Author: Max Drake

After playing with AHK scripts I ended with a lot of scripts and nothing to map them to as the easily memorised and handy left keys that my hand can access are all used up. I ended with AHK Command Picker and that has alleviated some of the stress of having macro’s handy, but it

I started looking at an alternative to my Motor Bike and thought eScooters would be interesting to explore. I live at the top of a 200m hill and its steep. I thought about an eBike but I’m pretty unfit so didn’t want a heart attack on first trial of it. So after testing an eScooter

As my motorbike has gone I’m looking for an alternative transport to take to the city, mainly Wellington Central, where you have to pay for parking. My motorbike was free so it was handy to use when going into the city. I generally only go into town now for evening talks. So I’m thinking of

There seem to be a lot of time sheet apps on the web. A lot of them have a free service and also a paid service. So you have to log in to access them and also to store your data. There is this simple timer that just ticks along but you can’t store the

I recently compiled a .exe Time Capture application based on Joy’s AHK (AutoHotKey) App. As I was reflecting on how I used this app, in combination with Hellbent’s Stopwatch and started to consider combining a timer/stopwatch into the program. So I started looking in AHK forum for other Stopwatch scripts and also I’ve just come

I’ve been working on a project in BIM and I’ve got to the detailing part. Some of the cladding details are pretty standard and I have a lot of them in CAD format that I wanted to use using a link. The details needed some modification so I needed to use a cad program to

I want to create a AHK exe file that does timesheets for others. The idea being that I can create a simple timesheet app that writes to a file but is compiled as an exe so can be shared. The challange being that you need to give it project “names” and “codes” that are relevant

I saw Bynes RSS feed on Threadit a new video message service and looked into it a bit further. It is a bit like Loom but also allows others to clip their response to your video so that you get a more structured dialogue. It has a few interesting features. This article Google Area 120

I love AHK but its output is a bit grim and 70’s as far as presentation goes. You just get raw text, so good for code editing but as final product pretty plain. It would be nice to be able to format the text so that at least you can highlight specific information with bold,

I dread windows updates and as soon as they have taken place I open Revit to see if that is still working. I think the updates knock Revit off the list for using the Graphic Processor. This is the first time I’ve been able to get Revit get back to normal without uninstalling the windows