Jason Snell's Bad AppleScripts deal with helpful subroutines and parsing nasty file paths.

How to Use AppleScript to Launch Programs. 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 ...

Here is a fun approach for automatically changing Safari's downloads folder to an external drive that uses AppleScript. If you like scripting on a Mac then this may be for you.

Everything Announced at Nvidia's 2025 Computex Press Conference Tech Computing Standalone AppleScript for removing performance bottlenecks in Safari (deletes potentially problematic .plist files) ...

I have a folder of about 1800 files that I need to quickly remove files from. I have a TXT document with a list of files that I need to delete. Is there any app or applescript that I can use to ...

This AppleScript will launch Google Chrome if it is not already running, and will not overwrite any existing tabs in Google Chrome. To use this AppleScript, you will need to download it from Github.

Scripting routine tasks affords powerful time-saving benefits, if you’re willing to learn a little about automation. Jason B. Jones shows a super-easy way to start learning with AppleScript.

Does anyone have any insight into how to create a note in Notes.app under El Capitan and add an attached file? I have found online that supposedly, Notes interprets a tag as an attachment when ...

You can modify it yourself to point to a different folder or to target different files. If you remove the qualifier "whose name begins with" and leave the line as " delete (every item of folder ...

Do you launch the same apps every morning and shut them down every night? Glenn Fleishman has an AppleScript that could take care of those repetitive chores for you.