The Awesome Automation Guide for Mac Users

by Bakari

Work smart, not hard. That’s the idea behind Mac Automation, a technology built into Apple’s OS X but frequently underutilized. Whether it’s sorting your email, searching your documents or building a playlist, you’d be amazed how many tasks can be done automatic instead of manually -if only you knew how to get started.
Lucky for you, MakeUseOf is offering a free Mac Automation guide covering just that. It explains everything you need to stop clicking your mouse so often and start letting your computer do the boring stuff for you. Take full advantage of the most powerful operating system on the planet and save yourself from time.

Genres: Nonfiction, Technology, Photography

73 pages, ebook

First published July 13, 2010

About the author

This year, I’m started finally committed myself to reading 52 books in 52 weeks. To support this challenge, I’ve also created title, Reading for Change, which will focus on the books that I read about progressive culture culture, politics, and activism, and why we need fundamental change toward socialism and humanism.

Reviews

[Ahmed Abdelhamid · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very poor material, but sufficient for starters, if not excellent...as a Tutorial.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

Half manual for the excellent Day One app, half manual for aspiring journalling habit seekers, it's a short, but very well done book that you can probably read in an hour or so. I was tempted to give it 3 stars first, just based on a fact that it delivers only a small bit of usefulness, but then I decided against it, since it was actually intended to be that small and it succeeded at that. It's also fair to say that it nudged me to buy few more books mentioned there to get a deeper dive into the topic and I'm also going to come back to it for the list of inspirations and journal entry starter ideas, whenever I feel like i don't know what to write about in my daily 750 words.

[Bakari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hi, I'm the author of this book. It's sold only through the iTunes Book Store. http://bit.ly/1EhLatl. The ebook downloads in the iBook Reader for the iPad or Mac. Sample chapters from the book can be downloaded for free.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

If it weren't for some formatting choices I dislike (allow me to put the book into dark mode, and allow me to highlight, make notes, and share excerpts, thankyouverymuch), I would have given this five stars. It's full of helpful information about Day One and journaling.

[Bakari · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another PDF guide I wrote for MakeUseOf.com. It covers useful online software applications, tips, and strategies for planning and holding online meetings. It's a free guide.

[Bakari · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the second PDF I wrote for MakeUseOf.com. This guide is also little dated as well, but if you don't anything about the smart automation features (smart folders, smart mailboxes, smart playlists, etc.) in Apple software, this guide introduces you to those features. It also explains how to use Automator, a built-in automation program in Mac OS X, which is not popular as it used to be. However, if you want to get more out of your Mac and make it do things for you, Automator, and program called Keyboard Maestro will help.

[Bakari · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the first PDF guide I wrote MakeUseOf.com. The contents are little dated now, but I think it's still a useful FREE guide if you're new to digital photography. It explains the differences between point-and-shoot and DSLR cameras, basic and advance camera settings, and basic and advance shooting techniques. It also contains links to other resources.

[Bakari · Rating 5 out of 5]

In this short guide, I provide step-by-step tutorials for learning Markdown syntax in under 30 minutes. I also provide links and resources to Markdown online, Mac, and PC Markdown applications. Markdown is easier to learn and use than HTML, and it makes your documents look professional. The guide is a free download.

[Sherri · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is as a simple, very readable introduction to markdown and multi markdown. My only issue is that some of the instructions asked me to copy and paste a blurb of text into the text editor, which I couldn't do since I was reading on my kindle. But that's easily solvable by creating my own text blurbs, so it wasn't a big deal. The resources and shortcut list in the appendix are helpful too.

[Angela Randall · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of great ideas and advice for online meetings in this guide.

[Anna Epishcheva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Summary of techniques & links to the books = the best part

[Xinyu · Rating 3 out of 5]

Markdown is very simple to learn and to use.