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 ...

Convenient though the Mac’s folder structure can be, there may be times when you’ve buried files within so many layers of folders that they’re no longer easy to find or deal with. For instance, you ...

Apple’s built-in automation tool, Automator (in /Applications), is capable of performing wondrous feats, yet far too many people ignore it—believing their work wouldn’t benefit from automation or that ...

It doesn't have to be difficult to make your Mac automatically perform repetitive or tedious tasks for you. Apple's free Automator app on every Mac has a plethora of functions that take one step to ...

I've never used automator much, wondering if it can, well... automate something for me. I have a folder with "x" number of files. I need to send an email with a pre-defined template, where the only ...

We spend so much of our workdays doing rather arduous and tedious tasks, especially if you're working on a computer of any kind. Renaming files, converting PDFs; these are the things that can take way ...

Do you spend time resizing images for reports, documents or the web? Here’s an easy Automator application you can make in a few minutes to make this process simpler. Automator is a fantastic free ...

Apple’s Automator is a fantastic way to manage your iTunes tracks… but with Apple’s iTunes 10 update, many iTunes-specific Automator workflows have simply stopped working. According to upset users in ...