With every Mac sold comes a powerful little app called Automator. Here are some of our favorite Automator workflows that highlight exactly how powerful this tool is. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Take a look at any of Apple's promotional material for Tiger (Mac OS X 10.4) and you'll find that a feature that consistently gets a top-billing is Automator. However, I suspect that, if you could ...

Movies created through time-lapse photography can be stunning. And for some people in the sciences they can also be a useful tool. While there are a variety of applications that allow you to create ...

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 ...

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

Over at Engadget, Barb Dybwad offers a nice tutorial on using Mac OS X 10.4’s (Tiger) Automator to automatically grab news items from the web, convert them to text, and the load them into iTunes so ...

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 ...

Every day I use a handy service created with Automator to resize images exported from 4K footage to a smaller size. It’s easy to resize images in an app like Preview or Pixelmator, but using a service ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. Automators interface is simple to understand. Select an ...

Longtime Macintosh vendor Bare Bones Software Inc. on Thursday announced support for the new Mac OS X “Tiger” with the release of BBEdit 8.2. The update to the popular text- and code-editing ...

If you need to resize a ton of images on your Mac, Automator is the way to do it in one fell swoop. 9to5Mac shows off how to quickly make your own Automator service for doing just that. While ...