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Jesse's off to Alaska again on Mac Mania 6 with Geek Cruises. From May 26 to June 2, Mac Mania 6 (together with Aperture Aura) explores Alaska -- not to mention the ins and outs of these exciting technologies. Jesse will be talking about FileMaker and Automator.

One of the major new features of Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) is Automator. It is a tool that lets you build workflows from actions that may be provided by Apple (over 200 are part of the Automator installation), by software developers -- or by you, following the techniques described in the second part of this tutorial. You can use Automator to automate repetitive tasks or to manage complex and rarely-performed tasks. If you have Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger) or later, you have Automator.