AHK Challenge 1 Favorite AHK scripts
A while back I created the below video and challenged a bunch of people to tell me about their favorite 5 AutoHotkey scripts they’ve Created / Worked on
Below are to people that have replied with videos:
Category: AutoHotKey
AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free, open-source macro-creation and automation software for Windows that allows users to automate repetitive tasks. It is driven by a scripting language that was initially aimed at providing keyboard shortcuts, otherwise known as hotkeys, that over time evolved into a full-fledged scripting language.
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Q) Did you hear about the sad ghost that wanted to ride an elevator?
A) He was hoping it would lift his spirits
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FAMOUS ALIBIS by Old Man IF: Excerpt from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
FIFTY-SEVEN FAMOUS ALIBIS by Old Man IF
Excerpt from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
A character analyst compiled a list of the most commonly used alibis. As you read the list, examine yourself carefully, and determine how many of these alibis, if any, are your own property.
- IF I didn’t have a wife and family…
- IF I had enough “pull”…
- IF I had money…
- IF I had a good education…
- IF I could get a job…
- IF I had good health…
- IF I only had time…
- IF times were better…
- IF other people understood me…
- IF conditions around me were only different…
- IF I could live my life over again…
- IF I did not fear what “THEY” would say…
- IF I had been given a chance…
- IF I now had a chance…
- IF other people didn’t “have it in for me”…
- IF nothing happens to stop me…
- IF I were only younger…
- IF I could only do what I want…
- IF I had been born rich…
- IF I could meet “the right people”…
- IF I had the talent that some people have…
- IF I dared assert myself…
- IF I only had embraced past opportunities…
- IF people didn’t get on my nerves…
- IF I didn’t have to keep house and look after the children…
- IF I could save some money…
- IF the boss only appreciated me…
- IF I only had somebody to help me…
- IF my family understood me…
- IF I lived in a big city…
- IF I could just get started…
- IF I were only free…
- IF I had the personality of some people…
- IF I were not so fat…
- IF my talents were known…
- IF I could just get a “break”…
- IF I could only get out of debt…
- IF I hadn’t failed…
- IF I only knew how…
- IF everybody didn’t oppose me…
- IF I didn’t have so many worries…
- IF I could marry the right person…
- IF people weren’t so dumb…
- IF my family were not so extravagant…
- IF I were sure of myself…
- IF luck were not against me…
- IF I had not been born under the wrong star…
- IF it were not true that “what is to be will be”…
- IF I did not have to work so hard…
- IF I hadn’t lost my money…
- IF I lived in a different neighborhood…
- IF I didn’t have a “past”…
- IF I only had a business of my own…
- IF other people would only listen to me…
now for the greatest of them all
IF I had the courage to see myself as I really am, I would find out what is wrong with me, and correct it, then I might have a chance to profit by my mistakes and learn something from the experience of others, for I know that there is something WRONG with me , or I would now be where I WOULD HAVE BEEN IF I had spent more time analyzing my weaknesses, and less time building alibis to cover them.
Building alibis is a deeply rooted habit. Habits are difficult to break, especially when they provide justification for something we do. Plato had this truth in mind when he said, “The first and best victory is to conquer self. To be conquered by self is, of all things, the most shameful and vile.”
Another philosopher had the same thought in mind when he said, “It was a great surprise to me when I discovered that most of the ugliness I saw in others, was but a reflection of my own nature.”
“It has always been a mystery to me,” said Elbert Hubbard, “why people spend so much time deliberately fooling themselves by creating alibis to cover their weaknesses. If used differently, this same time would be sufficient to cure the weakness, then no alibis would be needed.”
🅰HK News / AutoHotkey Newsletter October 19th, 2023
A couple months ago I bought a 35 hp tractor from Cody (a really nice, honest, guy that had done some work for me). When he delivered it he asked me where I’d like it parked and I asked him to park it in our shed.
He started pulling up to the shed and was watching the ROPS (Roll-Over Protection Structures) to make sure it would clear.
It was going to be a very tight fit and Cody said
”I think if we grab a shovel, we can easily make it fit”
The look on my face made him re-think what he’d said. He realized he had “the worlds largest shovel” on the front of the tractor! 🤦🤣🤣🤣
We both had a good laugh but, I assured him, it is a pretty common thing to happen.
Our brains the most brilliant thing in the universe however, at times, we get “locked” into a way of thinking and it is really, really hard to “re-think” the problem to escape out of the situation.
It’s why it is nearly impossible to proof-read our own work (and really hard to troubleshoot our own code).
Our brains are great at problem solving but not great at listing out our assumptions.
This is one of the main benefits of the AHK Hero group. We’re constantly helping each other work-past our assumptions! I highly recommend you have a “coding buddy” so you can bounce things off of them like we do in the Hero group!
Now on with the show…
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Saving User Preferences
Most programs have a way to save your preferences. In this video, extracted from Intermediate AHK, Isaias explains when & why you want to save user preferences. Don’t forget, all of our courses come with a 200% money back guarantee.
Why save User Prefernces Extracted from Intermediate AHK
In AutoHotkey it’s a breeze when you use ini files however there are a LOT of ways you can save user preferences! At the AHK Con we discussed the pros & cons of many of them in this video.
AHKCon 7: Data Storage (ini,text,JSON,XML,SQL, etc.)
Responses to AutoHotkey Challenge
I was happy to see Hellbent took my AHK Challenge to heart and did 5 separate videos on his best AHK scripts! You can check out his 5 favorite scripts by watching this playlist. Don’t forget to subscribe to his channel here.
5 Scripts I wrote using AutoHotkey
Bill Gates does the Unthinkable
I was watching an old Microsoft video and Bill Gates displayed something spectacular in one of his marketing videos. It’s almost like he invented AutoHotkey! 😊
I never expected to see this in a Microsoft Video by Bill Gates
Speaking of Mr. Gates. I had a bit of fun a while back putting together this video.
the Automator interviews Bill Gates
Update to Chat GPT API
A while back we mentioned that the Chat GPT API had a drastic update which caused our AHK library to break. This is not something that happens frequently with APIs (which is one reason why we prefer it over Web Scraping). This morning Ryan Wells was asking about connecting to the Chat GPT API and I shared our library and this video with him and had Isaias update our download for the AHK Chat GPT Library.
Update to AutoHotkey GPT library
📚 What we’re reading
- What to do if you Forget Your Android Phone’s PIN, Pattern, or Password
- Google’s Magnifier Android App
- Why you should be Writing Everything in Markdown
- How to avoid Spam Robocalls on Android
🤖 AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Moonvalley: is a groundbreaking new text-to-video generative AI model
- Gan AI: Offers efficient customization of video content to evoke emotions & enhance purchase decisions
- LLaVA: Upload pictures and ask questions about your photo. I demonstrate it in this video
🆓 How to use AI to examine pictures for FREE❗
⚡️Productivity tips: Ctrl + [ and Ctrl + ] in MS Word
Ctrl + [ will Decrease the font size while Ctrl + ] will Increase them.
🤣 A spot of Humor: Funniest blooper of all time
I remember seeing this years ago. Be prepared to ROFL!
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🗣️ 💭 Quotable quotes
- Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve. — Napoleon Hill
- Work harder on yourself than you do on your job — Jim Rohn
- A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can’t go anywhere until you change it.
- Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value — Albert Einstein
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P.S. Make sure you find a “coding buddy”. The other person doesn’t have to be an expert, they just have to be “not you”. Getting feedback from other Hero members is one of the top things AHK Hero members mention as a huge value! We are constantly helping each other out!
