Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
“The Office” fans will love these fun Microsoft UK training videos with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant: http://download.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2751040_200.mov http://download.ifilm.com/qt/portal/2751041_200.mov From: Inside Microsoft. I understand The Office made it over to the USA too, so hopefully this isn’t completely lost on my US readers. But even if you’ve never heard of The Office I think you’ll […]
It’s always fascinating and useful to find out how other people use Macro Scheduler. As you probably know I frequently post Success Stories here on this blog. There’s also a really interesting topic on the forums, here, where people can post information about how Macro Scheduler helps them. I’ve just scanned through the forum post […]
As a company that strives to provide good support I find it frustrating when we receive requests for support that make it hard for us to give it. What do I mean? Well here’s an example. The other day I received an email that had no subject line but a short message. The sender had […]
Lots of people are saying Vista won’t make it for the current launch Schedule. Robert McLaws at Longhorn Blogs says Vista Needs More Time. Scoble agrees. I say get the product right, even if it means a delay and a short term hit on stock price. This is a major new operating system after all.
I suppose cracks are an occupational hazard. Sooner or later someone is going to crack your software. It is just a fact of life. There’s actually no way to prevent it. Some protection methods are better than others but the best hackers will always find a way round them. There’s a limit to how much […]
I read this interesting article the other day: “Don’t give in to feature demands!”. It is true that we can’t always add all the features everyone wants. If we added everything ever requested the product would get bloated in all directions. There’s no point adding a complicated new feature if only 1% of users will […]
A new version of WebRecorder is now available with the following changes: – New function ContainsText added to IEAuto.DLL. This function simply determines whether or not the specified text is contained within the body of the page. This is a quick and easy way to determine an outcome and is ideal for automated testing. – […]
Some nice reviews of Macro Scheduler at SoftPile, here. And some great reviews at Download.com too. Some not so great ones too though 🙁 Some are reasonably balanced. After all, I believe in the saying “Horses for Courses” – one can’t expect everyone to like our software. But I was a bit upset about that […]
Yikes, it’s hot here in SW England. Someone told me today will be hottest day on record since 1911! But in the post this morning was a promotional letter from a company selling solar energy systems touting ways to reduce our heating bills. I can’t see that campaign being overly successful right now!
This one has bugged me for years – how to automate activating a system tray icon. For starters, the System Tray is designed to be manipulated with the mouse. We could send mouse clicks to icons in the system tray but for the fact that icons don’t always appear in the same place in the […]