Howdy %Name%,
I enjoyed federal employees squirm in regards to Elon’s email to them asking for 5 bullet-points as to what they had done in the past week.
It’s basically a “pulse-check” yet people are panicked!
Someone asked me if I was going to ask our employees for a list of 5 things they did. I said it would be more like what 50 things they did! LOL
But I did think it is a fun exercise to get us thinking so I have a challenge for you %name%.
What 5 AHK scripts did you use most last week?
If you’re wondering which ones I used most, you can check out this video.
My 5 AHK scripts I used most last week Thanks Elon!
Now on with the show…
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Simple Webcam Reminder
If you’ve ever recorded a video only to watch it later and realize your webcam covered a critical part of the screen, the Webcam Reminder script is for you!
In this video I explain hour our Webcam Reminder saves you from making this critical error!
Simple Webcam Reminder for those that Record their Desktop and share a Webcam
Fun with ️
During this video Isaias and I had a lot of fun showing how you probably have a hotkey that you’re not using.
We also covered other cool ways to double/triple the number of hotkeys you have!
Showing mulitple ways to define hotkeys for an unused key on your Keyboard
Add thes to All of your Scripts (We did!)
Quite a while ago I had mentioned to Isaias that we should add the ability to open a running script’s folder to our scripts.
Sometimes I need to share it, inspect something else, jump to the ini file, etc.
I knew it would be helpful but I didn’t realize just how handy it is! So we went through all of our working scripts and added it to our scripts (as well as link to the video and other info).
In AutoHotkey v2 it is easier than you think! Check it out in this video.
Easily Adding Open Folder and Video link to system Tray Icon in an AHK V2 Script
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is Amazing
Last week I spent a few hours using the new Claude model to create some very complex AutoHotkey V2 scripts. It did a phenomenal job! If you haven’t used it yet, I highly recommend you give it a try!
And, on that note, our updated Claude API class let’s you add a “thinking” parameter to let you tell AI how much “thought” you want it to do. Check it out in this video.
Update to Claude AHK Class: Now has 3.7 Sonnet & “Thinking” parameter
If you’re new to working with classes, check our Functions, Objects & Classes course (and don’t forget we offer a double-your-money back guarantee!)
Pin a script to Windows 11 start menu
Do you miss being able to pin a script to your start menu? Microsoft made it ridiculously difficult (but not impossible) to do. I show you how in this video.
How to Pin a file to Taskbar in Windows 11
Improving People’s Lives: Story #39
One of our client’s was asked to monitor a web-email account and to check it twice a week.
While we could setup Outlook to go pull from it, I asked the person in charge of the account to just setup an “auto-forward” so every-email that comes through, automatically, gets forwarded to my client.
Easy- Peezy!
What we’re reading
- What are Virtual Machines and how do they work❓
- Ways to Improve Your Cell Signal at home
- Miss your Blackberry? Physical Keyboards for Android
- Earbuds that can charge your phone?
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Amazon reveals Alexa+ with Better Language Processing
- Quora’s Poe now lets users create and share custom AI-powered apps
- Unstract: AI Document Parser
- Open AI launched GPT 4.5 (however it is not cheap !)
⚡️Productivity tips:
Ctrl + Shift + N : Create a new folder in the current directory.
A spot of Humor
Did you hear the joke about the unmade bed❓
Of course not, I haven’t made it yet….
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #77
This week we had a lot of scripts we worked on. In this video I walk through 145 AHK scripts we worked on.
What we automated with AutoHotkey #77
A couple weeks ago Connie, an AHK Hero member, had mentioned it would be handy to have all the links to the scripts that were mentioned / shown on-screen during the video. That idea was great but it was going to create a lot of extra work for me.
Yesterday I realized I could create a simple script to monitory the clipboard and “log” all text that had “the-Automator” in it. So I got on Claude and created a little script that did just that! So, in videos description you can find links to the 43 scripts that we have downloads for.
Client’s say…
Holy shit❗ This is amazing — Dr. Kamran J.
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 381 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
- FileCreateShortcut & Run commands both require Absolute path
- Modularizing your Code: Tips & Tricks
- Breaking out of Loops without exiting the script
- Using Shellhooks verse creating a child window or Popup
- How to prevent cached responses when doing HttpRequest?
- Not creating multiple copies of code but ensuring the right version is used
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
- The thing most people like least is a mirror — Dan Kennedy
- Systems let the Ordinary to do the Extraordinary — Joe Glines
- Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me — Carol Burnett
- If you want better results, forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead — James Cleary
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P.S. DOGE is getting amazing things done by mostly “cutting” programs. That is one of my favorite ways to be more efficient (focusing on less) but they are also working on updating archaic systems.
If you have older Windows-based software, AutoHotkey is an amazing at connecting and automating it. We know of 20 ways to automate programs with AutoHotkey!
Why not take a look at my calendar and book a call where we can see just how easy it will be?
