Category: Automation

I saw this video and the little bit that he showed for WordPress got me enthused into trying to setup stuff in AutoHotKey and in aText. A few of the samples are below. The one thing I find a nuicance in WordPress is headings and the popup for that with aText with z4, z3 for

I’m hunting around for a color accordion/spoiler as the current one is gray and a bit bland. I found the ultimate shortcode plugin had extra css to put in and that got the job done, I’d tried a few other plugins including Cosmic Blocks but am really happy with the solution as it reduces extra

I have a multi-pronged approach to investigate at this point: Identifying and testing the software keys and getting them to work Making them generic so that I can share them Look at licensing file setup for program and start testing/compiling/testing- Yearly subscription or buy outright? Look at modular add-ons for program- basic plus add-ins to

I am writing a post on translating the first eBook into Chinese and so started to use the auto-generated English Subtitles from the YouTube Shorts videos and downloaded the timed captions text in .sbv format, that I pasted into a Google Spreadsheet and used formula =GoogleTranslate (Text, Source language, Destination language) and setup a to

I’ve been having problems with trying to setup accounts from the email server I’ve setup on my Contabo VPS. So I haven’t been using them recently. Its been a bit annoying as they are handy for when sites do not want a public email like gmail or hotmail, so you set one up from your

This is a productivity tool similar to QAP (Quick Access Popup) and you can trigger a pop-up menu with a hotkey or a mouse gesture. There is an editor where you can put a list of things like files/folders/URL’s etc , the nice thing is there is a little memo pop-up as well. I found

This program’s website seems to be defunct. So I think its not on sale anymore. A shame as its a pretty smart & versatile program and has its own scripting language for some tasks. It is basically a clipboard where you can save items for use later and do things with the items that you

I saw the following video and was interested in the FreeFileSync tool for syncing between my bedroom PC & main PC for AHK Working directory. I’m always updating them to the NAS so that I’ve got the most current files. This has an appeal in that it doesn’t suddenly start doing a backup just when

I think I have an idea that may be worth selling. So I need to develop a course around it . I’ve decided to use Notion to write up the structure of the course and am considering looking to use Udemy to host the course. The course was submitted to Udemy for review & approval

I did some enthusiastic demo’s with aText and I’ve ended up with a lot of silly abbreviations that are disrupting my writing. So I’ve had to start considering how I’m using the program. Also I did an AlternativeTo with AutoHotKey’s and wrote similar keys that did the same action as the aText keys. But not