Basic Automator Tutorial

Just discovered your tutorials tonight. Really well done. I'm a frequent user of Automator.

Blah Blah Blah. This is about as productive as filling a bag of sand dumping it out and filling it again. TOTALLY useless!!!!!

I wanna create a work flow for iCal that creates a reoccurring rotating work schedule. Does anyone know if there is a workflow or action out there that will help be do this VERY tedious task.
Love the Video you def opened my eyes to more uses for my Mac. Thanks again

You make it look so simple. I just dont get the automator "verbiage" that is part of the action. And the descriptions of what the action does at the bottom of the screen is not much better. It is an on going lesson. I did go to the web site you mentioned at the end.

Great vid.... thanks.
Getting a new iMac 27" soon, and this will be very handy.
BTW what app did you use to make your video...?

Your the prettiest mac tutorialist :D

Hello, iTalkApple! =) Thanks for this great video of yours, and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

I've had my first Mac (iBook G4 10.4 Tiger) then a MacBook 10.5 Leopard, but never really used at all this very powerful Automator application. After this post, I hope I can apply it in finally organizing all my files.

Again, thanks and Apple and Mac is the best! =)

Addition: I've gave you 5 stars ;) for that. Also added this to my faves and subscribed. =)

Is that possible to do this all actions when I double-click on text "or maybe selecting and pressing some keys"..
1. copy text
2. past it in some text file
3. "find and copy it's definition next to it."
--> and do all these in the background "i mean without interrupting me from reading"
The Aim is NOT INTERRUPTING the READING.. when during reading I met some new unknown words "philosophical or some advanced hard word I copy them in to the text file for the further to find out definitions of them

I watched the whole thing & I still don't get what Automator does. Great video though!

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