Archive: November 2006

Code Signing Compiled Macros

November 9, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Update 26th April 2011: We are now able to offer our customers a discount on Comodo Code Signing certificates through our Partners K Software. For details and coupon code please log into the registered user area. What is Code Signing? In Windows XP when you download an executable file from the Internet the browser checks […]

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Not a crack

November 7, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Someone emailed me a link to a page on a crack site which purported to offer a crack for the Macro Scheduler 8.1 evaluation version. So I fired up Windows 2000 in Virtual PC and downloaded the “crack”. It contained two executable files. I scanned them with AVG Antivirus. One of the files contained a […]

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Tools Upload Area?

November 2, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

I’ve been thinking about creating an area of the site for people to upload tools they’ve created with Macro Scheduler Pro to. It could be free tools and utilities, or even demo versions of commercial products you’ve created. It would be a great way to demonstrate some of the things Macro Scheduler can do, as […]

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Beta 9.0 Progress

by Marcus Tettmar in General

Wow it’s been a busy few weeks since we announced the beta. But I’m pleased to say that pretty much all of the issues found so far have been minor UI tweaks. There have been no reported backwards compatible problems with running old scripts and the new functions and scripting features are working well. I’ve […]

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Green IT

October 31, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Over here in the UK, climate change and the environment are finally well and truly on the agenda. Green issues get a mention in almost every TV evening news bulletin and our political leaders, gearing up for the next general election, are giving green policies great importance. But this time it appears to be more […]

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Use a Tablet PC or Hate the Keyboard?

October 28, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements, General

The trouble with a Tablet PC is the lack of a keyboard. Ok, you can use the stylus, but some applications rely on awkward keystroke combinations which just aren’t readily available on a Tablet PC. There’s one particular website I often access with my Tablet PC which never seems to remember my password, and also […]

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Brilliant Image Recognition

October 26, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation, General

Wells Anderson posts: “Image Recognition is a brilliant new feature in 9.0. It allows you to write macros that press buttons that are “invisible” or have unpredictable locations. For example, add-ins to MS Outlook and other MS Office applications may have no menu equivalents and cannot be found using PushButton or FindWindowWithText. Image Recognition lets […]

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Get Back Vista Run Command!

October 20, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Vista

The biggest annoyance for me with Vista is that, by default, the “Run..” option is no longer on the Start menu. If you’re like me it’s probably one of the most used items on your computer! Now, you can use the search box in Vista in the same kind of way. But there’s no drop […]

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Squidoo Lens

by Marcus Tettmar in General

Just for the heck of it I set up a Macro Scheduler Lens on Squidoo a while back. I didn’t expect much to come of it but recently I’ve noticed a small number of referrals from it, and its lens rank has jumped up to 4,538. Not bad considering it was as low as 20,000+. […]

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Firefox2 or IE7?

October 19, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Web/Tech

I see IE7 has been released. Haven’t installed it yet, but I do have an early beta version running on another PC and found that a bit clunky. I’m a Firefox fan though, so I’ve just downloaded and installed Firefox 2 RC3. I like it. The interface has been given a subtle update but it […]

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