AppleScript is omniscient, easy to understand, and built into every Mac, and this book will show you how to unleash its full power so that you can take control of your Mac! It is a high-level, natural-language, pervasive architecture custom built to control everything your Mac can do. As the language of automation for Mac OS X, AppleScript has complete access to the Finder's graphical user interface and controls interapplication communication with all AppleScript-able applications. Learn AppleScript: The Comprehensive Guide to Scripting and Automation on Mac OS X is up to date for all that's new in Apple's latest release of the operating system, Snow Leopard. It starts off with a concise introduction to the world of AppleScript so that you can get your bearings, and then moves directly to how to use AppleScript. Along the way, you'll learn how to handle variables, loops, and commands.