When working with CSV files on a Mac, you may find that Japanese characters become garbled when opened in Excel.This is often ...

AppleScript is Apple's powerful automation language for macOS. Here's how to use it to speed up your workflow when using your Mac. AppleScript was born in the early 1990's at Apple in an attempt to ...

Having AI agents like Claude Code or Codex operate Mac app screens. Actually, this has been possible for a while. You can ...

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. This plain-speech scripting language enables ...

Apple acquired NeXT at the end of 1996, with the plan of using that company’s OpenStep operating system as the foundation for the future of Mac OS. The first plan for that OS was called Rhapsody, and ...

I have been using Mavericks for a little while now and I have to admit that I was a little slow to get excited about this release of OS X. Once I started to sink my teeth into some of the power-user ...

I used applescript to ask the user, using the choose folder dialog box, what folder is to be made into a html page. It looks thru the pdfs and creates the html links and adds contact information and ...

It’s that time again. A new version of OS X is out, and with it come the recurring cries of AppleScript’s demise. But let’s try to remain calm: Recent Internet rumors that the sky is falling may be ...

Apple makes it easy to switch between light and dark mode in macOS. Regardless of whether you’re just changing the Dock and Menu Bar (in Yosemite through High Sierra) or the entire system with ...

Applescript has effectively been in an unmanaged and depreciated state (at time of writing) for the last ten years. So add on a lot of OS security over the years, with a language that gets no love and ...

Over the past few days we’ve been covering a workaround that involves deleting the com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist to alleviate some performance problems in Safari. MacFixIt readers John ...