by As I’ve outlined over the many years we’ve produced these Automator tips, this fine utility can be used in powerful ways to make your work easier. However, in the hands of the office prankster it can also be used as a useful tool on the first day of April.
The following workflows require that you have access to your target’s Mac and user account. No one but a fool would leave their Mac open in such a way, but finding such fools is exactly what April Fools’ Day is all about, right?
The devious desktop
Automator allows you to choose any image you like and use it as a desktop pattern. Feel free to click on the image below to expand it to its full size. Click on the image and then drag it to your desktop to save it. If that doesn’t work, Control-click (or right-click) on the original image in this story and select Open Link In Window. Drag and click from there.
Click on this image to enlarge and then copy that enlarged image to your Mac
Plant that image in a not-entirely-obvious place on your victim’s Mac. Launch Automator (in /Applications) and in the template chooser that appears, select Application and click Choose. In the Finder, drag this image file into the workflow area. This creates a Get Specified Finder Items action that points to the image.
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