– Automator– An application that allows you to put together and organizeworkflows using tasks and Applescript functionality. It allowsyou to put together photo albums, send email, sort your iTunes playlists, burn CDs, and so much more at the click of a button.- I put together an Automator script that I can run from the scriptmenu at the top of the window that opens up a movie that I havesaved to my hard drive with the VLC player. As soon as I clickthe script menu item, the script searches through my activeFinder window for the file that I told it to look for and opensit with the application that I specified in the Finder viewoptions for that particular file.- When I began building this workflow, I noticed that by defaultthe movie would first try to open with Quicktime player. Sincemy Quicktime is not set up to run this particular file, I wouldget an error in my workflow and it would stop running. So Iconfigured this particular file (the movie Hackers) to open withVLC, which is basically a universal media player that playsvirtually everything.- After that, it was smooth sailing. The only problem I have withthis one is that when it runs, I get a warning message with VLC.While I was recording with Automator, I recorded that I clickedthe “ignore” button to get out of the warning window. Automatorrecognized me double clicking the VLC window to get into fullscreen mode, but it didn’t recognize my single click to make thewarning window go away. But that’s the only thing that I had todo on my open. The movie opens up in the right player andautomatically goes to full screen, and I can actually see themouse moving through all these actions, which is very nice.- I’m sure that with a little fine tuning, I’ll be able to get thisworking as correctly as I’d like to. If you have anysuggestions, tips, or questions leave me a comment and I’dcertainly appreciate it. Till next time 🙂