Can Automator do this?

I'd like to have Automator do the following. Go to various job searching web sites and input several search terms, get the results back, and then click on the tab on the web page that orders the results by date? Can Automator do this?
As an example, use Monster.com, search for jobs using chemist as the key word. Open up a new tab and use Chemistry as a key word. Then, click on the date tab that arranges the result by date.
Possible?
Thanks!

Heyup.
Yea you can. I'm no pro myself but I do a similar thing on a daily basis but I submit a blog of sorts.
What you need is ottomate actions and this video is useful in giving you an idea how to get it to work. You need to have safari set as your default browser.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPUBtvd0C7I

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I want to drop a music folder on a droplet and have it automatically moved to my Music directory and then the files in that moved directory added to iTunes. I do not want to have iTunes manage my music files for a number of reasons.
I tried to do it in Automater using the "Move Files" action and then the "Import Files Into iTunes" action, but that didn't work, it only moved the files. I'm missing something, as I'm guessing after the move it doesn't pass the directory info to the next action, but I'm a total Automater/Apple Script noob.
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That should be very doable.
I think part of the issue you're facing is that automator needs to know the new location of the folders you moved, so you need to add another Get Specified Finder Items action before the Import Audio Files.
Your Automator action would look like this:
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(Add your new folder location - see note below)
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This works just fine for me on my system, but I let iTunes manage my music folders and have fixed file locations for the drop, and let the system delete after import.
Some caveats: The MP3 encoder will use what ever you have set in iTunes for the bitrate, etc, so make sure iTunes is set where you want it.
I think another issue you're going to run into is that the process can't be completely automated since you're not using fixed folder locations. To use changing locations, you would open the Options button on Get action, check Show this action when the workflow runs. Then when you drop your files or run the automator, it will pop up a box asking you to point to the folder your new music is in. Not quite automatic, but unless you're going to let iTunes manage, I'm not sure how to do that. I'm certainly not automator expert.
You could probably come up with a very sophisticated applescript to do this, but I'm just learning applescript, so you'll have to get help there from someone else.
To make the automator run on the drop, google for instructions there.
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I work at a nonprofit organization with four offices. I would like to use photocasting to make it easy for the other offices to send me photos. But, we only have two .Mac accounts. I'm using one. One computer in each of the other three offices is set up with the other .Mac account.
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Set up your Public folder with a user name and password and have the other offices access that folder on your iDisk to upload their photos in folders with appropriate titles to let you know where they came from and the date. The senders could archive the folder of photos, zip them, and send. Might make sending a bit quicker.
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In a parent folder, I have a bunch of subfolders with image files (BMP, JPG or PNG).
I want each of these subfolders to become a PDF combining the original image files.
I also want the resulting PDFs to be named as the original subfolder.
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[email protected]

Your feed is at http://www.talkingwalking.net/public/Talking_Walking/rss.xml . It contains episodes running from 23 February 2008 to 20 September 2012 and when you subscribe to this feed in the iTunes application all the episodes appear. The link on your web page is to this feed, so subscribing from the page works OK,
Searching for 'Talking Walking' in the iTunes Store produces a lot of result, none of them relevant or yours. This rather suggests that your podcast has been removed from the Store - if the feed wasn't functioning for an appreciable time this would be a normal reason for removal.
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http://www.wilmut.webspace.virginmedia.com/notes/podcast.html#move
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You mention seeing the web page for the Store page - it's not possible to check this unless you post the URL.
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