Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
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 […]
MJT Net Ltd, and Macro Scheduler, will be 10 years old this year. The company was officially incorporated on 15th August 1997, though Macro Scheduler itself was launched sometime in March. So 2007 will be a special year for us. When I first created Macro Scheduler back in 1997 I never imagined that it would […]
My sister and her partner are emigrating to New Zealand. Her partner went out there a few weeks ago. In order to ensure his legal and financial affairs could be easily dealt with he gave his mother power of attorney. So he gets to New Zealand and opens a bank account, then asks his mother […]
So I downloaded the final version of Vista last week and I’m now running Vista as my main environment. Am I mad? Let’s see how it goes. Lots of my favourite apps need to be run as admin because they write to the programs folder, or HKLM. For years, developers have made the bad habit […]
Update 26th April 2011: We are now able to offer our customers a discount on Comodo Code Signing certificates through our Partners K Software. For details and coupon code please log into the registered user area. What is Code Signing? In Windows XP when you download an executable file from the Internet the browser checks […]
Someone emailed me a link to a page on a crack site which purported to offer a crack for the Macro Scheduler 8.1 evaluation version. So I fired up Windows 2000 in Virtual PC and downloaded the “crack”. It contained two executable files. I scanned them with AVG Antivirus. One of the files contained a […]
I’ve been thinking about creating an area of the site for people to upload tools they’ve created with Macro Scheduler Pro to. It could be free tools and utilities, or even demo versions of commercial products you’ve created. It would be a great way to demonstrate some of the things Macro Scheduler can do, as […]
Wow it’s been a busy few weeks since we announced the beta. But I’m pleased to say that pretty much all of the issues found so far have been minor UI tweaks. There have been no reported backwards compatible problems with running old scripts and the new functions and scripting features are working well. I’ve […]