Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
This is the 10th commandment of system administration according to Brian Warshawsky’s article “Ten Commandments of system administration” over at NewsForge. I couldn’t agree more. You’ll find the article with links to the other nine commandments here. These articles are for Linux administrators so much of the content and the example scripts won’t be much […]
Tim Jones emailed me to point out an error in my keyboard shortcut article. Tim is a proper keyboard junky. Not even sure he has a mouse! ___________________ > SHIFT-RIGHT on its own just moves the cursor to the end of the > word and then to the next word and so on. Reverse it […]
What has Macro Scheduler got to do with Zebra fish? Well, it seems Macro Scheduler was used to automate some of the experiments written about in this book: The Zebrafish: Cellular and Developmental Biology Amazing huh? Macro Scheduler has been used for all sorts of incredible things. Unfortunately I’m not always able to get permission […]
Ever since Macro Scheduler has supported VBScript it has been possible to control Internet Explorer directly via it’s ActiveX interface. Here are some examples: http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=1511 http://www.mjtnet.com/usergroup/viewtopic.php?t=1461 However, this approach requires a fair amount of coding and, for complex IE scripting, a good understanding of the Document Object Model. That’s why we developed WebRecorder. WebRecorder is […]