Last week I showed you how to use Automator to make a workflow that took photos from your Mac with an iSight and sent them to your Apple TV. That how-to featured one way of using a variable in ...

The latest version of Automator (in OS X 10.5 Leopard) has several handy new features. Among the most useful: variables and looping. Unfortunately, unless you’re an experienced scripter, they’re also ...

There’s more to major OS X updates than introducing entirely new features such as Time Machine. Apple also takes the opportunity to freshen up existing applications, adding new capabilities or ...

In which we disprove the myth that OS X is a more closed system than Windows. I've been writing about software and hardware for PCMag for more than 40 years, focusing on operating systems, office ...

Whether you prefer OS X or Windows, you've probably heard and likely believe that OS X is a "closed" system that won't let you customize it in the way you can customize Windows, and that real ...

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 ...