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Getting Started with Variables in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, with a focus on variables. Watch as Ben demonstrates how to use variables to store values from Address Book, and create a new message in Mail.
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Episode 20
Date: 04.28.2009
Duration: 00:09:22
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Getting Started Scripting Applications
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates techniques for getting started writing AppleScripts to control applications in Mac OS X. Learn how to display a Web page in Safari, start the visualizer in iTunes, and more.
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Episode 19
Date: 03.31.2009
Duration: 00:10:00
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Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 2: Classes and Properties
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing how to navigate application AppleScript dictionaries in Mac OS X. This episode focuses on understanding elements and attributes, also known as classes and properties.
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Episode 18
Date: 03.17.2009
Duration: 00:07:47
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Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 1: Commands
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie begins discussing AppleScripting applications in Mac OS X by exploring how to open and navigate application AppleScript dictionaries. Ben reviews both application commands and parameters.
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Episode 17
Date: 03.03.2009
Duration: 00:09:06
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Introducing AppleScript and Script Editor
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie provides an introduction to the primary AppleScript components in Mac OS X, including the AppleScript Utility, Folder Actions Setup application, example scripts, and Script Editor.
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Episode 16
Date: 02.17.2009
Duration: 00:08:48
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Extending Automator Workflows with Third-Party Actions
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to extend the power of Automator with third-party actions, allowing you to build Web photo galleries, a birthday calendar in iCal, a photo contacts sheet in InDesign, and more.
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Episode 15
Date: 02.03.2009
Duration: 00:08:39
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Creating a Looping Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to create a simple looping Automator workflow, using the 'Loop' action, to download current weather satellite images and use them as your Desktop wallpaper.
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Episode 14
Date: 01.21.2009
Duration: 00:06:04
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Advanced Use of Automator Workflow Variables
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates advanced usage of workflow variables in Automator, for the purpose of storing action results, and referencing them later. Variables are a powerful feature of Automator in Leopard.
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Episode 13
Date: 01.06.2009
Duration: 00:08:44
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Getting Started with Variables in Automator
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to get started using variables to incorporate dynamic content into Automator workflows. Variables are a powerful feature of Automator in Leopard.
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Episode 12
Date: 12.23.2008
Duration: 00:06:50
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Creating a Microsoft Entourage 2008 Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to use Automator to perform tasks in Microsoft Entourage 2008, including attaching PDF versions of documents to outgoing messages, and importing attachments into Aperture.
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Episode 11
Date: 12.09.2008
Duration: 00:07:56
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Creating a Microsoft PowerPoint 2008 Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to use Automator to perform tasks in Microsoft PowerPoint 2008, including converting a presentation to image files for import into iPhoto, and converting to a QuickTime movie.
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Episode 10
Date: 11.25.2008
Duration: 00:07:17
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Creating a Microsoft Excel 2008 Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to use Automator to perform tasks in Microsoft Excel 2008. Ben shows you a workflow to batch convert Excel workbooks to .csv format and one that builds address labels in Excel.
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Episode 9
Date: 11.11.2008
Duration: 00:07:33
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Creating a Microsoft Word 2008 Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to create an Automator workflow that converts Microsoft Word 2008 documents to PDF or HTML format, and uploads them to a Web server via FTP.
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Episode 8
Date: 10.30.2008
Duration: 00:06:24
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Creating an Aperture Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to create an Automator workflow for Aperture that allows you to review specified photos, import approved photos into an Aperture project, and assign metadata to the photos.
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Episode 7
Date: 10.14.2008
Duration: 00:07:25
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Creating an Automator PDF Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to save Automator workflows as print workflow plug-ins. Once saved, these workflows appear in Mac OS X's print dialog, and can be triggered to process printed PDF documents.
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Episode 6
Date: 10.01.2008
Duration: 00:04:16
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Scheduling Automator Workflows
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to save Automator workflows as iCal alarm plug-ins, allowing them to be scheduled to run during downtime, such as at night or while you're away from your desk.
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Episode 5
Date: 09.16.2008
Duration: 00:07:03
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Automating Manual Tasks with QuicKeys
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how QuicKeys, a third-party automation utility, can be used to perform manual events in Mac OS X. QuicKeys shortcuts can be run from menus, key commands, and even Automator workflows.
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Episode 4
Date: 09.02.2008
Duration: 00:07:03
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Automating Manual Tasks with iKey
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how iKey, a third-party automation utility, can be used to perform manual events in Mac OS X. iKey shortcuts can be run from menus, key commands, and even larger automated workflows.
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Episode 3
Date: 08.26.2008
Duration: 00:05:35
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Recording Manual Events in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how even the novice Mac user can get started with AppleScript by recording manual events in the Mac OS X Finder, or other recordable application, as a script, and playing them back.
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Episode 2
Date: 08.06.2008
Duration: 00:07:41
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Recording Manual Events in Automator
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to use Automator in Leopard to record your manual mouse clicks and keystrokes, and play them back as part of your workflow. Use recording to expand Automator's capabilities.
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Episode 1
Date: 07.29.2008
Duration: 00:07:09
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Creating an Image Processing Automator Workflow
In this first episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to create a simple image processing workflow using Automator in Mac OS X Leopard. Learn how to create a workflow that manipulates images from directly within the Finder.
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