Comments on: Automate Your Life - Find A Little More Freedom With Windows Macros

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 18:39:40 +0000

Hey Roger,

Yes I will second their support is brilliant. I have just been hounding them in the forums for answers to a few queries and I had lots of help, even private messages from them.

Very nice to see.

Regards
Marc

By: Rodger

Rodger — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:17:43 +0000

I’ve been using Macro Scheduler from MJTNet for well over a decade. I have upgraded several times.

I find it quite powerful. It is a desktop programming language that works with any application you have on your computer. It can provide keystrokes, mouse movement and clicks, and under the cover ‘commandline’ instructions.

I have automated several apps which go between EXCEL, EditPad, & Pegasus Mail. One of which is batch processing certain emails I receive, dumping the text into EditPad, parsing the email content, calling the appropriate spreadsheet, placing the appropriate test into the spreadsheet, switching to another worksheet, printing the EXCEL graphic to pdf, sending an email with the pdf as an attachment.

The new image recognition facilities make it much more powerful for web-based tasks.

I found their customer service to be first-rate.

I highly recomment it.

Rodger

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:04:23 +0000

Hey Dewald,

I’ve used IMacros before a few years back, made an automated reciprocal link exchanger with it when reciprocals used to be wildly effective.

So I have experience with both, MS also has a web recorder that does the same as IMacros, but also integrates into their MS macro program easily.

So take this a step further Dewald,

Store all your details in a csv sheet or microsoft excel sheet (password protect it if you like)

Open it with MS
log into the site using the web recorder passing details to it from MS
check whatever you like (lets say you are checking the days stats.
Have MS move to the correct screen position using Image recognition
Take A screen shot of just the info you need and save it in a folder (automatically created and named by the name of your site)
then pass control back to the web recorder to log out of your cpanel.
Then have MS start at the second entry and repeat the process again.

You could automatically have a snapshot of all 12 sites from one data sheet and the combination of both MS & Webrecorder

Whew bit longwinded there

But yeah certainly powerfull stuff

Regards
Marc

By: Dewald - WordPress SEO

Dewald - WordPress SEO — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:46:11 +0000

Great idea to save time and provide consistency. It beats working from tens of checklists.

You can do the same thing with web browsing by recording macros with iMacros for Firefox.

Think about using it to log on to CPanel of all your websites and generate a full backup of every site, all in one macro. That’s just one example.