Category: Automation

I was looking up free productivity tools and came across the following video, unfortunately I’ll have to type out the code myself as there is no link for the code. This Looking at YouTube there was another video, and rather than just text expanding, it allows you to execute something, like a function or script

I’ve been following the growth and interest in chatGPT and its use. I’ve used it successfully for some simple coding and its giving me mixed results, but usually helps me find a way forward to the solution I’m trying to achieve, even if the code is wrong by offering alternative ways of doing things (eg

I pay my electricity bill weekly, its based on wholesale spot pricing, so can change quite a lot, quite quickly. I’m not quite sure what the underlying factors are that make it change so dramatically and the Electricity bill is not of much help. I sometimes look on the Electric Authority Website for wholesale prices

In Auto Logger and timesheet exploration with AutoHotKey and Python Part 1 I gave an overview of the project, in this article I want to go into the development of the background process of auto-logging computer activity on the PC. My initial start, as mentioned in the previous article was to start with the code

This is an overview of the project I’m undertaking trying to develop objectives and scope of the project. I made a YouTube Video on the topic which incorporates the first part of the project to date. In this article I’ll just do the overview and in the next article I’ll go into the logger script

The web page for the Tree Diagram Background story My daughter is a grower and she had information on the different generations of plants she is growing. She has a spreadsheet that she uses to show different strains of plants, grown initially from seed and then cloning the plants to get the best strains. To

I’ve been working on a project that has been going on for years, I’m picking up aspects of the project and doing some work on them and then leaving them for a while. I’ve had issues with finding the relevant documents later as I’m dipping in and out of the folders and moving things around,

I thought this was cool. VRSEAT for choosing Theatre seats. This is a cool extension on what I was playing with in Revit and 3d package, to show view from a specific seat, I’d used the ASB basketball centre on the waterfront for my example. My only comment is that you don’t see the seat

This seems interesting, using file size to check integrity of transfer and file is valid. from Wiki A checksum is a small-sized block of data derived from another block of digital data for the purpose of detecting errors that may have been introduced during its transmission or storage. By themselves, checksums are often used to

I’ve been looking at my book sales and KDP select seem to be popular for Translated books. I did translations before and have now forgotten how I did the process. So I’m revisiting the journey I made before I’d been trying to do it in Word but it doesn’t work too well. I then remembered