Author: Max Drake

Office 365 subscription and use I have just been writing about free productivity tools for windows and as I was working through them I realised that I am paying $165 NZ per year for Office 365 Home. My subscription is coming up for renewal shortly. This is what it offers: Share with your entire family

I wrote an article on 6 more free Productivity Tools for Win 10 which followed on from my earlier article about 8 free productivity  tools that I posted on LinkedIn, then I found another 4 that I wanted to write about and added them into the original article. The LinkedIn post still has only the

Further to my previous post on 12 Free Productivity Tools for Win 10 (initially 8 but I added some more) I have since found a few more free programmes that can help with productivity. RocketDock RocketDock is a task bar, but it looks a bit like the Apple Task Bar and can be configured in

AutoIt v3 is a freeware BASIC-like scripting language designed for automating the Windows GUI and general scripting. It uses a combination of simulated keystrokes, mouse movement and window/control manipulation in order to automate tasks in a way not possible or reliable with other languages (e.g. VBScript and SendKeys). AutoIt is also very small, self-contained and

I’m really trying to get my head around this programme. Its not as flexible as it first seems. Also, there is only so much that you can do with the community version. The costs of robots, from “googling” the web seem high too. So I’ll work through this exercise but may drop the programme later

UiPath is a bit more sophisticated than Zapier. I like the Zapier integration and its simple to use but the free version is pretty limited, its also for personal stuff rather than business stuff. For the same price you can use UiPath and it’s a bit more versatile. This post will document an automated process

Macro Tools Following on from Macro productivity tools using AlternativeTo I came across: SikuliX automates anything you see on the screen of your desktop computer running Windows, Mac or some Linux/Unix. It uses image recognition powered by OpenCV to identify and control GUI components. This is handy in cases when there is no easy access to

Today, most people have multiple devices and being able to share information between them is sometimes useful. It can be a bit inconvenient when information you want is on another device. I am a bit “old school” and want my data on my device, not in the cloud or on some storage unit that can

I’m a great fan of new tools that increase productivity. I used key shortcuts in pre-windows DOS and have used them ever since. I’ve been watching some YouTube videos on being productive and found a few useful shortcuts, add-ins and apps, all free, that I will be trying out to see which ones work for

While at Wellington City Council working on Strategic Assets, one of the exercises of the Building Asset Team Leader, Tane Dunne,  was to work out what the top major cost items were for the assets over a period of time, in this case 50 years. The assets were captured by the SPM  survey team of