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Sal Soghoian talks Automator use in education
Total Apps has published a nice guest post from Sal Soghoian, Apple's Production Manager for Automator, intended for teachers. He describes how educators have a limited amount of instruction time with the kids, and even less for maintenance tasks ...
Google Earth Automator actions
Nyhthawk at Automator.us has put together two Automator actions for Google Earth. The first is a 'Go To Location' action, while the second is a 'Save Screenshot' action. Since I can't find any version requirements for gEarth, I can only assume for ...
Automator Action Packs galore
In my newsreader today I saw an 'iPhoto Action Pack' from Automator World that adds a handy action for workflows involving iPhoto: "Find iPhoto Item Path". While debating whether that was TUAW-worthy, my newsreader became bombarded with more ...
Automator - Yay or Nay?
A post yesterday at MacSlash asking how useful Automator really is inspired me to bring the question to the TUAW audience: do you use Automator? Do you find it useful or useless? I know plenty of workflows make their way through the TUAW postings, ...
Location Switch Automator action
Location Switch is an Automator action that adds some painfully missing features to Mac OS X's built-in Locations option (y'know, that feature you never touch in the Apple menu?). Location Switch can a whole host of application preferences and ...
Upload to FTP, an Automator action
I like the Automator, and I like to FTP things (I just do, ok?). If only there was a way I could combine my two passions into one uber-passion.Luckily for me Peter Dekkers has got me covered. He is the creator of Upload to FTP, which is a pretty ...
Quick Look Automator workflows
We've fallen in love with the convenience of Quick Look here at TUAW. With the click of the spacebar, you can preview documents right in the Finder. It's very useful. Now, look what happens when you apply Quick Look to an Automator workflow: You're ...
Automator and Remote Desktop 3
As you may
know, the US online Apple Store went down briefly
this morning, and returned to
reveal Apple Remote Desktop 3 (RD3). As we pointed out, this is a
major update with a slew of changes. Automator World is pointing to a
page at Apple's site ...
Automator actions: Attach Applescripts
Automator Actions for PreFab UI Actions allows you to attach AppleScripts to any application, which can be triggered automatically when the user performs an action in the target application, such as opening a window or choosing a menu item. Pretty ...
Filemaker releases Automator actions
Finally! I have been waiting for this for a while now. Earlier this week FileMaker released a set of Automator actions, allowing users to create a workflow of FileMaker scripts that can be run right from the desktop. Among the fifteen included ...
David Pogue podcast looks at Automator
In his latest podcast, Mac author David Pogue takes a look at Automator. In the course of the four and-a-half minute podcast David discusses Automator's basic functions, the drag-and-drop interface and some potential usages (stand alone workflows, ...
Copy View Source Automator Action
If you are into web design or blogging, this little Automator Action may be of interest to you: Copy View Source Automator Action from DES Productions simply copies the HTML source of the current web page in Safari as text. Very simple and very cool. ...
BuildFactory - automation for developers
I'm no developer, but I can call a good dev tool when I see one. BuildFactory from Bleep Software sounds like 'Automator for developers', with features like automated builds, building refreshed sources from Subversion, using your own external editor ...
Change desktop wallpaper with an Automator action
Sometimes randomly rotating your desktop wallpaper through the Desktop System Preferences pane is just a little overkill. Wouldn't it be nice if you had a simple drag-and-drop Automator action for setting your own wallpaper whenever your heart ...
Photoshop Automator Action Pack 2.2
Ben Long has released a v2.2 update to his most excellent set of Photoshop Automator Actions, a collection of over 70 workflow-enhancing actions for automating everything from switching color modes to cropping images and even archiving them to a ...
