News Briefs

[MacWorld](http://www.macworld.com) is featuring an [excerpt](http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/secrets/tcoautomator/index.php) from the eBook [*Take Control of Customizing Tiger*](http://www.takecontrolbooks.com/tiger-customizing.html?14@@!pt=MW-EXCERPT-TCCT2) on some Automator basics ... also at MacWorld, [Ben Long](http://www.completedigitalphotography.com/) has written [Automate Photoshop chores](http://www.macworld.com/2005/11/secrets/decdigitalphoto/index.php), a tutorial aimed at photographers looking to automate repetitive Photoshop actions ... along the same lines, [MacNN](http://www.macnn.com/) has reprinted [*Building an Automator Action*](http://www.macnn.com/articles/05/11/07/automator.action/) from [MacTech](http://www.mactech.com/), a very concise tutorial on creating your own actions with Xcode.