Macro Recording and Automating Windows with Macro Scheduler – Tips & News
I’ve seen quite a lot of requests lately from people wanting to know how to extract text from web pages. Macro Scheduler’s optional WebRecorder add-on simplifies the automation of web pages and includes functions for extracting tables, text or HTML from web page elements. WebRecorder’s Tag Extraction wizard makes it easy to create the code. […]
As noted yesterday I have been waiting on Twitter to provide xAuth access. They declined, saying it was not appropriate. I’m not really sure why. No matter, I decided to make a small DLL to simplify Tweeting from Macro Scheduler. It uses the full oAuth interface. Implementing oAuth in Macro Scheduler code would require lots […]
A while back I posted an article showing how to Tweet via Twitter‘s API. It uses basic authentication which Twitter plan to turn off in the near future. The alternative, oAuth is awkward for desktop based apps, but xAuth is now available and should be doable in Macro Scheduler. I have requested xAuth access from […]
One of my Windows XP systems installed an automatic update last night when I shut it down. This morning I was presented with this: As I understand it this is as a result of an EU competition law decision. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? On the one hand it seems […]
Here’s a quick and simple proof of concept for running Macro Scheduler macros via the web and having their output displayed in the user’s browser: 1) If you don’t already have a Windows based web server with PHP running, download and install WAMPServer. It’s easy. 2) Create a simple PHP script which takes an EXE […]
Way back in the deep and distant past when the Internet was new and Bill Gates thought it was just a passing fad, I remember reading about a Cola vending machine on a University campus that some frivolous young boffins hooked up to the ‘net so that you could check its inventory from anywhere in […]
Some of you may remember that we had some issues with Internet Explorer 6 support when we released our new web site. I made some negative comments about IE6. And I was being polite. Unfortunately IE6 is still in use in millions of companies and, as I mentioned in that last post, some 35% of […]
If you’re one of those who has heard of Twitter but just doesn’t quite “get it” yet you should find Scott Hanselman’s How To Twitter – First Steps and a Twitter Glossary useful. It explains what Twitter is, why it’s useful and how to tweet. I didn’t get it at first. I wasn’t quite sure […]
I see IE7 has been released. Haven’t installed it yet, but I do have an early beta version running on another PC and found that a bit clunky. I’m a Firefox fan though, so I’ve just downloaded and installed Firefox 2 RC3. I like it. The interface has been given a subtle update but it […]
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 […]