Enter AppleScript Using AppleScript, you can send the current URL from Safari to Google Chrome. Here is the AppleScript that I am currently using: (Note: this article was updated on 2013–02–10 to ...

NOTE: The URL for the below download was broken over the weekend and has now been corrected. Originally published Friday, June 24th. Over the past few days we've been covering a workaround that ...

I was listening to some podcasters I respect arguing about nuances in software development the other day, and thought to myself: I have no idea what these guys are talking about. The pinnacle of my ...

Backups are initiated from an authenticated web page, so I thought to use applescript since I can automate the web browser. The bigest issue I have currently is making sure a web page is loaded. I can ...

I'm a member of a forum that is having a spam party tonight to eat up some extra bandwidth. Is it possible to write a script to tell safari to insert random text into a box on screen and then send the ...

Why, when people were trying to get me to switch from Windows to a Mac, did no one tell me about AppleScript? Sure, a stable OS with Unix shell access and a sophisticated UI are nice. But a scripting ...

Now that you've mastered the tell command, it's time to introduce some of the other AppleScript commands that you may encounter. This command will allow you to open a specific location (either on your ...

Reader Leo Campo is interested in Safari’s Private Browsing feature, but finds with it a measure of frustration. He writes: I’m using Safari 4 beta on an Intel iMac under Leopard 10.5.6. I use the ...

Enter AppleScript Using AppleScript, you can send the current URL from Safari to Google Chrome. Here is the AppleScript that I am currently using: (Note: this article was updated on 2013–02–10 to ...

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. Yesterday we posted a ...