When Apple was touting Automator as part of the OS X 10.4 Tiger upgrade, some people wondered whether AppleScript would be needed anymore. Now that we’ve seen Automator, AppleScript may be needed more ...

As is so often the case in the cyclic world of software development, history repeats itself, but (despite Marx’s dictum) it’s better the second time. A couple of years ago, my TidBITS contributions ...

AppleScript is simultaneously one of the most-powerful and one of the least-used Macintosh utilities, the latter partially due to serious deficiencies in Apple’s own Script Editor. Late Night Software ...

Late Night Software (www.latenightsoftware.com) has released Script Debugger 7, the latest version of its AppleScript IDE. Script Debugger is an integrated development environment focused entirely on ...

Retrospect 6 Driver Update 6.1.9.102: backup driver. This release has support for the Breece Hill Q16 Tape Library, Dell PowerVault RDX1000 (USB) Removable Drive and other new devices. Script Debugger ...

Late Night Software has updated Script Debugger to version 5.0, a major new release for the AppleScript authoring environment (for an overview, see Matt Neuburg’s “Script Debugger 4.5 Offers Power ...

Under Mac OS X 10.2.x, Script Debugger fails to compile large scripts. When attempting to compile scripts over 3000 lines, the program will return an "out of memory ...

Re-written from the ground up, Script Debugger 5.0 introduces the concept of script templates used to create new script documents and more. It requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher.

AppleScript geeks, rejoice! Late Night Software's Script Debugger 4 is out, and it looks good. The UI has been overhauled to take up less screen real estate, while taking advantage of the wide screen ...