Category: Productivity

Originally a Glide App for personal Expenses I had previously created a Glide, no code Personal Expense App and found it extremely useful. The Glide Apps are Web Apps and they originally wrote data to a Google Sheet in your account. See Glide Apps : https://www.glideapps.com/It is a great app but I found it a

Following on from earlier video ‘Activate Python Scripts from AutoHotKey V2 Hotkeys’ (https://youtu.be/QYxTI81FtWI ) I wanted to add a hotkey information help message box, so I can easily find out the hotkeys for triggering specific scripts. I find this useful when I have a lot of hotkeys and hotstrings and so I do not have

I want to be able to activate some python scripts using keyboard hotkeys. That is, you type a hotkey , eg Alt + H and it runs the python script that you want. You can do this with a Python script, running in the background and listening for the correct hotkey and then it will

I’ve an original hotkey – ctrl+ Shift + A for cycling through File Explorer open window instances that I got from this video of Taran’s years ago, and love using it. I’ve also started to play with AutoHotKey V2 and am trying to adapt scripts from v1 to v2. I started by trying to acvtivate

I use a lot of tabular data and have some challenging times using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to get tabular data into a Spreadsheet format . I use Free PowerToys Text Extractor to capture information but it pastes all the text in one column.The Free Excel Insert Data from Picture feature is really helpful as

I did the initial video and article on this topic but wasn’t happy with the results, so decided to look for another solution. The issue was looping through and numbering the items, if you did this in the initial list then each instance of a product/shop became unique and so you ended up with rows

There is a NZ Grocers app (https://grocer.nz/) that compares prices of products in supermarkets in NZ.I wanted to develop a list of items that would vary in price and do a price comparison across different local supermarkets to find:1/ Where the best prices were to be had for specific products2/Where some short supply products would

Its past 512 published articles but that’s how it goes. I don’t think the site is gaining in popularity but I’ve been adding more Python articles to the blog. Initially there was a lot of visits for OpenMaint but that has dropped off, and I’m getting more visits for AutoHotKey v1 to v2 in VS

I am thinking about writing a book on Python scripting. I started to tinker with Text To Speech from PDF with python scripts and then looked at reversing the process from Speech to Text. There was a video on it so I found one and fossiked on my mobile for an Audi Recorder to create

I’m thinking about writing a book on python scripts and there are a few issues that are explained better visually by a video rather than in text. I thought, for an eBook I can give a link to the video, but if it was made into a paperback then a QR code would be easier