Category: Productivity

I’ve been exploring AHK a bit further, specifically in the area of using GUI’s to use an interface to help access information and do things. After looking at a few tutorials on YT I think I’ll need to get my head around some functions. As you need to action some sort of action to a

After getting into AHK I started to explore further. Auto close down script with hotkey One question I asked was can you close down a running script with a hotkey?, so a built in close command, and you can, a very interesting post on Stack Overflow “How do I stop an active AutoHotkey script?“. I’ve

Amazon Web Services(AWS) have just released Honeycode (https://www.honeycode.aws/), to help businesses develop apps without code. It allows you to have 20 people in a team (to share apps) and 2,500 rows of data and as many apps as you want. It works on mobile phones through its free downloadable app that you need to be

I was reading an article today “‘Clunky’ government covid app used ‘minimally’ in Marlborough, businesses say“ I thought about building one with GlideApps. Then I thought about it some more and realised that GlideApps does not actually access any of your Phones features, its only a web page. Then I saw the video below and

Watching YouTube vids I see people zooming in on their screens to highlight a specific part of the screen, which is usful sometimes, I think its done on Mac’s. I’ve wondered about a Windows tool that will allow you to Zoom in to part of the screen, also sketch on the screen and to clear

These are two useful productivity tools for windows users. The first has some handy tools that can be switched off until needed, the 2nd is something that I really want. Power Toys Power Toys is an interesting free Windows tweek app. There are some new features that look as if they can help productivity. I’d

Finding tools that will increace your effectiveness which do not disrupt your workflow are always useful. Ultimate Windows 10 tweeker (UWT) UWT is a free programme that allows you to tweek some windows 10 settings without having to use RegEdit and potentially stuffing that up. They are also easily reversable, so if you don’t like

My main blog site now has over 300 articles. It has been noticably slower this year. I’ve tolerated it but its got th e point where I have to have a more focussed look at it. Even opening the admin dashboard and opening a new post takes a while, which can be annoying when you

I’m looking at trying to host a node.js instance on something like Heroku and for pushing to Heroku I saw in the Code Train videos on deploying node that Daniel was using git commands to push the info across to Heroku. Another reason is that I’m sometimes working in the bedroom, sometimes in the living

Its been slower writing the last 100 posts compared to the previous 200. But I’ve got there, with this being the 300th post. You can view the actual table here. Your browser does not support iframes Slower because of other activities I’ve broken out of just exploring this area of posting and started doing a