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This is a very important message!
I recently heard that AOL is cancelling its dial-up service!
If you’re old enough to remember when AOL “was the internet” then you might be one of the 8 people on our newsletter list that still has their AOL email addresses!
I’m wondering just who will be impacted by this!
Don’t let technology pass you by!
I remember when I worked at Texas Instruments, I refused to upgrade Excel to the “ribbon” version. So much so I even purchased “I-Hate-the-Ribbon.com“.
A couple of years later my 56-year-old colleague was “cut“ from TI and had a really difficult time finding a job because he was “old school“.
His getting laid off knocked some sense into me and I got on the “ribbon” bandwagon (although I still hate it).
AI is now speeding-up everything! It’s a constant topic in our AHK Hero calls!
You really should join just to have a group of friends to help you stay on the “cutting edge”.
Now on with the show…
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Find a Better Way to Automate
In the past we’ve discussed how important it is to find more robust ways to automate your programs.
Now that NotebookLM produces videos I took some of our talks and “fed them” to NotebookLM.
It came up with this Amazing video which does a great job explaining the problem and some solutions (We know 20 ways to Automate programs with AutoHotkey; 18 of which are the API approach type.
Stop Clicking Like a Human – Level-up your AHK code today❗
For Quick and Dirty Automations
As the above video mentions there are times when you just need something quick and not robust.
That’s exactly what I had in mind when I created our ClickGrabber.
It let’s you get coordinates of your clicks very quickly and writes the code for you to send them.
You can check it out in this video.
Use our Macro Recorder ClickGrabber for your Clicks
Our 20th way to Automate Programs with AHK
Speaking of 20 ways to automate with AHK, We recently dove back in to the 20th (and one of the most exciting) ways WindowsRT. In this video we talk about some of the methods we’re interested in using and the potential it has.
Revisiting Windows Runtime – 20th way to Automate Windows with AutoHotkey
Suspending Running Programs
Sometimes other programs interfere with your automations. In this video we walk through how we are suspending DropBox while we are accessing
Suspending Cloud tools to use FileAppend
Improving People’s Lives: Story #60
Yesterday Danny, an AHK hero who is also turning into quite a developer, asked if Irfan could crank a quick web scraping script for his daughter.
Irfan nailed it but what I found brilliant about Danny’s request is that, while he was perfectly capable of writing the script himself, he had other, more important, things to do and his time.
What we’re reading
- Windows 11 Update KB5063878 Causing SSD Failures
- Windows 11’s New Android Integration
- Quickly Recover Windows 11 After a Boot Failure
- How to Delete Rows from a Filtered Range in Excel
AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage
- AI is taking Jobs from Low-Experience
- AI Catfishing
- Nano Banana (Really Google’s Gemini 2.5 flash image) is very impressive!
- Gemini AI is a game-changer
⚡️Productivity tips: Do What is Hard
Napoleon Hill: Do What Is Hard
A spot of Humor: Down with the Cracker
Down With The Cracker
What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #99
In this week’s video I give a rundown of all the cool AutoHotkey stuff the creator has been messing around with this week.
The big highlights are a mic volume script that keeps your audio levels from getting randomly messed up by Zoom or other apps (which is super annoying when editing videos), an error capture tool that automatically grabs those pesky runtime errors and dumps them in your clipboard so you can just paste them into AI.
I also demo a click grabber tool that watches what you click and writes the AutoHotkey code for you.
There’s also a bunch of other neat utilities like a file browser for recent stuff, a URL tracker for video production, and an invoice calculator that makes billing way easier.
What we Automated with AutoHotKey #99
Clients say…
Having discovered Joe Glines on the Internet was the best thing in addition to discovering AutoHotkey. — Dwight Arroyo
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 454 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
- Win32Control Helper Class
- ClickGrabber / Macro recorder
- Use of Ternary with notifications class (on a toggled item)
- Clipboard Format Monitor
- Breaking Logs into Incremental Files
- Using a dropdown instead of edit (for numbers)
- How to add color to a Status Bar
- Pausing scripts versus an executable
- SendMessagevs PostMessage ; when using to close a script and when in a loop (killer.ahk)
- Avoid Defining variables inside an If statement
- Why Error Capture had a problem with Chrome / Webhooks
- Broadcasting messages to all Windows (hidden and visible)
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
- If every request is a five alarm fire, it’s your house that’s gonna go up in flames — Amy Landino
- Work harder on yourself than you do on your job — Jim Rohn
- The object of life is to make your vocation your vacation. — Mark Twain
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Joe, Isaias, Irfan and staff
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P.S. Yes, I was serious about 8 people using their AOL email address to receive this newsletter and, yes, I did own the “I-Hate-the-Ribbon.com“.
Technology is growing at a faster pace than ever! It’s why being a part of a club is so helpful. We have a group of people that are keeping us on our toes!
