by Murray | Oct 5, 2016 | AutoHotKey, Scripting
Managing Tasks and Projects I have used a number of productivity tools over the years from Thinking Rock to OmniFocus and have always been frustrated by not being able to access and edit my projects anywhere and on any device. For example, OmniFocus is probably my...
by Murray | Sep 20, 2016 | AutoHotKey, Scripting
I use a simple set of scripts that allow me to enter dates in a range of formats. Day.Month.Year, Month/Day/Year, Year-Month-Day with a range of separators. This is done using the standard script below and changing the <key> and Date/Time format String....
by Murray | Sep 19, 2016 | AutoHotKey, Scripting
Computers are very good at dull, repetitive tasks, humans less so. I am slightly less tolerant of the dull and repetitive than average so get great enjoyment from eliminating the dull where I can and enhancing the rest as much as possible with tricks, scripts and...
by Murray | Aug 2, 2012 | Productivity
If you haven’t looked at AutoHotKey (http://www.autohotkey.com) I strongly recommend you do, it is one of the best windows automation/scripting tools I have used. I would find my PCs much harder to use and my job more tedious without it. I currently have a...
by Murray | Dec 11, 2011 | Windows, Windows XP
It seems there are as many ways to set up a windows network and proxy server as there are engineers setting them up. In my current place of employment I have found a number of apps including DropBox simply do not work across the proxy server, even with all the...