Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
If you’re in the UK watch out for next month’s issue of PC Plus magazine (issue number 266). A full, unrestricted, licensed, copy of Macro Scheduler 8.0 will be on the cover disc. And inside you’ll find a discount code for version 10 – the latest and greatest.
There’s a new Software Deal of the Day site about town. It is called, appropriately enough, Software Deal of the Day and it can be found at www.software-dod.com. Each day the site features a different software title with a juicy big one-day-only discount. Unlike other similar sites they also offer a “Second Chance Discount” after […]
We made the front page of Modern Applications News print edition, with the headline “Software Saves $320 Per Day”. Here’s the article in their online edition: Software Makes the Front Office as Efficient as the Shop Floor
James Isaac Tettmar was born Friday 18th January at 0938 GMT. Mother and baby both well. A great start to the year! 🙂
The editorial comment in the latest issue of Computing magazine discusses how IT may hold the key to preventing a recession: “Financial institutions are looking for IT-enabled efficiency to help them through a sticky patch” Regular Macro Scheduler users don’t need to be told how much automation can boost productivity and increase efficiency. Just look […]
A few days ago one of our customers reported an issue while trying to install msNet – Macro Scheduler Remote Controller. During install their virus scanner reported a virus in one of the files. I was quite sure it was a false positive as we check all our distributions with two well known anti-virus products. […]
I am so excited about the new features in Macro Scheduler 10 – coming January. I’m currently running a pre beta copy now. One of the most amazing improvements is the optimisation of the FindImagePos function. We’ve made a 30-50 fold speed increase. It is now almost instantaneous. Average time to locate a bitmap at […]
If you work regularly on large macro files you should consider using a version control system. Remember that time when you made a few small changes to that 2000 line macro and it stopped working and you spent ages trying to figure out what you did and get it working again, losing a lot of […]
A customer just reported this issue: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?p=17969 Seems Kaspersky must be intercepting emulated keystrokes and is slowing their progress. I’ve emailed Kaspersky to ask for a resolution. Until then if you are running Kaspersky Internet Suite you need to close it down completely to prevent this issue. Quite rightly you should be running a security […]
Sometimes I wonder if Macro Scheduler has outgrown its name. “Macro” seems too small a word, and “Scheduler” is just one small feature. It’s so much more than these two words suggest now. When version one was released there were less than 20 commands, purely for simulating user input and manipulating windows. No script editor, […]