Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Wells Anderson posts: “Image Recognition is a brilliant new feature in 9.0. It allows you to write macros that press buttons that are “invisible” or have unpredictable locations. For example, add-ins to MS Outlook and other MS Office applications may have no menu equivalents and cannot be found using PushButton or FindWindowWithText. Image Recognition lets […]
Just for the heck of it I set up a Macro Scheduler Lens on Squidoo a while back. I didn’t expect much to come of it but recently I’ve noticed a small number of referrals from it, and its lens rank has jumped up to 4,538. Not bad considering it was as low as 20,000+. […]
I love the Image Recognition functions in Macro Scheduler 9.0. They make it easy to automate anything. I made a quick and dirty demo showing how to use the Image Recognition functions in v9 to automate a remote Citrix session. You can watch the demo here. Update: The video was produced way back in v9 […]
Here’s a sneaky peak at Macro Scheduler 9.0 running under Windows Vista:
I think it says a lot when an ex-user still raves about our software. I saw this on a Technology Forum: “I don’t know about free ones, but my favorite windows app ever was Macro Scheduler (I only say “was” because I am no longer a windows user). …. If you get the advanced version […]
Every now and then when I’m checking out our web server logs I stumble across an unusual referrer. Today I was surprised to see a referral from a Britney Spears fansite. With a quick glance over my shoulder to make sure no one was looking I clicked the link and checked it out. I discovered […]
One of my pet peeves is when I hear newsreaders and TV presenters reading out website addresses and pronouncing the www prefix. Websites actually don’t need the www prefix these days. Reading out www is awkward, and wastes oxygen. Newsreaders don’t need to stumble and stammer over that cumbersome triplet of letters. E.g. if you […]
For Office 2007 Microsoft had been planning to add the ability to output documents to PDF files. Unfortunately Adobe got a bit upset and claimed that Microsoft were in breach of their license to use the PDF format. To avoid costly legal battles Microsoft have agreed to remove the ability for Office 2007 to save […]
Here’s a useless bit of info: It’s a Bank Holiday here in the UK. Wikipedia has the gen. It doesn’t mean quite what it does in the USA. But while the banks may be closed for business it’s pretty much business as usual for me here at MJT Net Ltd. It’s an ordinary Monday throughout […]
In my last post I said I would provide some tips on getting the best out of Google Groups and finding what you’re looking for. But first off let’s start with a few general search tips. Google themselves provide some helpful guides on using the regular Google search engine: Basic Tips: http://www.google.com/help/basics.html Advanced Search: http://www.google.com/help/refinesearch.html […]