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My unix roots often make me jump to shell/ruby/perl when AppleScript is a better choice, especially with the Automator.

I wanted to automatically download the WebKit nightly build for testing, and instead of opening downloadwebkit.sh to wget, open, cp -r, etc I remembered to open up automator and build a simple workflow.

Many developers hate UIs and just want to vi a file and start typing. This is a good example of a useful UI as it helps you find the API that is available (much nicer than grep) and you can drop down into AppleScript too.