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04.22.09 - Extending Automator: Finding More Actions.
There are literally hundreds of add-on actions available from third-party developers to help extend Automator's capabilities. To find them, you just need to know where to look. Start by going to Apple's Mac OS X downloads page, where you'll find a category specifically for Automator actions. [Read more at Peachpit.com...]
Episode 16
Date: 02.17.2009
Duration: 00:08:48
Extending Automator Workflows with Third-Party Actions
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to extend the power of Automator with third-party actions, allowing you to build Web photo galleries, a birthday calendar in iCal, a photo contacts sheet in InDesign, and more..
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July, 2008 - Geek Factor - Best Automator Downloads: Building better workflows with third-party actions.
Automator is a great tool for automating basic tasks on your Mac, no scripting or programming required. By dragging prebuilt actions together, you can quickly and easily create countless workflows to do things you might otherwise have to do manually.
Mac OS X comes with hundreds of Automator actions to get you started. These actions can handle basic tasks within the operating system itself, as well as in many of OS X's bundled applications, including Address Book, iCal, iTunes, Mail, and Safari. But as useful as all of these built-in actions are, they can't do everything. [Read more at Macworld.com...]
