World Pool Championships
If you’re into Pool, watch out for Jonni Fulcher in the 2007 World Pool Championships 3rd to 11th November. We are proud to be one of his sponsors. So good luck Jonni!
Category: General
Excessive Packaging
What is it with the packaging you get computer stuff in? This is that horrible thick plastic stuff. You almost need a hacksaw to get into it. I just about managed with a pen knife. And you have to be careful – this stuff is sharp. There’s more plastic in the packaging than the product […]
The Excel 2007 Bug Explained
If you haven’t already heard about the Excel bug, open up Excel 2007 and try multiplying 77.1 with 850: =77.1*850 Clearly that should give you 65,535. But Excel 2007 returns 100,000. Oops. It turns out it’s just a presentational bug. The displayed result is wrong, but the underlying value is correct. If you were to […]
Direct Access Discount Day
There’s a great deal on Direct Access, one of my favourite apps, over on Bits du Jour today. 40% off. Today only. Go grab it. Direct Access lets you assign textual abbreviations to applications and other actions on your PC. Say you want to open Microsoft Word, you can just type “word” wherever you are, […]
I work 24X7 for no pay! Got a job?
Did you know Macro Scheduler has a résumé? Check it out here: I work 24X7 for no pay! Got a job? Know anyone who needs an employee like that (well, who doesn’t)? Please pass it on.
Beware of Cheap and Expensive Imitations
I just stumbled across a couple of posts in another automation product’s forum where someone was asking how to perform date calculations in their automation routines. In Macro Scheduler you can add or subtract days to a date with one line of code. E.g.: Sub>date,1 Or, for more advanced date calculations and formatting, you can […]
Friday Fun
Edauthier posted a script to the forum which invokes Merlin the Wizard with a little message for you. I had to make a few small changes. I also compiled it into an EXE. Here’s the code. Download a zip file containing the EXE. Just run it. Enjoy.
AppNavigator – Empowering Ordinary Users
Received this nice email today, and just had to share it. Emphasis mine: Dear Marcus Having visited your web site over the past few months and analysed the on-line demo’s, I was convinced that your product would help me in shortening the time I had to spend on one particular aspect of my business, so […]
Macro Scheduler Std (Home) Free with TrialPay
Did you know there’s now a way you can get a free copy of Macro Scheduler Std (Home/Non-commercial Edition)? And it doesn’t involve cracks! We’ve teamed up with TrialPay to offer Macro Scheduler Standard for free. TrialPay is a new service that offers you software for free as a reward for signing up for a […]
ItLocation Review
Looking at our referrer logs it seems we get quite a few visitors linking through from our listing at: http://www.itlocation.com/en/software/prd46729,,.htm But I notice there’s no user review yet. Care to add one?