O'Reilly Released, AppleScript: The Missing Manual

"If you're an everyday Mac user--not some fancy-schmancy computer science Ph.D.--AppleScript is by far the easiest language to use for automating your Mac," assures Adam Goldstein, author of the new AppleScript: The Missing Manual (O'Reilly, US $24.95). Goldstein shows readers how to take full advantage of Apple's ultra-popular, English-like scripting language to save time, energy, and resources by getting AppleScript to do "just about anything you can do yourself" on the Mac. With his book, Goldstein promises, "Mac users of all kinds--even those who don't know how to program--will be able to write useful AppleScripts with confidence and proficiency." [Bill Fox]