Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
Over here in the UK, climate change and the environment are finally well and truly on the agenda. Green issues get a mention in almost every TV evening news bulletin and our political leaders, gearing up for the next general election, are giving green policies great importance. But this time it appears to be more […]
The trouble with a Tablet PC is the lack of a keyboard. Ok, you can use the stylus, but some applications rely on awkward keystroke combinations which just aren’t readily available on a Tablet PC. There’s one particular website I often access with my Tablet PC which never seems to remember my password, and also […]
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 […]