Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Some pre-sales questions we get seem to suggest that the user lacks basic Windows skills. What surprises me is that these questions are often from people working in company IT departments. Their ability to comprehend how to automate something appears to be diminished by their inability to use a PC effectively. Perhaps I’m being unfair […]
If you’re not using more than one monitor, you are missing out big time. For one thing, some research by the University of Utah found that using two monitors increases productivity 44%. There’s a good summary and more comment on this on the coding horror blog. A huge benefit of multiple monitors for Macro Scheduler […]
An experienced Macro Scheduler scripter was recently trying to figure out why the following code wasn’t doing what he expected: If>seg_1=05 Let>monLtr=mm Endif Apparantly monLtr was always being set to 05. This told me that “mm” must have been a variable which had earlier been set to 05. But my friend said “I’ve looked […]
I recently stumbled upon this series of video tutorials on Regular Expressions: Regular Expressions for Dummies If you want to know how to get some power of out of Macro Scheduler‘s new RegEx function you might find the above free video tutorial useful. One resource seen in the video that I didn’t know about is […]
While many of our customers use Macro Scheduler for automating key business processes I would hazard a guess that a large number of people are using the tool to automate smaller tasks related to their own individual work. In themselves these tasks may not appear too important, and may not even be visible to the […]
If you were down in the woods yesterday you may have been in for a surprise. For in the New Forest, Southern England, you might have seen 400 participants of the first Questars Adventure Race of 2009, running, biking and canoeing. Three of those people were sponsored by MJT Net and wearing our lovely new MJT Net Gearhead […]
I just upgraded to IE8 on a new Vista desktop with UAC enabled out of the box. Now, WebRecorder macros and VBScript macros which automate Internet Explorer fail to work unless Macro Scheduler is run as Admin. IE’s Protected Mode is turned off, and “Allow scripting of Internet Explorer webbrowser control” is enabled. But if […]
Some of you may remember that we had some issues with Internet Explorer 6 support when we released our new web site. I made some negative comments about IE6. And I was being polite. Unfortunately IE6 is still in use in millions of companies and, as I mentioned in that last post, some 35% of […]
You’ve seen film trailers, now there are software trailers. Here’s a 30 second Macro Scheduler Trailer courtesy of Tucows.com:
If you’re one of those who has heard of Twitter but just doesn’t quite “get it” yet you should find Scott Hanselman’s How To Twitter – First Steps and a Twitter Glossary useful. It explains what Twitter is, why it’s useful and how to tweet. I didn’t get it at first. I wasn’t quite sure […]