Howdy %Name%,
Around 27 years ago, to get my undergraduate degree, I had to take an “Intro to Computers” class.
We had a lab assignment that involved navigating to a few web pages, gathering information, and then writing a “paper” to turn in.
I was working away when I happened to notice the guy next to me had a pad of paper out and was looking at a website and writing things down.
Out of curiosity I asked him what he was doing. His reply left me speechless:
I’m writing this down so I can then open MS word and type it up.
Not only had the kid never heard of “cut and paste” but, for some reason, also didn’t realize you could have more than one program open at a time❗
In the following 5 minutes I taught him copy, paste, and Alt+tab for switching between windows.
I realized then that we all have various levels of knowledge. And that a few minutes of time could really help change people’s lives!
The other day Isaias was tutoring Irfan on adding the Debugger to AHK Script Maker.
We all agreed, Irfan learned in minutes what would have taken hours (more likely days) on his own❗
It’s what all our AHK Hero members get to experience every week❗
Now on with the show…
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How I Stream Content
During an AHK Hero call a few weeks back we got to talking about how I easily watch movies, play podcasts, etc. on any TV in our house, or on my phone.
I use Plex on my main computer to make it accessible…
Using Plex to share Media to TVs and Phones
Don’t make this Mistake with AI
If you’re using AI to process tasks, keep in mind that not all file formats are equal!
In this video I walk through how a client had set up AI to accept PDF and then he uses AI to extract information. The interesting thing is I think, with a little work, he could avoid using AI entirely!
Don’t Create the Problem
Are you running the Current version of AHK❓
Years ago I used to go months without checking for an update to AutoHotkey.
It occurred to me: Why not have our AHK Editor inform people when there are new versions available❓
In this video we show you how we achieved this (and dive into web scraping).
Updates to AHK Script Maker
Speaking of our AHK editor, in this video we walk through the below updates:
- Improved search behavior across included files with the ability to jump to specific line numbers.
- Planned enhancement to search all open tabs/files regardless of the active tab
- Tab system reworked using a single Scintilla control
- Fixed DPI scaling issues in tab controls by correcting height calculations.
- Added user-configurable icon sizes (16, 24, and 32 pixels).
- Integrated Windows context-menu support (“Edit with Script Maker”),
AHK Script Maker Updates
Improving People’s Lives: Story #73
This week I (somewhat) killed my computer so I’ve been using a laptop I haven’t used in ~5 years. Thankfully all the important files were under DropBox and I was able to create our “fake drives”
Thankfully I even had my “desktop” stored under DropBox so it’s easy to see what I was working on! 😁
📚 What we’re reading
- Amazon will now let you without DRM
- Cool things you can do with your Android phone’s USB port
- How to disable ads in Windows 11
🤖 AI News that you Need to Know
- Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Express and Adobe Acrobat in ChatGPT
- Chat GPT images got a major upgrade
- Top model usage through OpenRouter this month for Programming
⚡️Productivity tips:
Windows+I will open Windows settings
🤣 A spot of Humor:
Over Thanksgiving I watched Parenthood with my Father & son. This is still one of my most favorite clips of all time
Parenthood – Grandma’s rollercoaster story
What we 🅰utomated this week with AutoHotkey #113
This week we dove into 23 different AutoHotkey tools and showed how we’re using them to automate everything from media players to Excel workflows.
In this week’s video I walk you through some of our favorite enhancements like the ActiveDPIAdjuster, our custom media player controls, and how we’re integrating AutoHotkey with various applications to eliminate those mind-numbing repetitive tasks.
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #113
Clients say…
With The-Automator, I learned to use AutoHotkey, in order to automate otherwise tedious and repetitive tasks. Thanks to Joe Glines and all his guests, I am now able to automate boring tasks, “if only my mower could respond to AutoHotkey”. — Claude Paga
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 500 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
- Comparing Cloned objects verse Copied Objects / Strings
- Script Review: Adding Debugger in AHK Script Maker
- 5 Git commandsthat feel like Magic
- Using a Ternary to easily apply changes based on logic (instead of using an “if”)
- Comparing strings, case sensitivity, how to handle when in map, etc.
- Using SendTo for passing multiple files to a script
They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.)
🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Don’t tell them how great you are; Tell them how great you will make them feel❗
- The best way to predict the future is to create it . — Peter Drucker
- Learn a HotKey a day to keep inefficiency away! — Joe Glines
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Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff
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P.S. It’s truly amazing how much we can improve ourselves if we try. I have the mindset of “ABL” Always Be Learning. It’s one thing I think all of use in the AHK Hero club strive for❗
