Archive: October 2006

“See” the Screen with Image Recognition

October 11, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

I love the Image Recognition functions in Macro Scheduler 9.0. They make it easy to automate anything. I made a quick and dirty demo showing how to use the Image Recognition functions in v9 to automate a remote Citrix session. You can watch the demo here. Update: The video was produced way back in v9 […]

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Macro Scheduler 9.0 Beta

October 5, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements

Macro Scheduler 9.0 Beta has just been made available for testing to registered users. For details on how to download and for a list of new features check out the beta forum. As you can see, Macro Scheduler now has a new icon. Yes, in a way, this is a sad day. The grey, trusty […]

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We Love Ex-Users Too!

September 26, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

I think it says a lot when an ex-user still raves about our software. I saw this on a Technology Forum: “I don’t know about free ones, but my favorite windows app ever was Macro Scheduler (I only say “was” because I am no longer a windows user). …. If you get the advanced version […]

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Macro’d Britney?

September 25, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

Every now and then when I’m checking out our web server logs I stumble across an unusual referrer. Today I was surprised to see a referral from a Britney Spears fansite. With a quick glance over my shoulder to make sure no one was looking I clicked the link and checked it out. I discovered […]

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Wwwhy?

September 22, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

One of my pet peeves is when I hear newsreaders and TV presenters reading out website addresses and pronouncing the www prefix. Websites actually don’t need the www prefix these days. Reading out www is awkward, and wastes oxygen. Newsreaders don’t need to stumble and stammer over that cumbersome triplet of letters. E.g. if you […]

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Running UI Automation Routines Concurrently

September 15, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Automation

Macro Scheduler is able to automate other applications by simulating what a user does. There are some exceptions – e.g. it is possible to automate Internet Explorer and Microsoft Office applications through their COM interfaces. But for the vast majority of applications the only way to automate them is by simulating user input and manipulating […]

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Vote for Macro Scheduler

September 9, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in Announcements

Macro Scheduler has been nominated for the Epsilon award which will be presented at the European Shareware Conference in Cambridge (UK) in November. Please show your support and cast your vote here. Thanks!

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Word to PDF

September 8, 2006 by Marcus Tettmar in General

For Office 2007 Microsoft had been planning to add the ability to output documents to PDF files. Unfortunately Adobe got a bit upset and claimed that Microsoft were in breach of their license to use the PDF format. To avoid costly legal battles Microsoft have agreed to remove the ability for Office 2007 to save […]

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