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Howdy,

I saw the below comic and realized it can be changed to help reflect various ways the-Automator helps people learn AutoHotkey.

Our AHK Courses are great for people that want to work “on their own”

The AHK Hero program is great when people need a little “personalized help”. Or you might consider a tutoring session.

And of course some people just want the work “done for them”. That’s where our Consultations come in. You can check out our availability here.

Now on with the show…

Access all our Courses; Quit when you want

Simple Webcam Reminder

Have you ever recorded your screen and then, after the fact failed to take into account your webcam is covering part of the screen❓

If you have then you’ll understand why this tool is a “must have”.

Our tool not only reminds you your webcam is on the screen but it also let’s you display notes to yourself that video viewers cannot see.

You can check it out in this video.

Simple Webcam Reminder for those that Record their Desktop and share a Webcam

Quickly Extract Audio from your Videos

I’m helping a local Mexican restaurant play Mexican music in their parking lot to attract attention.

I wanted to avoid commercials (and be able to insert my own) so I downloaded a bunch of You Tube videos.

Then I used our Crazy fast MP3 Ripper to incredibly quickly convert them to mp3 files.

You can check out this video. Please keep in mind, the download is an executable.

How to quickly Convert Videos to mp3 files in bulk

Creating Fake drives

During a consultation call with a new AHK hero member the client mentioned he’s going to be setting up multiple computers and having to keep the files synced.

He mentioned how painful working with all the different paths were (not to mention trying to keep the files synced).

I mentioned the how we solve this by using a cloud tool (in our case DropBox) to sync all the files and also use our Drive Mapper to create a “fake” drive which means all the paths, across all the computers, will be the same!

You can learn more about this tool /approach in this video.

Creating Fake Drives for easy access & Identical paths across computers

Improving People’s Lives: Story #38

We just launched 2 chatbots for our client’s 2 websites.

Most companies charge (in my opinion) large amounts for Developing, Training/Customizing, and Implementing.

Often they’re charging $500 for a discussion, then thousands to “build” the bot and monthly fees of $50 or more (often much more).

We did everything for around $200. Granted our approach does not include the AI token usage but that will depend on usage (and will probably be under $10 a month).

The best part is the Chatbots will greatly reduce the support calls they are receiving which will allow their employees to work on what matters!

What we’re reading

Wine vs. Bottles vs. Proton which is better for Windows on Linux❓
Why you Still Need Excel Skills in Today’s AI world
Android Permissions Explained: Which ones you shouldn’t ignore
Why is MIT making robot insects?

AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage

How to Disable or Hide Copilot in several Microsoft Apps
Google launches AI BOT to call businesses for you about prices
Adobe’s Chatbot can now decipher contract jargon
What Is a Copilot+ PC

⚡️Productivity tips:

The “m” key is a toggle to mute your YouTube videos. Vey handy when you need some quick silence!

A spot of Humor

Scot swears in fury at Amazon Echo as Alexa can’t understand his accent. I wonder if AI would have understood him❓

Scots swears in fury at Amazon Echo as Alexa can’t understand his accent

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 378 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
Inexpensively Creating AI Chatbots
Auto-listing Variables / Words as you type in any editor
Writing to memory instead of file
Replacing / changing variable names in editors vs an IDE like VS Code
Copying specific files from sub-folders
Demonstrating resource drain during debug mode

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

There are many tools out there for systematizing your marketing. There are not very many for systematizing your process — Joe Glines
Motion beats meditation — Gary Halbert
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me — Carol Burnett
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow — Ovid

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If you’re wanting to get more done in less time, we are here for you! Check our calendar and book an appointment today!

Howdy,

I was reading this article which estimated the number of hours wasted per day by Industry on mundane tasks.

So, my question to you is:

How many hours a day do you waste?

And what would you do with those hours you’ve gained back through automation?

Small businesses are increasingly turning to automation as a powerful tool to level the playing field with larger competitors.

In fact, 88% of small business owners report that automation enables them to compete more effectively by helping them operate more efficiently, reduce errors, and improve customer service.

As I’ve said before:

Knowledge is power. Automation knowledge is a Super-Power

If you’d like help, check our consultation prices and then book a call with us by looking at my calendar.

Now on with the show…

Running out of Hotkeys❓

Isaias and I were discussing a weird update to VS code. The update mentioned you could now “use the Insert key…”

Both of us were laughing because it’s one of the most un-used keys ever made!

I blocked the Insert key and Numpad Insert key at least 12 years ago with the following code:

Insert::Return ;Disable Insert command
NumpadIns::Return ;Disable Insert key on 10-key Numpad

But then I realized, instead of blocking it, we should repurpose it.

With that idea in mind we went on to demonstrate a few additional ways you can play with hotkeys to have additional actions. (Watch for long-press or double press etc.)

You can check them out in this video.

Showing mulitple ways to define hotkeys for an unused key on your Keyboard

Menus in AutoHotkey v2 rock❗

During an AutoHotkey Hero call a hero member wanted to learn about creating menus.

Isaias gave a great overview of how easy it is to create menus, sub-menus and add icons.

Learning Menus in AutoHotkey v2 [Excerpt from AHK Hero call]

If you want to learn more about GUIs you should consider our Intro to GUIs course.

There is over 4.5 hours of content broken-down into bite-size videos. And it, like all our other courses, comes with a 200% money back guarantee !

Improving People’s Lives: Story #36

I helped a client record tutorials. Unfortunately sometimes, due to background noise or low bandwidth, some of her lecture was garbled.

She’s very busy so, instead of taking up her time to “patch” the videos, we used Eleven Labs to clone her voice.

I was amazed that, when I swapped out the cloned patches, it was virtually impossible to determine which was her and which was her cloned voice!