If you work in a nontechnical role at your job, automation may sound like a time-consuming, even inaccessible, tool that you can’t take advantage of on your own. You may assume that to really enjoy ...

A workflow chart, or workflow diagram is an effective, easy-to-understand tool that helps people who share a common goal to understand business processes, management and human resources tasks. A ...

Deploying new OS images -- whether it is Windows, OS X, or Linux -- always presents little nuances until the process is perfected and all the bugs are ironed out. With storage prices at an all-time ...

As a developer, you realize that requirements change as a natural part of the application development process. You can best address such change by being prepared. In many applications, workflow — the ...

There are 12 distinct tasks in the content creation process. Let’s take a look at each one. Keep an eye on the content after it has been published to make sure it’s doing what it’s supposed to. Are ...

Automator's great for streamlining time consuming and repetitive tasks on your Mac. It's easy. Just launch it, find a few actions, and string them together to form a workflow. Then, run your workflow ...

Now that you've been introduced to Automator, let's let's get into the "nitty-gritty." In the previous Automator post, we learned how to make a workflow that would take photos from your camera, import ...

We’ll start with a straightforward action, one which will take images from the Finder and resize them when you drop them onto the application icon on the desktop. Launch Automator, either from the ...

Automator—OS X’s automation utility—gets overlooked far more than it should. It’s not terribly difficult to use and it can ease the burden of performing repetitive tasks. In this week’s video I cobble ...