Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Check out this screen magnifier, written by Dick Lockey in only 34 lines of Macro Scheduler code. Paste it into a macro, hit run and then as you move the mouse around your screen you’ll see a 5x magnification of the cursor area. Dialog>Dialog1 Caption=5X Magnify Width=800 Height=500 Top=500 Left=48 EndDialog>Dialog1 Show>Dialog1 LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC1,Dialog1.handle LibFunc>user32,GetDC,HDC3,0 […]
One of my Windows XP systems installed an automatic update last night when I shut it down. This morning I was presented with this: As I understand it this is as a result of an EU competition law decision. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand it seems […]
Are you a contractor, consultant, freelancer or value added reseller who knows and uses Macro Scheduler and works in a specific industry, like Health Care, Education or Manufacturing? If you are I’d like to hear from you. I’m looking at opportunities for Macro Scheduler in vertical markets and would like to find people with industry […]
Phil Pendlebury has written a really handy little tool for quickly uploading files from Windows Explorer, and he’s built it using Macro Scheduler. With his FTP Uploader tool installed you can right click on any file and select Send To->FTP Uploader to quickly upload it to any FTP site. It will remember the FTP server […]
Here’s a quick and simple proof of concept for running Macro Scheduler macros via the web and having their output displayed in the user’s browser: 1) If you don’t already have a Windows based web server with PHP running, download and install WAMPServer. It’s easy. 2) Create a simple PHP script which takes an EXE […]
As you probably know, we’re running a T-Shirt design contest where you could win an Amazon Kindle worth $259. Some people have had problems sending us a link to their T-Shirt design so I checked it out and found that the process for getting a public link to your shirt is not particularly obvious. So […]
Happy New Year everyone! What do you do when you’re snowed in and can’t get to work? Get creative that’s what! Enter our T-Shirt design contest and win an Amazon Kindle! Yes, just in case you missed it, we’re running a T-Shirt design contest. Design a new MJT Net T-Shirt and you could win an […]
What would be the perfect gift? What is the one thing in such short supply? You might say it’s money. You could be right, but more precious than that in my opinion is time. And of course many will say that in business time is money anyway. Wouldn’t it be great if someone could give […]
Crumbs, is it really already December? Christmas always seems to creep up on me unprepared. Always so much to do and organise. Most people will be winding down and spending time with friends and family. But in our modern 24×7 culture many businesses still keep running. Web sites and servers still need monitoring, reports generating, […]
Over at Zazzle you can find a range of T-shirts and merchandise sporting the MJT Net Gearhead logo. The really cool thing about Zazzle is that you can customize the products and come up with your own creations. You can add text and even other images. So we thought it would be fun to get the creative juices […]