We talk about iCal once in a while. Did you know that an iCal alarm can launch an AppleScript? A recent comment from reader Zach (and subsequent replies) made us think that this tip might be of use to ...

If you’ve kicked around with a Mac for more than a few years and you read Macworld, you almost certainly have an AppleScript or seven that you rely on for certain custom features. I wrote a very ...

Mac OS offers AppleScript as a powerful automation tool you can use to share data among applications and turn complex file-management tasks into single-click programs. First implemented in 1992, when ...

Sophisticated Circuits has released iDo Script Scheduler 1.5, a Mac OS X utility for running AppleScripts at any time you wish. <?php virtual(“/includes/boxad.inc ...

Over the weekend, MacInTouch and Slashdot posted information regarding a shell script dubbed "opener" that, if installed with proper authentication on a Mac OS X system, can trigger several ...

I need to collect the MAC addresses of around 200 computers. Any simple script I can run which will write it to a text file? (I don't need any additional information.) Google had not been my friend.

Clay Caviness, systems administrator on Google’s internal Macintosh Operations team, just announced on Google+ that the team will begin releasing a selection of scripts, tools, and utilities used ...

Proximity is a simple micro-app for Mac OS X that monitors your Bluetooth connections so it can tell when a wireless device is near by or not. When it detects one of your gadgets entering or leaving ...

I have for a long time had a problem where Home sharing would stop when accessing my content from my Apple TV 4K. Restarting the Music and TV apps on the Mac actually makes it work again. So I have ...

There are a handful of apps that I have to have on every Mac I use, or things quickly start to get annoying. Launchbar is one. Dropbox is another, and TextExpander is one more. TextExpander is sold as ...

Unofficial NVIDIA eGPU support is now a reality for Mac users. It’s all thanks to the developers and researchers that congregate over at eGPU.io, a community for eGPU coverage and support across Mac, ...

Your computer's MAC address is on part of what makes it possible for people to secretly track you. If you want to really prevent that from happening, blogger Jonathan Zdziarski shows off a simple bash ...