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Howdy,

Last Saturday my 18 year old son, Jon, Graduated Highschool❗

It was bitter sweet for me. I’m super proud of him however, seeing AI’s growth, I’m not convinced that a college degree is going to be “worth” what it was in the past. (Keep in mind I have 4 degrees)

I’m hoping to have Jon work with my over the summer and help him learn some great computer skills which will help him for the rest of his life.

One super-smart thing I did when he was young was found a game that made learning to touch-type “fun”. I think he was around 9 years old when he beat my wife at a typing test!

I taught him some basics of AutoHotkey in the past but, at first, I’ll be having him go through our “Rise above PC Incompetence” course so he’ll be light-years ahead of kids his age (and many adults for that matter.)

Congrats Jon! I love you and am super proud of you!

Now on with the show…

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Our most Used Libraries

A few weeks ago I got to wondering what were our most-used AutoHotkey libraries. Well, in this video, I walk through how I figured that out and showed which ones were the ones we use a lot!

Which AHK Libraries, Objects, Functiosn we #include Most in our Scripts

One critical difference between SetTimers and Loops

We were working on a project with our new employee, Denilson, out of Brazil when Isaias realized there was a great teaching lesson! So of course I hit record and captured a simple but very important difference between SetTimers and Loops

Learn the surpising differnce between Loops and SetTimers | AHK Hero Extract

BTW If you’re not familiar with SetTimers or Loops we cover both in our amazing Intermediate AHK v2 course! Don’t’ forget, our courses come with a 200% money-back guarantee!

Advanced Hotkey Tips & Tricks

A few months back, during an AHK Hero call, we walked through some really great Hotkey tips and tricks. Even if you think you’re familiar with Hotkeys, I highly suggest you check out this video!

Advanced Key Combination Hotkeys – AHK Hero Extract

Are you Tired of AutoHotkey GUIs❓

GeekDude often attends our AHK hero calls. During one call a while back he provided some great examples of how to generate Gorgeous GUIs with the WebViewToo class. I extracted part of the call and you can check it out here.

Learn how to create Beautiful HTML GUIS with this amazing AHK V2 library WebViewToo

Improving People’s Lives: Story #51

We recently created a super-simple tool that uses FFMPEG to record your desktop and mic. This will allow our client to “hit a button” start talking and pointing on her screen about changes she’d like to see” and hit the “stop” button.

So much easier than trying to write-up a description of what you’re wanting done!

What we’re reading

7 CSS Properties You’ve never heard of (and how to use them)
Overlooked Feature makes Samsung Phone Twice as Useful
In Excel, don’t use Subtotal, use Aggregate

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

How Living Computers Could Change Everything
NotebookLM app gets bug fix updates on Android and iOS
Automate lead generation and multichannel outreach with Appollo
Google’s Veo3 is making very impressive videos

Google Veo 3 Changes Everything – Video, SFX, and Speech all at Once

⚡️Productivity tips:

In MS Excel you can use Alt + = to trigger AutoSum

A spot of Humor: Come on, I’m sure one of you owns one of these

Client’s say…

“There’s no way I could have accomplished what we’ve done without your support!” — Stephanie Holland

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 420 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
Issue with : Notifyv2 / Get Active Path and DPI Adjuster
Issue Using Task Scheduler on Client’s computers
AI in your tool verse Innovating
Using FileObject Why changing “rw” to “w” truncates the file to the correct length
Playing with InputHook function
Demo QuickDestkopRecord

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness — Napoleon Hill
Learn how to calculate the future cost of your bad decisions — Joe Glines
It’s easy to see stupid in other people — Dan Kennedy

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P.S. Time goes by faster than you can ever imagine!

It seems like only yesterday Jon was a toddler. As Darius Rucker sang in this wonderful song It won’t be like this for long

Darius Rucker – It Won’t Be Like This For Long (Official Video)

AutoHotkey Newsletter

Howdy,

I was chatting with my good friend Ryan Wells about how people have difficulty seeing the repetitiveness in what they do as mentioned in last week’s newsletter intro. He proposed the idea of how a custom baker makes personalized cakes.

Because the baker has his client in mind, and is changing the frosting and design on top, they view every cake as “% unique”.

Yet 99% of the ingredients and work that goes into the cake are IDENTICAL to the last one they made!

They also use the same oven, cook it for nearly the same amount of time, and use the same pans, hot-pads, delivery boxes etc.

So probably over 99% of the effort that goes into making the cake is identical to other cakes.

The differences, while they seem large to the human eye, are very small from the perspective of a task and training someone (or something) to re-create it.

My question to you is:

What are your “custom cakes“❓

What work do you do repeatedly that you think is vastly different however, in reality, is 99% the same.

What “looks different” but, in reality, is the same thing with a different colored frosting?

Whatever that thing is: you should be able to automate a lot of it!

If you’d like some help identifying the repeatable things, look at my calendar and pick a time to review❗

Now on with the show…

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Binding Parameters to a Function

During the AHK hero calls we’ve been teaching people the many benefits of using Functions. It reminded me of this video where Isaias discusses how and why to Bind Parameters to a Function.

You Won’t Believe How Easy It Is to Bind Parameters to a Function in AutoHotkey

Compiling AutoHotkey v2 Scripts

A YouTube subscriber watched a video we put together several years ago about compiling AutoHotkey v1 scripts but asked about V2. While there isn’t a big difference, we realized there are some other things we could cover so we created this video showing many of the options available to you when you compile in v2.

How to Compile AutoHotkey v2 Scripts

Advanced lesson on monitoring Protocols and analyzing your Network Traffic

Wireshark is a crazy powerful, free, network protocol analyzer that captures and inspects data packets traveling through a computer network in real time. It’s an essential tool for network troubleshooting, security analysis, and understanding how applications and protocols actually communicate on networks.

Unfortunately, because it is so powerful, it is tough to learn.

I watched this video and was able to get a decent grasp of how to use it.

Wireshark Tutorial for Beginners | Network Scanning Made Easy

Check out this new Clipboard Editor

Don’t forget to check out Jean Lalonde’s new Quick Clipboard Editor. It’s a great tool that you didn’t realize you need! You can get an idea of hit’s capabilities in this video.

What’s a Clipboard Editor—and Why Is Everyone Talking About It?