Say a word about Automator

It would be strange if it did not appear to MacRadar article about one of the most useful program in Mac OS X - Automator. And in order to rectify the situation, we are publishing an introductory overview for switchers and beginners about it.

Automator has been developed for Mac OS X to automate routine processes (Thurs. actions) and is he your chief assistant in the Mac OS X, so it is important to learn how to work with him.

Automator uses AppleScript and Cocoa, but the user does not need to be familiar with these programming languages. Using a graphical interface, you create a chain of actions Drag'n'Drop by dragging from the possible actions of the library in a special window. Then save this chain as any process.

Such actions are called chain Workflow. Workflow can be saved as a special file to use it in the future, you can save it as a service to print as a program or as an option to the context menu.

In the future, you can use this routine of most programs, including the Finder, Safari, Mail, Pixelmator (Thurs. our overview) And other 3rd-party software.

On MacRadar we will touch on in the future Automator topic and show possible examples of its use, the creation of useful workflow. And now, we recommend that you read the following links:

• Automator definition on Wikipedia
• A plurality of finished workflow in the Apple Downloads site.
• secrets Automator - a good article for examples (in Russian)