Got a lot of repetitious tasks in your work life ? Automate them ! We ’ll show you how .
All month long , Macworld has been taking a look at Automator , the built - in Automation prick found in Mac OS X 10.4 . As part of that attend into how to use Automator workflow to handle the repetitive jobs on your Mac , we ’ve lined up an interview with Sal Soghoian , product director of Automator at Apple . I verbalise to Sal about how Automator is unlike from AppleScripts and how to put the mechanization puppet to work in quotidian life .
Also , we ’ve got a short interview with Macworld executive editor Dan Miller about the Macworld Gear Guide . That feature come along in the December 2005 result of Macworld — it ’s also appearing in installment at Macworld.com this week , so be trusted and check it out .
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The on-line version of the Gear Guide includes Mac - themed gift estimate for office workers , travelers , music lover , and digital photographers . We ’ll put up gear aim at kids and gamers on Thursday and Friday this workweek . Be trusted to also read some more musical endowment ideas from Playlist reviews editor Dan Frakes .
In our interview , Dan Miller mention the KensingtonThin & Light 70 Watt AC / DC Notebook Power Adapter , and one of my favourite , thePowerSquid .
As for more information on Automator , be certain to say the feature story from the December 2005 issue . There are surgical incision on taking Automator for a trial run and troubleshoot your work flow . We ’ve also got an excerption from Matt Neuburg ’s ebook Take Control of Customizing Tiger that deals with Automator . Both the Geek Factor and Digital Photo columns from the December 2005 issue also address how to comprise Automator workflows into your routine .
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