Category: Automation

There is a LintaList web page that has links to all the good stuff such as latest download, videos and other interesting things. I’m thinking that this may be better for my text expander items as I can go and check on them and also pull them up and search for them , rather than

Previous articles have discussed counter uses for a program and a license check to run. I’m interested in duration, as in, the software will run for 30 days then stop. So how to do? On installing a program it has to go and get today’s date and secrete that somewhere. Then each subsequent time the

In the prototype stage you can have a count to protect the program but what do you do when you hand over the program to others? You’ve given an install file so potentially they can share that installer with anyone. I wrote some articles and did a video for the temporary process Compile a program

Following on from Compile a program for install for distribution article. I’m thinking about doing some paid work, so I want to be able to send prototype scripts to people to use, but not the full version, or rather a version that will run for a while and then stop. That way the customer can

How do you compile a set of files , so that if you run an install it can locate files in different directories to run. I’m thinking of trying to setup some sort of prototyping for some scripts. I would like to send a copy to clients to test run, but I only want the

In the previous article MaxLauncher & sending emails in Thunderbird with mailto: I used my default email application to setup a new Template to send emails. I was able to add a few signatures to in the body of the text so that I could just delete the ones I didn’t want. As well as

I’ve just spend a few hours trying to figure out a hotkey script to send emails at a touch of a MaxLauncher key to Thunderbird. My initial objective is to have a DEFAULT sender address, a set TO email ( I can have multiple buttons for different addressee’s if they are common or just a

I find articles/websites that I want to follow up on later and the method I’ve been using is to use the email button in the menu bar. This triggers my email Thunderbird and I then have to fill in To: Sender with my email address and then send the email. Step 1. Using bookmarklet to

I’ve a few bookmarklets that I think are great, but I don’t use as frequently as I would like to because I forget they are there to be used. A bit of an issue with me, I find interesting things but forget to use them sufficiently to get the most out of them. So they

I’ve been battling to get MaxLauncher buttons that run hotkeys. MaxLauncher is a program launcher that pops up on the screen and I looks like a keyboard. You can assign a file or folder to a key on the virtual keyboard. So if you want to send a hotkey, say Ctrl+W to a program, say