Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Coinciding nicely with our 10 year anniversary, Macro Scheduler 9.1 was released today. I guess version 10 would be a more apt label, but this is not a major release – more a maintenance update with a few bonus extras thrown in: Fixes: Possibly fixed random “Cannot open Clipboard” errors Fixed an issue with dialog […]
In case you didn’t already know it, Macro Scheduler will be 10 years old this year. In fact, I had a quick look through our old sales records the other day and discovered that we sold the first ever copy of Macro Scheduler on 1st May 1997. So 1st May this year will be a […]
Some dirty little spammer appears to have used valid mjtnet.com email addresses for the reply-to address of a recent spamming campaign. We’re getting dozens of mail failures for emails we didn’t send out, many of which are advertising a certain men’s pharmaceutical product. Nothing to do with us. What can be done? Not a lot. […]
Nice to see Macro Scheduler listed on microsoft.com in The Vista Application Compatibility list: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/933305 Feels quite an achievement that we are one of the first 800 apps to be listed. On a global level that feels quite good and I believe demonstrates our commitment to future proofing our software and to staying several steps […]
In my last post I showed you how to write an Image Recognition script in Macro Scheduler to automate a remote Citrix session. I demonstrated how to use Image Recognition functions to look for screen objects and create an Outlook email. Well, in this demo I show you how to automate the exact same process […]
What is Image Recognition? Update. Image Recognition has been vastly improved and simplified since this article was written and in v13 we introduced an Image Recognition Code Wizard. Watch this video to see how simple it is. Image Recognition allows Macro Scheduler to find a bitmap (needle) in another, larger, bitmap (haystack) and return its […]
There’s a new beta version of Direct Access available from our friends at Nagarsoft. Regular readers will probably know how much I love this productivity tool. Direct Access lets you define keyboard abbreviations for commands, applications and folders etc. Once an abbreviation is set up you can type it wherever you are, whatever application is […]
Some regular mjtnet.com forumites may have noticed that forum member SkunkWorks has recently become pgriffin. For those of you that don’t know, Skunkworks, according to Wikipedia, “is a term used in engineering and technical fields to describe a group within an organisation given a high degree of autonomy and unhampered by bureaucracy, tasked with working […]
Did you know it is now possible to purchase Macro Scheduler in Romania? Selling software in some Eastern European countries is difficult for two main reasons: 1) The local USD exchange rate means the regular USD price is much more than most can afford. 2) Credit card penetration is low. These factors have lead to […]
AppNavigator is a powerful new tool that lets you create automation routines graphically, without any need to write code. With this software you can create processes by highlighting screen objects and assigning actions to them. Any process can be automated based on simple graphics – by “seeing” the screen. Just show AppNavigator what to watch […]