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Simplifying your life with AppleScript
Letting AppleScript create scripts for you
Writing scripts on your own
Using Automator to create your own applications
Searching for AppleScript help elsewhere
Wsing a Macintosh is supposed to make your life easier — and in many ways, it does. But there’s a limit to how much your MacBook can do by itself, right? After all, you still have to move your finger on the trackpad, press keys on the keyboard, and read information on the screen to get things done . . . or do you? Why not let your computer do the dull chores — such as renaming a thousand digital photographs from your family vacation and organizing them into folders based on the subject of each photo — for you? Although most people are familiar with controlling their MacBooks with the trackpad and keyboard, few realize that they can operate their machines without touching a key or a button, or even glancing at the screen.
