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AutoHotkey News 2025-04-03 – Pay $20, walk away with $100! It must be a SCAM Right❓

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Howdy %Name%,

Imagine you get the following message from your bank:

Hello %name%,

Since you are a great client we are offering an exclusive sale to you.

For the next 5 days you can drop by and purchase $100 dollar bills for $20 each.

There are no limits and no strings attached.

My question to you %name% is:  How many $20s would you bring to your bank❓

Would you borrow from your friends & family❓

After all, it seems like a crazy deal right?

You can spend some money now and directly get back 5X?

What if that multiplier was higher❓

Would if it was 20X or 50X?

As crazy as this sounds, that is exactly what you’re doing when you learn AutoHotkey

By learning to automate your work, you are automating what used to take you, your team, your employees time!

And, when done right, you’re not only saving time your reducing the likelihood of human error!

If you want to speed-up the process of buying money, get on my calendar and we’ll figure out how we can help you!

Now on with the show…

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Watch out for this Gotcha❗

A while back we were getting a list of files in a folder and ran into a weird “bug” (or so we thought.)

During an AHK Hero group Isaias explains what went wrong and what to look out for.

I excerpted the discussion which you can see here.

Building a List of Files and-or Folders in AutoHotkey v2
Building a List of Files and-or Folders in AutoHotkey v2

Easily Merging Audio or Video Files

If you have a bunch of Audio or Videio files you want concatenated together, our Media Merger is a great tool for you!

It, very quickly, merges together the media files faster than grandma hits ‘Reply All‘ on a church email chain.

Take a look at it in this video

Easily Merge Audio or Video files with Media Merger
Easily Merge Audio or Video files with Media Merger

Are you Sharing your Screen with AI❓

In this video I have Google’s Gemini model explain how Effortless Video Reducer works..

What’s really amazing is that Gemini didn’t “know” my program.  It had never seen it before and i didn’t share the source code.

This means it’s pretty darn smart!

If you’re stuck, you can share your screen and ask it for help!

Use AI to help Document your AHK Scriptsv
Use AI to help Document your AHK Scriptsv

Improving People’s Lives: Story #91

We updated our AI translator to automatically send the translation to Zoom Chat.

It’s not perfect, but it is much better and easier to use!

What we’re reading

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

⚡️Productivity tips:

In Windows Explorer you can toggle the preview view using Alt+P

A spot of Humor:  This is very accurate!

Developer VS Tester
Developer VS Tester | Developers Memes | Testers Memes | Developers fun | Tester Fun | War | Funny

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #91

In this week’s episode of what we automated with AutoHotkey I walk through

What we Automated with AutoHotkey #91
What we Automated with AutoHotkey #91

Client’s say…

This is a game changer and we are very Blessed to have Joe and his team working in helping us in utilizing the wonderful opportunities to grow with new technologies available  to us.

Again, thank you for all the support you give us.   — Stephanie Holland

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Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 429 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗

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

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; We can create it for you! — Joe Glines
  • Implement More and Innovate Less❗ — Joe Glines
  • The more random you are, the less success you’ll have — Dan Kennedy

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The-Automator

Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Denilson and staff

P.S. When you automate your process you’re investing in the future!

If you would like help automating your work, check out my calendar and schedule a call today!

AHK News 2025-04-03 Why Smart People Never Build Their Own Tools

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Howdy,

Let’s get real. Time is your most precious asset .

Far too many people (especially those who are smart, capable, and resourceful) fall into the trap of thinking they should do everything themselves.

But just because you can doesn’t mean you should.

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, team leader, or a tech-savvy professional, there’s a moment when you have to ask yourself:

What is the return on your time?

Imagine spending 20, 50, even 100 hours building out an automation or tool that kinda works, but lacks reliability, flexibility, or scalability.

That’s time you could have spent doing what you do best — or simply living your life.

Now imagine this: you hire the-Automator.

In a fraction of the time it would take you to cobble something together, you get a powerful, efficient, battle-tested solution built by experts who live and breathe automation.

Not only does it do what you wanted—it goes beyond that.

More features, better performance, cleaner code, and better User Interface.

You get the benefit of hundreds of hours of experience condensed into a tool that makes your life easier right now .

That’s not an expense; that’s high-yield leverage

Think about it—most people get excited over a 10–14% return on their investments.

But what’s the ROI on reclaiming your time, reducing your stress, and getting tools that elevate your performance or business?

It’s massive.
And it’s immediate.

Trying to do it all yourself means constantly juggling roles, context-switching, and usually building inferior tools that cost more in the long run.

Instead, hire AHK Gurus who already have the skills, tools, and systems to bring your ideas to life faster and better than you could on your own.

Leverage us. That’s what smart people do .

The-Automator doesn’t just save you time.
We multiply your impact.

So let go of that “I’ll just do it myself” mentality.
✅ Reclaim your time.
✅ Hire smart.
✅ Build better.
✅ Grow faster.

We’re here to help.  You can check out my calendar here

Now on with the show…

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lifeHackingBaby

World’s Best Clipboard Editor

Last Friday Jean Lalonde joined our AHK Hero call and gave us an amazing walkthrough of his latest tool Quick Clipboard Editor. 

If you’re a Power user then you’ll LOVE this tool!   I extracted the tutorial which you can see here.

It will have you rethinking how you work and wondering how you lived without a clipboard editor!

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

Advanced Tips When Sending Messages

Last week Isaias gave Irfan and I a quick lesson to “watch out for” when we’re sending messages.  You can see the video here.

Or go watch our playlist (mostly older AHK V1) on messages here.

Watchout for the Hit Test when Sending Messages
Watchout for the Hit Test when Sending Messages

Tips on Extending Classes in AutoHotkey

During a team meeting Isaias was giving us a little lesson on working with Classes.

You can check out the tutorial here.

Tips on Extending Classes in AutoHotkey
Tips on Extending Classes in AutoHotkey

If your using Functions in AutoHotkey, but not classes, our Objects course is a perfect fit for you!

We cover the basics of using Classes in AutoHotkey as well as introduce people to Functions.

And don’t forget our courses come with a 200% money-back guarantee so you have nothing to lose❗

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Improving People’s Lives: Story #43

Kenneth Aar, an AHK Hero member, Introduced us to Scribe the other day (check out this video).

We signed-up and are now creating great little tutorials for people for our clients which will greatly reduce the amount of technical support calls they receive!

How This Hidden Tool Makes Documentation Magically Simple
♂️ How This Hidden Tool Makes Documentation Magically Simple

What we’re reading

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

⚡️Productivity tips:

Alt + Shift + Up/Down Arrow – Move selected sentences / paragraphs up or down in most editors

A spot of Humor Dilbert does Tech Support

Dilbert: Reboot
Dilbert: Reboot

What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #81

This week I was surprised when we had 490 AutoHotkey files worked on!

I realized much of it was just adding a “Dev Path” to our scripts.

So this week’s episode was a bit shorter than normal.  You can check it out here.

Client’s say…

“My mind is blown” — Kelly Coughlin

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Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 393 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
  • Using a “Non-space” space to align an image
  • Window tilted: ‘No Active Window!’; GrepWin is your friend!
  • What: A_ThisFunc, -1, -2 mean in a class
  • Likely problem when you have an issue that requires you to restart your script

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

  • It’s easy to see stupid in other people — Dan Kennedy
  • If every request is a five alarm fire, it’s your house that’s gonna go up in flames — Amy Landino
  • Failure is not the opposite of success; It’s a part of it! — Anonymous
  • When experiencing problems with tools, typically you should blame the operator, not the tool — Joe Glines

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Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff

P.S. As I spell-out in the Intro, I do think anybody reading this CAN (given enough time and effort) do anything they want.  But the truth is most of us already have too much to do!

If you’re needing more time, consider hiring us to solve your automation problems.

I guarantee you’ll be happy that you did!   Check my calendar and book a meeting by clicking here.

AHK newsletter 2025-03-06: my 5 Bullet points of what I did last week… :)

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!

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

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
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
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
Update to Claude AHK Class: Now has 3.7 Sonnet &

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!)

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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
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

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

Bar chart comparing LLM input and output prices per million tokens: GPT-4.5 costs 75 input and 150 output, far above GPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet and

⚡️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
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.

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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

AHK Newsletter⏩SHARE WITH A FRIEND⏩

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The-Automator

Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff

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?