Category: Productivity

I was looking at a Wassat (Wellington Open Source Show & Tell) notice and looked back at one of the organisers, Grant, presentation on Bookmarklets on YouTube and slides. I thought it was an interesting idea and decided to explore it further. Basically you do add Javascript to the Address bar on a browser. This

Note- WordPress seems to be having issues (or maybe just me) with uploading some images. I’m not sure why as they are screenshots (and small) , but some images are missing in the article below. They are loaded into the WP Media library, but do not wish to be displayed. Apologies until I can rectify

I wrote an article on mapping a 2nd keyboard for macros, I’m using EvilC’s AHK method for doing so. See Mapping a 2nd Keyboard for macros (USB & bluetooth). This is using mainly AutoHotKey do do all the heavy lifting. You also need to code in all the maco’s into a script which you need

There seem to be a lot of time sheet apps on the web. A lot of them have a free service and also a paid service. So you have to log in to access them and also to store your data. There is this simple timer that just ticks along but you can’t store the

I recently compiled a .exe Time Capture application based on Joy’s AHK (AutoHotKey) App. As I was reflecting on how I used this app, in combination with Hellbent’s Stopwatch and started to consider combining a timer/stopwatch into the program. So I started looking in AHK forum for other Stopwatch scripts and also I’ve just come

I’ve been working on a project in BIM and I’ve got to the detailing part. Some of the cladding details are pretty standard and I have a lot of them in CAD format that I wanted to use using a link. The details needed some modification so I needed to use a cad program to

I want to create a AHK exe file that does timesheets for others. The idea being that I can create a simple timesheet app that writes to a file but is compiled as an exe so can be shared. The challange being that you need to give it project “names” and “codes” that are relevant

I saw Bynes RSS feed on Threadit a new video message service and looked into it a bit further. It is a bit like Loom but also allows others to clip their response to your video so that you get a more structured dialogue. It has a few interesting features. This article Google Area 120

From my generated inventory (using handheld barcode scanner) I have a file with my current status of what is in my freezer. This file sits on the tablet where the barcode reader sens the data. That is all well and fine, but I do not have it running all the time, so when I (1)

I wrote and article AHK Barcode and freezer Inventory to monitor my Freezer inventory. The idea was to test out an inventory structure and play with a handheld barcode reader. I did a video on it here: After creating the AHK script for that and testing it out, I then wanted to progress the idea