As you're probably well aware by now, the highly-anticipated Office 2008 is coming with a lot of new features, but it's also shedding a few features along the way. One of the big losses, especially ...

Last year when Microsoft quietly revealed that it was eliminating support for Visual Basic from the next version of Office for Macintosh, there was much wailing and gnashing of teeth within the Mac ...

Back in December, I wrote about Microsoft’s decision to drop support for Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) from the next version of Office. I had, and still have, many concerns about the switch. The ...

MacTech to offer Visual Basic to AppleScript conversion guide We've extensively covered Microsoft's decision to drop Visual Basic support from the forthcoming version of Office for Mac OS X (Office ...

Technical publisher O’Reilly & Associates has released “AppleScript: The Definitive Guide,” a new book by Matt Neuburg that explains “the how, where and why of using AppleScript.” The book examines ...

Many people have criticized Apple for not updating their AppleScript language documentation regularly (myself included). Scoff no more, because Apple updated their documentation yesterday. The last ...

MacTech Magazine is once again accepting votes for the 2007 MacTech 25, a roundup of the people who contribute the most technical assistance to the Macintosh community through their writing, speaking, ...

My love of AppleScript knows no bounds. I often tell people that they should be using AppleScript to help them automate everything from mass file renaming to making their beds (well, not so much that ...