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 ...

If you edit HTML code on your Mac, you might find that Apple's text-handling programs like TextEdit may not suffice, especially since as a basic text editor it does not provide syntax-aware coloring, ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

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 weren’t around yesterday, I wrote about a brilliant little menubar utility for the Mac called Take Five, which lets you pause and automatically resume iTunes playback after X minutes. If you ...

One of the system app updates we covered on AppStories this week that I’m most excited about is Mail. The app will finally introduce several advanced features this fall, including: For the first time ...

Last October, Apple angered a lot of iWork power users when it introduced new versions of Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. The new versions were rewritten from the ground up for improved usability and ...