Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Adding Branching Logic to Your AppleScripts

Episode 22
Date: 06.30.2009
Duration: 00:06:49
Adding Branching Logic to Your AppleScripts
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, which a focus on adding branching logic and decision making to scripts. Learn how to implement simple, compound, and nested if/then statements..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Getting Started with Variables in AppleScript

Episode 21
Date: 05.26.2009
Duration: 00:09:05
Getting Started with Variables in AppleScript
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing AppleScript's core language, with a focus on variables. Watch as Ben demonstrates how to use variables to store values from Address Book, and create a new message in Mail..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Getting Started Scripting Applications

Episode 20
Date: 04.28.2009
Duration: 00:09:22
Getting Started Scripting Applications
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates techniques for getting started writing AppleScripts to control applications in Mac OS X. Learn how to display a Web page in Safari, start the visualizer in iTunes, and more..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 2: Classes and Properties

Episode 19
Date: 03.31.2009
Duration: 00:10:00
Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 2: Classes and Properties
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie continues discussing how to navigate application AppleScript dictionaries in Mac OS X. This episode focuses on understanding elements and attributes, also known as classes and properties..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 1: Commands

Episode 18
Date: 03.17.2009
Duration: 00:07:47
Introduction to AppleScript Dictionaries: Part 1: Commands
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie begins discussing AppleScripting applications in Mac OS X by exploring how to open and navigate application AppleScript dictionaries. Ben reviews both application commands and parameters..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Introducing AppleScript and Script Editor

Episode 17
Date: 03.03.2009
Duration: 00:09:06
Introducing AppleScript and Script Editor
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie provides an introduction to the primary AppleScript components in Mac OS X, including the AppleScript Utility, Folder Actions Setup application, example scripts, and Script Editor..
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Extending Automator Workflows with Third-Party Actions

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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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Advanced Use of Automator Workflow Variables

Episode 14
Date: 01.21.2009
Duration: 00:06:04
Advanced Use of Automator Workflow Variables
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates advanced usage of workflow variables in Automator, for the purpose of storing action results, and referencing them later. Variables are a powerful feature of Automator in Leopard.
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Getting Started with Variables in Automator

Episode 13
Date: 01.06.2009
Duration: 00:08:44
Getting Started with Variables in Automator
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to get started using variables to incorporate dynamic content into Automator workflows. Variables are a powerful feature of Automator in Leopard.
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Mac Automation Made Simple Video Podcast > Creating a Looping Automator Workflow

Episode 15
Date: 02.03.2009
Duration: 00:08:39
Creating a Looping Automator Workflow
In this episode of Mac Automation Made Simple, Ben Waldie demonstrates how to create a simple looping Automator workflow, using the 'Loop' action, to download current weather satellite images and use them as your Desktop wallpaper..
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