Howdy,
Today’s my 57th Birthday!
To celebrate, I’m offering 50% off for 57 hours!
So, all of our courses are on sale until 7:00 p.m. CDT on Saturday. You can use the below links which will, automatically, apply the birthday discount!
If you choose to use the discount manually, use this code during checkout: “Joes57bday”
If you’re planning to purchase a course, act now! That 57 hours will end before you know it!
AutoHotkey V2 Courses
- v1 to v2 Make the switch to v2 painless Learn more here
- Intermediate AHK v2 Getting beyond the basics Learn more here
- Intro AHK v2 Best course to learn AutoHotkey! Learn more here
- GUIs are easy v2 GUIs in v2 are streamlined and even easier! Learn more here
- Functions, Objects & Classes v1/v2 The best way to jump-start your AHK Programming skills Learn more here
AutoHotkey V1 Courses
- Intro AHK v1 Start learning the basics Learn more here
- HotStrings v1 Text Expansion has never been easier! Learn more here
- Intermediate AHK v1 Getting beyond the basics Learn more here
- GUIs are easy v1 Learn how easy GUIs can be Learn more here
- Functions, Objects & Classes v1/v2 The best way to jump-start your AHK Programming skills Learn more here
- FAQ1 What we wish we knew before we started learning AHK Learn more here
- FAQ2 What we wish we knew when we started learning AHK Learn more here
General Courses
- Intro to DOS Learn how DOS can save your butt! Learn more here
- Rise Above PC Incompetence Learn the basics to get a handle on the most used hotkeys and tricks in Windows Learn more here
- Intro to VSCode Installing, Configuring and Basic Debugging Learn more here
- Intro to RegEx Discover how to manipulate Text with Regular Expressions Learn more here
Now on with the show…
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Ripping Audio from Video
I’m helping a local Mexican restaurant out and downloaded a bunch of YouTube videos of Mexican music for an mp3 player in their parking lot. The mp3 player of course needs mp3 files so I user our Mp3 ripper to quickly extract the mp3 audio from them. This tool is sooo amazing! You can check out the process in this video.
BTW- at the end of the video I discovered a very interesting issue where Explorer was, incorrectly, reporting the length of the video. Do you have any guess as to what was going on❓
How to quickly Convert Videos to mp3 files in bulk
Lessons Learned with OCR with AI
Isaias and I noticed a very interesting thing when using OCR and AI. We document it in this video. If you use AI to examine images you do not want to miss this!
Tip for when Using OCR with AI in your tools / Scripts / Browser
Quick GIT tutorial
One of our AHK Hero members was on a consultation call and wasn’t overly familiar with using GIT so Irfan gave him a quick tutorial. Thankfully our client said he didn’t mind if we shared it so others can learn so you can check out the video here.
Quick Tutorial on using git
Having some Fun with Hotkeys
If you didn’t check this video out yet, you really should! Isaias and I “discovered” an un-used key and then showed multiple ways that you could use it, or others, as a trigger.
Showing mulitple ways to define hotkeys for an unused key on your Keyboard
Improving People’s Lives: Story #37
One of our clients reached out to us saying they were getting hammered with support requests and didn’t have the time to support them in a timely manner. So we put our “thinking caps” on and, in less than 1 day, put together an AI chatbot on their website that will help field a lot of the Frequently Asked Questions.
BTW- I didn’t have a list of FAQs from the client so I just used AI to generate the most likely questions. And then I went in and did my best to write answers! We’re waiting for the client to confirm ours are right but a lot had to do with automation so we should be good to go on most!
What we’re reading
- A Small Change in Chrome will have a big impact for PC users
- Don’t press enter twice in Word; Use Spacing After Instead
- You can now order a Flic Duo Smart Button
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- There’s No Perfect AI Chatbot so do this instead
- 7 ways to use Gemini Advanced
- OpenAI o3-mini
- Open AI Introduces Deep research
⚡️Productivity tips: Navigating Tabs in your Browser
- Ctrl + Tab (or Ctrl + PgDn): Switches to the next open tab.
- Ctrl + Shift + Tab (or Ctrl + PgUp): Switches to the previous open tab
A spot of Humor Super moments from the-Naked gun
The Naked Gun Super Moments
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #74
We had quite a few AutoHotkey files worked on in the last week. You can check them out in this video. Remember, we could be working on your scripts for you! Check our calendar for availability
What we automated with AutoHotkey- Episode #74
Client’s say…
I love your scripts because I don’t have to focus on so many things. I just look at the image and rely on muscle-memory. — Michael N. (Radiologist)
AHK Hero
AHK Hero Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc. Currently we have over 375 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗
You can watch 1 hour a day for a year and not repeat content! That’s a lot of AHK Learning!
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
- Writing to memory instead of file
- Programmatically Determining the Delimiter
- Incorrect “length” being reported by Windows Explorer
- Deciding on customizing input from each program or just selecting text and using the clipboard
- Copying specific files from sub-folders
- Demonstrating resource drain during debug mode
- Context Menu Trigger
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)
️ Quotable quotes
- Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy
- A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve , not by the desire to beat others — Ayn Rand
- There are many tools out there for systematizing your marketing. There are not very many for systematizing your process — Joe Glines
- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance — Derek Bok
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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff
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P.S. I find it hard to believe I’m nearing 60! It sucks being the same age as “old people”. LOL
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