How To Automate Your Mac To Do Good Things

Most Mac users may not know it, but OS X comes with a very handy utility to automate many repetitive tasks.

Apple, always the creative technochic company, calls it Automator. It’s free. It works. It requires you to think about what you want it to do. Or, you could spend a little money and buy a bunch of Automator Actions to do the thinking for you.

Automator is one of the handiest of a few nearly unknown Mac utilities. Basically, you select from a stack of actions.... (excerpted).

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