Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Forum regular, JRL, has created a little graphical puzzle game using nothing but Macro Scheduler. Check it out here. Very impressive. Usually Macro Scheduler is saving businesses time and cutting their costs. Sometimes however, it’s ok to have a little fun. Especially at Christmas! 🙂 And speaking of puzzles, there are still 5 prizes up […]
For a bit of fun this holiday try out our cryptic crossword. Solve the clues to find Macro Scheduler functions and names of some of our regular forum users. There are 10 MJT Gearhead mugs up for grabs for the first 10 correct entries. If you get stuck keep an eye on our Facebook page […]
Did you know you can make just about any kind of schedule or trigger using Custom Event Triggers? You’ll find the custom trigger option under Macro Properties in the Trigger tab. Parsnipnose3000 has just posted a tip on Custom Event Triggers to the forums, showing how you can have a macro fire based on an […]
By now you are probably aware of UAC (User Account Control) that came along when Vista was released. And you probably know that to do anything like copy files to Windows\System32 or Program Files or do other administrative stuff you need to be running as Admin, or you’ll get the UAC prompt come up asking […]
Macro Scheduler 13.2.2 Update is now available with the following changes: Fixed: ReadFile errors not being trapped correctly Fixed: If a macro is being edited and its schedule fires, a file lock error occurs, macro should not be run by scheduler if being edited Fixed: IEGetTagsByAttrib not setting correct array index Added: IEWait function Registered […]
It occurred to me the other day while working on a script for a customer that I use this regular expression frequently: (?<=TOKEN1).*?(?=TOKEN2) It is very useful when parsing information out of web pages, or when finding elements in web pages. What it does is pull out all the text between TOKEN1 and TOKEN2. Those […]
Gotta love Amazon. Received the following in an email today 18th October. I have removed identifying info. Emphasis mine: date: 18 October 2012 11:53 subject: Your Amazon.co.uk Enquiry I’m sorry to hear that you haven’t received your order ############# yet. I’ve checked and can see that it was sent via DPD_24_PRIME to the following address: […]
Since version 13.2 Macro Scheduler‘s email functions now support SSL. Google’s Gmail and many other email services now insist on SSL secured connections. To use SSL you first need to install the OpenSSL library files. Here’s an example of sending an email via Gmail: Let>SMTP_AUTH=1 Let>[email protected] Let>SMTP_PASSWORD=your_password Let>SMTP_PORT=465 Let>SMTP_SSL=1 SMTPSendMail>[email protected],smtp.gmail.com,[email protected],your name,test,hello world, And to retrieve […]
We recently had some problems with the service we were using to host our video tutorials (divshare.com). Since most of them were also on YouTube we have therefore updated our YouTube channel to include all the videos and have modified our site so that the videos are now served from YouTube. My only worry is […]
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