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Shortcuts: Automating the Mac

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October 1993: AppleScript for the Mac.
April 2005: Automator for the Mac.
September 2018: Shortcuts for iOS.
October 2021: Shortcuts for macOS.

October 13, 2021 Macs, Technology

Code-signing requirements for scripts and apps in Big Sur

Does Big Sur require you to sign your own apps or other code using a proper Apple-issued signature? What about notarization and quarantine? Your questions answered.

February 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Stick a fork in it, and other flashbacks

Classic resource forks passed into Mac OS X, but were deprecated by Apple in 10.8. Now in Catalina they can stop working: is this a new security measure?

December 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Code signing for the concerned: 6 Signing scripts and command tools

Can you sign AppleScript apps in Script Editor? Is there a better tool? What’s the best way to sign a command tool developed in Xcode?

January 31, 2019 Macs, Technology

More fun scripting with Swift and Xcode: the signature shuffle

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Another ‘scripting’ exercise in Swift starts with time wasted sorting out signing. But it does get better after that.

December 21, 2016 Macs, Technology

Writing LogLogger2 in AppleScript: dialog and advanced shell scripting

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Writing advanced dialog code and building a friendly front-end for a complicated command tool, in AppleScript.

October 14, 2016 Macs, Technology

Script Debugger version 6

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Simply the best development environment, which now has superb support for AppleScript Objective-C. At half the price too.

June 27, 2016 Macs, Technology

How to set up a folder action to automate document processing

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Folder actions can do many useful things. Here I develop one to decompress Zip archives.

August 12, 2015 Macs, Technology

AppleScript – 21 years old and still going it alone on OS X

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Old, often neglected, and only available on Macs, AppleScript should have been overwhelmed by numerous other scripting languages – if it were not for its unique abilities.

April 23, 2015 Macs, Technology

Layout to database 2: Building a Database by Script

I have now used the first of three days allowed to rescue content from thousands of InDesign forms. Entering the second day, I had converted each document into a nest of IDML content, and needed to build that into the database.

April 11, 2015 Macs, Technology

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