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Posts tagged "AHK Hero Membership AutoHotkey" (Page 2)

Why My Driveway Upgrade Was the Best Time Hack of the Year❗

Howdy,

I moved “to the country” mid Covid. We bought a house with 7 acres (and I still love it!)

One of the few things I didn’t like about our move was how dusty my office would get because I was closest to our gravel/dirt driveway.

Around twice a year I’d “amuse” my wife and use a leaf blower to “dust” my office.

This saved me a ton of time and did a decent job with little work.

About a month ago I sold our last rental home and I had extra cash so I decided to redo our driveway with crushed asphalt.

HOLY COW !

My only regret is that I didn’t do it years ago!

Now I know just how people feel when they hire us to automate their tasks.

I can rest peacefully knowing I’ve made a sound investment and will not have to blow-out my office.

And my entire family can breathe easier❗

%Name%, what things can you pay for now that will prevent future work❓

Now on with the show…

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AutoHotkey to the Rescue

This is how I feel when I meet new clients for the first time. How about you %Name%?

Easily Transcribe Multiple Media Files

Our Transcribe & Summarize tool is quite amazing! It’s got lots of “bells & whistles” however, if you only want transcripts, it was overkill.

So we created our Transcriber tool that lets you drag multiple files to it and it will transcribe them. There is an option to create a summary, but that’s all. Check it out in this video.

Transcribe Multiple Video or Audio files with Transcriber

Adapting our OCR tool to do more!

Our AI OCR tool is quite amazing at performing OCR on whatever you select from your screen however I realized it is easily adjustable to do much more! In this video I explain my ideas and show how powerful it could be.

Adapting OCR for flexiblility

Change your Drive Icons

During an AHK Hero call I walked people through how easy it is to give yourself a visual reminder by adding icons to your Hard drives that show up in Windows Explorer (and most tools).

I’ve been doing this for 30+ years, but sometimes it’s good to cover the basics!

If you’ve never done this check out how easy it is in this video.

Easily Changing the Icons of your Drives

Improving People’s Lives: Story #71

Our client needed a quick way to transfer a lot of info from a Word Doc to an Online Survey.

I quickly wrote a “simple” loop that would allow him to copy 5 data points. Then it would automatically switch to the questionnaire, parse the clipboard content, and paste in the respective fields.

It probably took me about 20 minutes of work but saved him hours (because he had a crazy long survey❗)

What we’re reading

5 ways to Get Online when your ISP is down
Use this Extension to Control Chrome without a mouse
Win11 Context Menu could soon get another overhaul
9 Google Maps voice commands every driver should know
my laptop knows where I am — Thanks Ryan!

AI News that you Need to Know

Google Apps are getting better weather forecasts from AI
Eleven labs releases License Legendary Voices
Claude’s new reasoning skills put to the test
Using an AI Chatbot to plan a vacation
Grok 4.1 released; ChatGPT 5.1 released; Gemini 3.0 Released
Google created their own VS code tool named Antigravity

Welcome to Google Antigravity

⚡️Productivity tips: Play Hide-and-Seek with the Ribbon❗

Control+F1 Toggles the visibility of the Ribbon in most office programs (Excel, Outlook, Powerpoint, Word, etc.)

A spot of Humor:

Between Two Ferns bloopers Non stop laughter!

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #111

This week I dove into a ton of AutoHotkey tools we’ve been building – everything from XML processing solutions for clients to launching our new ASM editor for just $4.99 (or Free if you have an All Access Pass)!

In this week’s video I walk you through about 20 different automation tools including hotkey managers, media players with extensive controls, invoice calculators with Stripe integration, and even a clever one-click incognito mode solution that AI helped me figure out.

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #111

It’s amazing how AutoHotkey keeps solving real-world problems and making tedious tasks disappear.

Come see what we’ve been cooking up!

Clients say…

I had no idea you could do this with AutoHotkey — Jim F.

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 490 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:

Help AHK Hero Members with their Questions & Code
Regular Expressions: Differences between AHK and RegEx101
Ahk Script Maker
- Searching your clipboard history
- Adding notes that are “important”
- Adding Check for Update
Creating a Hash versus Encoding
Adding a @Important and Note in VSCode to remind you of a problem
5 Git commands that feel like Magic
Using a Ternary to easily apply changes based on logic (instead of using an “if”)

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

Work Hard; Be Curious; Be Honest❗— Joe Glines
It’s easy to see stupid in other people — Dan Kennedy
Better to Remain Silent and Be Thought a Fool than to Speak and Remove All Doubt — Mark Twain
Motion beats meditation — Gary Halbert

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P.S. We have a lot of tools that help us work Smarter, not Harder.

What AHK programming tools help you get more done quicker❓

AHK News 2025-07-31 My Painting Work Was Obvious; Now It’s Invisible The AutoHotkey Life

Howdy %Name%,

When I was working on my Undergraduate degree in Marketing I ran my own company painting homes.

The name of my company was “Meticulous Painting” and I kept plenty busy making decent money.

One thing I really loved about the work was, after I’d finish a job, I could stand back and look at the home and clearly see and appreciate the results.

And, more importantly, the home owner could also look at the work and easily tell that I’d done a really good job.

Fast forward to when I earned my Master’s in Market Research and worked as a “Data Scientist“…before that term even existed)

One part of my job would be to meet with “C-level” executives and explain to them the Advanced statistical work I’d done and what it meant for the company.

I learned very quickly that, sadly, the vast majority of people had no clue what a “Regression Tree” was or what CHAID analysis was.

And those were the “simple” things I did❗

Nor did they understand, or appreciate, the complexities of working with multicollinearity (variables that are highly-correlated to each other).

Even worse was that even my boss had no clue what I was doing and had no realistic way to evaluate how good of a job I had done.

It reminds me of programming with AutoHotkey.

We often tackle very complicated automations and come up with very “cool” solutions.

They can see that our solutions are robust, however most our clients have to just “take it on faith” that the issue was “difficult” to solve because, anything beyond the basics looks like “Greek” to them.

To our clients that hire us to do work for them, we demonstrate how the tool works.

During our AHK Hero calls, we show Hero members the “magic behind the curtain”.

Now on with the show…

Most Exciting thing I’ve seen with AutoHotkey in Years!

Isaias was working for a client on a project and revisited working with the Windows Runtime model (WindowsRT).

In this video Isaias showed me how he was using AutoHotkey to Record audio without using other tools (Like ffmpeg or BASS.dll). But we dive deeper into what his work implies for us using AutoHotkey.

Think of it like another “COM Object” approach for automating Windows Methods / Functionality.

This is going to be an ENORMOUS game changer! Expect more videos & scripts to follow!

Revisiting Windows Runtime – 20th way to Automate Windows with AutoHotkey

Speaking of New: This Functionality is available in AHK v2.1

Isaias wrote a cool “simple“ script for me the other day.

I went to run it and it “complained” that it required AHK v2.1. I didn’t want to bug him so I tried just changing it to requiring v2.0+ but quickly realized that, in that “simple script” he’d leveraged something that actually did require v2.1.

So I asked him to fix it but decided to “hit record” so we could all learn.

You can check out the cool new thing available in v2.1 in this video.

One New Functionality in AutoHotkey v2.1

Using AI to SuperCharge the AHK Newsletter

When I was working on the newsletter last week I realized AI could help me on this newsletter. In particular, not only could it verify all the URLs (ensuring I linked to the correct topic) and that the links were valid but also checking if I should have included more links to the AutoHotkey documentation, our YouTube Videos, or our AHK scripts.

This was easier than anticipated because of our the-Automator Resource Finder has all those links!

Check it out in this video

Using AI to to help with the AutoHotkey Newsletter

️‍♀️Improving People’s Lives: Story #56

Years ago we had a client reach out to us to help him with his “golf game” (both literally and figuratively).

You see, he had a very advanced golf game that he used to improve his golf swing and wanted to use a remote control to “reset” the game after his swing.

We made it super-easy for him to use and it allowed him to stay focused on what mattered (perfecting his swing).

He was gushing with praise by the end of the call❗