Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
By Jeff Frownfelter. Background My name is Jeff Frownfelter, and I am the Technology Coordinator for Indiana School for the Blind and Visually Impaired. I was employed here in 2003 for the purpose of deploying and supporting new technology for use by the students and faculty. I have worked in the IT field since 1985, […]
One of Microsoft’s main focuses with Vista is to improve security. A major problem with current versions of Windows is that to be productive you pretty much always need to be logged in as an Administrator. There are lots of day to day tasks that a regular user can’t do, but should be able to. […]
Want to automate a mouse wheel event? I posted an answer in the forum showing how to do this here: Roll the mouse wheel?
Probably the simplest way to parse XML, such as an RSS feed, is to use Microsoft’s MSXML object which is built into Windows. I wrote a very quick and dirty routine using MSXML2 to download and parse this blog’s RSS feed. All it does is put the title, link and content of each item into […]
I reckon you must be doing something right when an offer of a free upgrade is refused and the customer insists on paying! I’ve been helping Randy Bass out with a whole bunch of WebRecorder scripts. He was an early adopter of WebRecorder, and because of his intensive use, and the fact that he needed […]
There’s a lot of hype at the moment over what Microsoft’s Origami device is going to be. As far as I can see so far it looks like it’s going to be a small handheld/tablet PC. Somehow I wonder if the device will live up to the expectations the hype is generating. Especially as the […]
How many times has this happened to you? You’re working on some code and everything seems right. It’s a really simple bit of code. But it doesn’t work. So you check it over again – it looks fine. You can’t understand why it won’t work. You check it over and over and you just can’t […]
Check out this Virtual Earth Technology Preview. Drive a car through the streets of Seattle or San Francisco. The database for Seattle contains 10 million images! You can search for businesses and see them on an aerial map. But the cool bit is how you can drive around the map. According to Scoble the guys […]
As most of you know, we are based in the UK. Those that have called us on the phone will also know that we have a US phone number. It is listed on our contact page. That phone number comes straight through to us here in the UK. We don’t have an office in the […]
We’ve just re-released our ClipMagic product as freeware! ClipMagic extends the Windows clipboard by keeping all the items you copy to the clipboard and making them quickly available to paste back into other applications. I depend on ClipMagic when I’m copying and pasting bits of text around the place. Without it you only have access […]