Archive for the 'Automation Tools' Category
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Jan
08
Jan
08
The Fastest Development Language Might Not Be The One You Suspect
I've been working on some behind-the-scenes software for my Unique Blog Content service recently. There is one piece of the process that uses an iterative text-processing routine, which then dumps the output to a text file. (If you're not a developer, that line might not mean much to you, but then this post won't be of interest either, so I won't explain what 'iterative' means). I wrote the code in AutoIt, and it took about 20-25 minutes to do 1000 files. "Too slow", I thought. So I re-wrote it in Visual Basic 6. It also took about 20 minutes, even when compiled into an executable, so top marks to the AutoIt team for matching Microsoft. I then re-wrote it ...
4
Jan
08
Jan
08
Logmein Cookie Problem
Slightly off-topic this post. I'm writing it because something been bugging me about the free LogMeIn service to access your PC from other PCs. I go to log in to LogMeIn.com's website at the remote PC, and I keep getting told that my browser is not accepting cookies. No idea why, as every other site works fine. In fact, even looking at the cookies, I can delete the one for LogMeIn.com, log in, and I see new cookies appearing. And LogMeIn support couldn't help. But I think I found a solution. 1. Open your browser and log in. 2. Open another browser window and go to the URL for your specific remote PC. That's it. For some reason that seems to work. I've ...
11
Jun
07
Jun
07
Auto Social Poster Shared Logins Plugin
I've just released another Wordpress plugin, useful if you're using or thinking about using the Auto Social Poster plugin to automatically submit your Wordpress posts to the social bookmarking sites (such as deli.icio.us, spurl, furl, simpy etc). What my plugin does is allow you to set up multiple Wordpress installs with Auto Social Poster, and have Wordpress automatically fetch your accounts from a CENTRAL URL just before it hands over to Auto Social Poster to submit to the bookmarking sites. Requirements: This plugin obviously only works if you have already purchased, installed, and activated Auto Social Poster. Download: To get this additional plugin free, see here. Installation: Installation of this plugin assumes that you have got Auto Social Poster up and running correctly. ...
18
May
07
May
07
Review: Google Cash Detective Report
Yes, another big product launch doing the rounds. Google Cash Detective or Google Cash Automator. Yes, that's an affiliate link. I've just finished reading the report, and it's a great example of the process that Chris Carpenter uses to A. Find profitable Adwords campaigns run by other people, B. Analyse their business model, C. Create his own Adwords campaigns D. Replicate the business structure It obviously talks about Chris' software to do this things (well, parts A and C), but to be honest, I can't even find an order link, so I'm not sure if the software is available or not. I suspect not at the moment. However, the free report is still worth reading, particularly about part B. It's got some good advice. Take ...
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May
07
May
07
Page Navigation Links For The Warrior Forum
I've just knocked up a page navigation plugin for the Warrior Forum, which adds text links, rather than those bloody drop down menus, for navigating from page to page in the forum. You need to use Firefox and install Greasemonkey, and then (once you've restarted Firefox, I think), use this link to install the Greasemonkey user script. Then just navigate to the forum, and near the bottom, you should see the usual Next, Previous, First, Last links, and links direct to the page numbers for a few either side of the one you're currently on. Like this: Let me know what you think.
