DeepThoughts

“I’m sorry Dave , I’m afraid I can’t do that.” - Hal 9000 - 2001 a space odyssey.

Artificial Intelligence may be the ultimate in automation,

but till its available I’m afraid we will have to make do with whats available.

Over at the Web Worker Daily which inspired this post, There was of some windows automation software. I wanted to point out some I use.

1.  Autohot key - this can automate keystrokes, mouse movements and assign them to
hot keys. It’s scripted but it can be complied into a very small executable. I have
successfully used this to automate some features of Novell’s notoriously clunky
console 1, which I use all day to manage Groupwise.

2.  Windows scheduler - I’ve set this up to remind me to do my time-sheet , by popping open an Internet explorer window with our time-sheet application ready and waiting for data. This is really good for weekly reminders.

If you know other good ones, please comment