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I was listening to a Dan Kennedy seminar where he was addressing people that had flown to a seminar and he was telling them just how “weird” they were because the vast, vast majority of people spend less than $20 a year on books (and most of those are gifts) let-alone spend their hard-earned money to attend a seminar.
That’s when I had a revelation about YOU .
You’re a “strange being” because you invest your time, energy, and money in personal development and learning how to work smarter, not harder.
When I worked in Corporate America I introduced hundreds of people to AutoHotkey. Nearly all replied with what I called the “Great, thanks; Bye” response.
They all saw the value Automation could bring, saw that the code wasn’t difficult to write and then NEVER bothered to learn a thing❗
Over the years I’ve spoken with hundreds of AutoHotkey users. The one thing we ALL have in common is a “I’m going to get this done” attitude. It reminds me of my favorite Ayn Rand quote
The question isn’t who is going to let me it’s who is going to stop me
Whether you ever become an AHK Hero member, purchase a course, or have us , I am honored to be helping you be more productive!
Now on with the show…
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Getting Text Out of Programs
Last week I released our updated script to get the Text out of programs. This tool relies on AHK v2 and UIA but doesn’t need any knowledge to use. You just move your mouse over an element and click your hotkey. Yes, it’s that easy! You can check it out in this video.
How to Easily get Text Under your Mouse in most programs for AutoHotkey v1 or v2
Deciding on an Approach
A couple weeks back we were deciding how to solve a client’s issue and I realized, even though I’ve used Window Hooks, Shell Hooks, and Messages, I didn’t have a clear understanding of when I should use one over the other. I asked Isaias to join me in this discussion which helped clarify the pros and cons of each approach.
Deciding between Window Hooks, Shell Hooks, and Messages
Toggle a Window between Two Monitors
Our #1 download is, by far, our Window Snipping tool. I have the feeling Toggle between monitors will be our #2. It makes it super-easy to “throw” a program to the other monitor. I highly recommend you give it a try. You can check it out in this video.
How to Easily Toggle Programs Between Two Monitors with AutoHotkey
How to Greatly Simplify User’s tools
We’re updating AutomateMyTask to a v2 script and I realized our GUI was quite complex. We decided to approach the problem in steps which helps people focus on what matters (when it matters). We discussed the benefits of this and how to take this approach in this video.
Faking a Wizard❗ Advanced AutoHotkey GUI Tips & tricks
What we’re reading
- How to Monitor Your Data Usage on Windows 11
- How to Force Dark Mode on Every Website in Chrome
- How to Turn off Windows 11 Start Menu Ads
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- There’s been a Recall on Recall
- Clean up audio for free with Adobe Podcast AI
- Write a book in minutes
- Stability AI releases a sound generator
⚡️Productivity tips: Ctrl + F5
Hit Ctrl + F5 to perform a hard refresh of the current webpage, bypassing the cache and reloading all resources.
A spot of Humor Freaking Hilarious!
I suspect that even AI will not be able to understand them anytime soon…
Scots swears in fury at Amazon Echo as Alexa can’t understand his accent
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #48
This week we focused on a few scripts, and client work, so we didn’t have as many AutoHotkey files that we’d worked on.
What we automated with AutoHotkey -Episode #48
Testimonial
The Automator is an amazing resource I use it weekly. — David Burk
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 270 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Creating ability to “toggle system tray icons” in multiple scripts
- Creating more functional AHK GUIs
- Updating CDO email sender to v2 was “tricky” (Accessing & enumeration was complex)
- Voice Access / Voice Shortcuts
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
- Investment in knowledge pays the best dividends — Benjamin Franklin
- Automation is inevitable, and the way we embrace it will define our future. Let’s make sure it’s a future we’re proud of — Elon Musk
- Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend — Theophrastus
- I will always hire a lazy person to do a hard job, because they will always find an easy way to do it — Bill Gates
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P.S. I hope you wear the “being different” as a badge of honor (like I do). As Dan Kennedy always says, if you’re doing what everyone else is doing, you’re doing something wrong! Learning AutoHotkey is a great way to differentiate yourself and ensure you’re ahead of the others!
