Howdy %Name%,
Can you say you’re better off not feeling pain?
If you didn’t feel pain you’d probably never stop doing what you currently are doing.
Pain is not an obstacle to growth.
Pain is a necessary catalyst for growth to occur!
It’s the biggest reason I ever picked-up AutoHotkey in the first place! I knew there had to be a “better way” to get my (ridiculous repetitive) reports done!
People often reach out to us, to automate a process or create a new approach, because their current method SUCKS!
Most of our clients come to us to remove painful processes we also frequently hear:
- Saving time / increasing productivity
- Reducing human errors
- Scalability / Getting 10X more done than humanly possible
- Improved consistency
- Customizing a tool work the way “the users” want it to
- 24/7 Availability – Computers don’t take coffee breaks (yet)
- Letting humans make decisions & computers “do the work”
- Gamifying their work to make it “fun”
What brought you AutoHotkey❓
I’d love to know…
Now on with the show…
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Make Quick Edits to Videos or Audio
Do you ever want to extract parts of a long video or audio file?
Our newest tool, Quick Raw Edit, does exactly that! It’s super-simple to use and extracts the clips faster than a politician will break his promise!
Quick Raw Edit is sold as an executable and is amazing if you’re wanting to create clips from longer media files.
You can learn more about it in this video.
How to Quickly Extract sections of Video or Audio
Update your V2 AutoHotkey GUIs
If you’re working with GUIs at all, I highly recommend you switch to AHK v2.
They are all objects which makes them much easier to work with.
In this video Isaias walks through some simple ways to get/set information in your v2 GUIs
How to easily Change/Update your AutoHotkey v2 GUIs
Getting Meta Data about your Files
We’ve been working on a lot of media file tools lately. Our File Attributes tool really helped us, programmatically, get things that were not “easy”.
It will let you see up to 1,317 different file attributes.
You can see how the tool works in this video.
One example is you could use this tool to only process videos that are less than 1080p.
Or perhaps only process audio files that are more than 20 minutes long.
Or only change the size of pictures that are the incorrect dimensions.
How to Access over 1,317 File Attributes with File Metadata Retrevier
Improving People’s Lives: Story #20
Some websites that have a lot more security (LinkedIn, Facebook, etc.) make it difficult to perform API calls instead of automating a browser.
While we can usually avoid detection using Rufaydium, often it’s just easier/faster to perform API Calls.
The difficulty is getting “all” of the cookies.
Some coolkies are more difficult to get than others.
You’d think Mrs. Fields was guarding her secret recipe!
Anyway Isaias asked Irfan to extract just the bare-minimum of code so we can get the cookies from Chrome.
Now we’re able to perform HTTP Requests (API calls) and fully imitate the browser which is much faster and far more reliable!
For one of our clients, we’re building a massive tool that integrates many of these sites and now it is even more stable than ever!
What we’re reading
- How to speed up your typing with Gboard’s Personal Dictionary
- 8 tips to Improve Wi-Fi on Samsung phones
- Surprisingly you can Now buy Microsoft Office 2024
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- Creative uses of Chat GPT’s Realtime API
- Napkin.ai is a very handy tool for creating free infographics. Watch this video
- Extract and monitor data on any web Site with Al using Jsonify
⚡️Productivity tips: Keep it clean!
Are you like me and are often eating at your computer? Put a weekly reminder to turn your keyboard over and give it a few taps. This will help prevent hardware failure & keep you up-and-running longer!
Depending on where you live, maybe every quarter / 6 months you might want to open up your computer and clear out the dust-bunnies!
A spot of Humor
Truly some epic clips in this video
1 in a Billion Moments
Client’s say…
“You guys are my automation Rock stars” — Ajay Wilcox
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 321 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗
During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss:
- Help AHK Members with their code
- Isaias Amazing tips on how he builds GUIs
- Quotation Marks for properties in Objects
- Accidentally Deleting files in Effortless Video Reducer & not recycling instead of deleting
- Branching in VS code with git
- Borrowing Chrome Cookies
- Adjusting GUI controls (Up/Down) so take into account Scrollbar Width
- Example using KeyWait
- Example of using Suspend exe
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
- Whatever Your Mind Can Conceive and Believe, It Can Achieve — Napoleon Hill
- It’s easy to see stupid in other people — Dan Kennedy
- Go the extra mile. Even when no one does it for you — John Carlton
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P.S. Often we don’t even realize that what we have can be automated because we’ve become “numb” to the pain.
Not a week goes by that I don’t slap my forehead and realize something I do all the time can be automated.
Having someone else watch your process is a great way to spot things that can /should be automated.
If’ you’d like one of us to review your process, simply reply to this email and let me know.
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