Last year I posted some instructions–mostly for my own use–for transcoding video I’d recorded and uploading the results to Amazon S3 so that I could embed video in an HTML5 video element here on the ...

Then it will restore to your previous state when you are done. ##Installation Copy black-background.jpg to the Pictures folder in your home directory. The automator scripts can be stored and launched ...

The Automator application in OS X is a feature that many people use to modify documents in a folder, or perform other routine actions such as synchronizing items in a folder with those in another ...

Automator's great for streamlining some of the repetitive things you do each day on your Mac. With Automator, you can create your own custom plugins for the Services menu, Folder Action workflows that ...

Disclosure: When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. You’ve most likely desired that your Mac could handle boring, repetitive tasks for you? Good ...

In this hands-on tutorial, Ars will show you how to use Automator to build platform services that incorporate shell scripting.

Since Apple is introducing Shortcuts to macOS Monterey in the fall, it may be worth backing up all of your Automator workflows before it lands. Here's how to make a copy of your automations. Shortcuts ...

This how-to uses the new Automator feature in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger to set up a Workflow that can load up your iPod with audio content generated from one or several web sites of your choice by running ...