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Skip to content the-Automator Work Smarter, Not Harder!   Skip to content Home Contact Contact the-Automator About Us – Learn about the-Automator team Automation Resources Tutoring Consultations Project Work AHK Newsletter Privacy Policy AHK Merchandise Terms and Conditions AutoHotkey AHKCon / First ever AutoHotkey Conference AutoHotkey Books AHK V2 AutoHotkey Products AutoHotkey Webinars the-Automator’s Podcast AHK Podcasts The ultimate list of AutoHotkey Resources AutoHotkey Functions Controls in AutoHotkey Regular Expressions in AutoHotkey Quick Access Popup IE & AutoHotkey Outlook & AutoHotkey AHK Editors AHK Studio Notepad++ SciTE VS Code APIs AutomateMyTask COM Excel ➡️AHK Courses⬅️ General Autohotkey v2 AutoHotkey v1 Snipping Tool Downloads DOGE Search for: Search DOGE / Department of Government Efficiency – Increasing productivity of Government Employees by working Smarter, not harder Empowering Government Efficiency Through Automation: A Personal Mission After working alongside dedicated government employees, I’ve witnessed firsthand both their commitment to public service and the technological barriers & lack of knowledge that often hold them back from peak efficiency. Many government agencies rely on older software which do not have public APIs for automation.   This happens to be one of my specialties as older programs are easy to automate with AutoHotkey! As an automation specialist and the founder of the-Automator.com, I’m making it my mission to help the newly founded Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) improve the efficiencies of Government employees helping them work smarter, not harder. The Hidden Costs of Manual Processes Every day, government employees spend countless hours on repetitive tasks: Manually entering data across multiple systems Copy-pasting information between applications Navigating complex software interfaces Creating standardized reports and documents Processing routine requests and forms These manual processes not only slow down operations but also increase the likelihood of errors and reduce job satisfaction. The cost to taxpayers is significant, both in terms of reduced productivity and increased error correction. Automation: A Path to Better Government Service Through my experience implementing automation solutions, I’ve seen how the right tools can transform workflow efficiency: Reduced Processing Time: Tasks that once took hours can often be completed in minutes/seconds Enhanced Accuracy Automated processes eliminate common human errors in data entry and transcription Improved Employee Satisfaction: Staff can focus on meaningful work instead of repetitive tasks Better Public Service: Faster processing times mean better response rates for citizens Cost Savings: Increased efficiency leads to direct cost savings for taxpayers Reduced Physical Risk: Many repetitive tasks end up taking a toll on the people doing them. Automation let’s the humans “make decisions” and have the computers do what they do best (execute the process). A Customized Approach for Every Agency Whether you’re a small township office or a large federal department, every government entity has unique needs and challenges. I specialize in creating customized automation solutions that: Comply with all relevant security protocols and regulations Integrate seamlessly with existing systems Require minimal training time Show measurable results in productivity and accuracy Scale according to your agency’s needs My Commitment to Public Service As someone who has worked closely with government employees, I understand the unique challenges and constraints of public sector work. I’m committed to helping agencies: Identify opportunities for automation Develop custom solutions that meet specific needs Train staff effectively on new tools Measure and document efficiency improvements Achieve meaningful cost savings Ready to Improve Your Agency’s Efficiency? If you’re interested in exploring how automation can benefit your government agency, I’d love to help. I offer: Free initial consultations Custom automation assessments Tailored solution development Staff training and support Ongoing technical assistance Contact me to discuss how we can work together to enhance your agency’s productivity and better serve the public. You can also schedule a call here Joe Glines Automation & Efficiency Specialist Joe@the-Automator.com *  Note: This initiative is independent and not affiliated with any government entity. All solutions are developed in compliance with relevant government security and privacy standards. November 14, 2024 November 14, 2024AutoHotKey Department of Government Efficiency, DOGE, Elon Musk, government, Vivek Ramaswamy AutoHotkey Newsletter 2024-11-14- Giving Peter Drucker the Finger Howdy, The great management guru Peter Drucker cautioned against efficiency at the expense of effectiveness. It was, and is, a brilliant caution. However, with AutoHotkey, you can actually ignore Drucker’s caution Using AutoHotkey you can both improve efficiency and effectiveness in concert❗ To be fair, the world has changed since Drucker became famous.   Sadly much of the world still trys to work harder, not smarter.   With AutoHotkey you can realize that While time is linear; Success doesn’t have to be! When we decide to automate a process we are putting ideas into code. When done properly there is no limit as to the multiplier of how much more can be done! And done as many times as we like.   Employees want coffee breaks, vacations, sick days and even (occasionally) want to sleep! Computers bring their “A-game” All-day; Every day❗ I’m not saying that computers can replace your employees.  But they definitely can free them up to work on the things humans do best and let things we can “bottle-up and put in a program” left to computers to do. And with AI, it’s becoming easier and easier to automate the mundane!  AI is a huge topic we frequently talk about during the Hero calls and our Private Telegram group. If you’re wanting to jump into AI, the AHK Hero group is a great place to get your feet wet! Now on with the show… Confirming Better Ways to use AI to Automate your PC than Screen Shots! This morning Irfan and I took ~10 minutes and conducted the following test: 1) We used the “dump all” method from the UIA class to build a “structure” of AHK toolkit. 2) We fed Claude Descolada’s UIA class, and the above structure, asking Claude to provide us AHK v2 code to activate the “HotStrings” tab. Claude took the data, pondered a bit, and provided AHK code which worked perfectly So our hopes are (somewhat) confirmed true. We don’t, necessarily, have to rely on Image search for AI to automate our computers! I can’t wait to repeat this with Controls, COM and a few other approaches. I cover some of the plans in the following video The future of Automating your PC Toggling Do Not Disturb The more I study successful people, the more I realize how important it is to carve yourself out time to focus. Blocking out “the noise” was the primary reasons I had Irfan create a tool to easily toggle Do Not Disturb mode. But, what I realized is, I’d rather just leave Do Not Disturb always on and just respond to client / friends / inquiries when I choose to. You can check out this video to learn more. How to easily Toggle Do Not Disturb in Windows 11 Improving People’s Lives: Story #25 A client’s tool people was letting people schedule automations.   Unfortunately it didn’t, automatically, take into account the length of time the previous program would require which was forcing users to do “mental math” on times . I asked Irfan to change the scripts so it: check’s what was scheduled last “looks up” how long it typically takes Adjusts the proposed time to take that into account Now users will not need drain their brain trying to determine when the next item should be scheduled. We did built it in a way so people can still change the scheduled time so it is super-flexible. What we’re reading Is Alexa Plus the upgrade we’re all waiting for❓ What does Alexa and Echo know about you? How to Create & Use an Email Template in the new MS Outlook AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage Google is building smart home controls into Gemini Scale personalized outreach with better data enrichment with Clay.com Claude now, in beta, accepts PDFs Google created Learn About ⚡️Productivity tips: Ctrl + Shift + S: Apply the Styles command in Microsoft Word, opening the Styles pane to apply or modify text styles. A spot of Humor: Hungry Hippo rules! My son, Jon, is in his senior year.   They had a pep-rally the other day and all parents were invited.  My wife, Cathy, and I went and both signed up to participate in games. Sadly they had too many parents want to participate so I wasn’t called but my wife was!   Here’s a short video of Jon and Cathy competing on a “live version” of hungry hippo. Jon & Cathy playing Hungry Hippo What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #63 This week I discussed 137 scripts we’ve worked on this week.   The world of AI is continuing to explode and we touch on some of the current tools we’re building for clients in this week’s episode of what we automated with AutoHotkey. What we automated with AutoHotkey #63 Client’s say… This is insane!   Thank you!  — Cathy Glines (My wife) AHK Hero Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 336 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗ During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss: Having AI Automate your computer using UIA or Controls instead of image search Lessons learned Submitting PDFs to Claude & performing OCR on them How to properly include a DLL file on scripts you are compiling GUI Edit control: How do you know when a person stopped typing❓ Adjusting GUI controls (Up/Down) so take into account Scrollbar Width They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.) ️ Quotable quotes Decisions without actions are worthless — Dan Kennedy Success comes from failure. Not from memorizing the right answers. — Donald Trump Clarity is freedom. Know what’s important to you you’ll be free to ignore everything else — Joe Glines Curiosity can empower or impede you — James Cleary ⏩SHARE WITH A FRIEND⏩ Do you know someone that would benefit from learning useful automation tips like the gems in today’s issue?  Take a second and forward this newsletter and bask in the glow of their undying gratitude.  Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up for this Newsletter here.  We never share your email with anyone.  Ever! The-Automator Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff P.S. While the subject line was a bit flippant, I do think the vast majority of people are not automating nearly enough. Once you realize, in one way or another, the activities we do all the time really are very, very similar you’ll realize that automating it is much easier, and beneficial, than you think!  Check out my calendar and book a time with us to see how we can help you. November 14, 2024 November 14, 2024AutoHotkey Newsletter ahk news, AutoHotkey News, AutoHotkey Newsletter AutoHotkey News 2024-11-07- You are NOT Alone❗ Howdy %Name%, The vast, vast majority of people that use AutoHotkey do so in a silo . Yes, they might visit one or two forums / social groups, but they rarely talk to other AHK users. Isaias and I have been using AutoHotkey for a collective ~30 years and we still learn from each other everyday! This has more to do with how humans think than it does with being an expert. When we begin working on a project we’re constantly throwing ideas / approaches out as to which way we’ll solve a given problem. We know 19 ways to automate programs with AutoHotkey however that’s really not what I’m referring to here. This has more to do with clarifying the goal, understanding the target customer, and determining if we’re creating an easy to use solution for them. Having other people to bounce ideas off of, get pointed in the right direction and to have “experts” that truly know what they’re doing are the core reasons we created the AHK Hero group! We have 3 hours a week where we discuss ideas and approaches with our members. If members don’t have questions we start providing mini-lectures on how we’ve solved interesting problems with AutoHotkey. Of course our Private telegram group is available where people can ask questions during the week. Our AHK hero’s are a great group that help & learn from each other You really should join!   I guarantee your automation skills & knowledge will really take off! I’ve removed most of the risk as the first month is a super-low price❗ If you’re “on the fence” about joining, here is a link to a lot of the “Objections” people come  up with as why they don’t join.   I highly recommend you check them out because, if you’re reading this, you really should be a member! Now on with the show… Automating your PC with Anthropic’s Computer Use Last Friday, before the normal AHK hero call, we invited AHK hero members to attend a special session where we showed how to download & configure the Docker image from Anthropic for running Computer Use. The session went well and showed the future of AI being able to automate your computer (granted, in this case the Docker image was a Linux environment but it’s a good start. We did the event as a “special session” so we could share it on with non-hero members.  You can check it out here. Yesterday Isaias and I played with Claude’s computer vision class and tested to see if we could incorporate it with AutomateMyTask. Using AI to automate your Computer: How to Configure Docker & Computer Use from Anthropic Not surprisingly, we were able to feed it images and then ask AI where it found them.  This is great because, in general, we stay away form image search as it is not reliable (especially across computers) however having AI do the search makes all the difference in the world. You can think of the AI as doing a “fuzzy match” on each computer Thus it will not be so error-prone. Good things to come of this that is for sure! The future of Automating your PC Continuing on form the previous discussion, in this video I outlined our overall goals as to what we want to create.  Currently AI is sending keystrokes / mouse clicks. AI is basically imitating a human! We know of 19 ways to automate things and the current two it is using are, by far, the worst! The future of Automating your PC Texting from your Phone with Phone Link If you have an Android phone, Phone Link is a built-in way to easily connect your phone to Windows.  I constantly send/read texts from my phone. A lot of people (me included) had issues with Phone Link.   It took a lot of searching but I finally figured out how to fix it and Isaias and I made this video. From Frustration to Success: Watch How we Fixed Microsoft Phone Link❗ Improving People’s Lives: Story #24 Connie, an AHK hero member reached out to us asking for help using AI to perform OCR on newspaper clippings.  Lucky for Connie we already had a tool that does 95% of what he wanted. So this morning I’m having Irfan add the typical “bells and whistles”.  Things like: Let users select their trigger (Mouse click & Hotkey) Select your AI (Chat GPT or Claude) Select the Model Add their AI token If the data resembles a table, push it into a Listview Adjust the prompt that drives it We should have it out by time you read this. We added Claude because, according to this article, it is amazing at OCR. What we’re reading How to fix Wi-Fi Won’t Connect How to Create / Use an Email Template in the new Outlook Google maps is getting Better With Gemini 5 Handy Android Features AI / Chat GPT-3 News / Usage YouTube will use AI to snip copyrighted music and not silence your whole video Claude’s analysis tool Open AI expands Realtime API with new voices & cuts prices LinkedIn upgrades its Recruiter with an AI Hiring Assistant ⚡️Productivity tips: Ctrl + Shift + F11: Insert a new worksheet in Microsoft Excel A spot of Humor I was on a client call the other day and something she said reminded me of this video which, I guarantee, will force you to laugh out loud! Didn’t quite think this one through What we utomated this week with AutoHotkey #62 Watch me show off AutoHotkey’s magic! In this video I discuss how we’re fixing errors to automating reports, learn how this tool can make your daily grind way easier. ✨ What we automated with AutoHotkey #62 Client’s say… “That’s insane❗I had no idea you could do that with AutoHotkey.” — Josh Smith AHK Hero Consider joining the AHK Hero club! Members receive 25% off courses, consultations, tutoring, done for you project work, etc.    Currently we have over 333 hours of recordings teaching AutoHotkey that is exclusive to AHK Hero members❗ During this Friday’s call we’re planning to discuss: Help AHK Members with their code How to open Excel files without having Excel Microsoft’s Update to the Context menu in the Edit Control Accessing a Hidden GUI with Controls verse UIA Planned AI use for AutomateMyTask Adding tooltips on disabled buttons– Using groupbox or another control to “fake it” How to properly include a DLL file on scripts you are compiling GUI Edit control: How do you know when a person stopped typing❓ Adjusting GUI controls (Up/Down) so take into account Scrollbar Width They also have access to exclusive & pre-released content and a 3 hours a week where we help people with their AHK issues (the Saturday calls are geared towards people new to AutoHotkey.) ️ Quotable quotes While success is often cooked up in a messy kitchen it cannot be sustained in one — Dan Kennedy Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about the processes that lead to those results . — James Clear The thing most people like least is a mirror — Dan Kennedy ⏩SHARE WITH A FRIEND⏩ Do you know someone that would benefit from learning useful automation tips like the gems in today’s issue?  Take a second and forward this newsletter and bask in the glow of their undying gratitude.  Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up for this Newsletter here.  We never share your email with anyone.  Ever! The-Automator Joe, Isaias, Irfan, Rizwan and staff P.S. Remember you’re not alone in your AHK journey!  We’re here if you need help and have plenty of ways for you to get it!   Reply to this email if you’d like to have a chat!  Or take a look at our calendar and see when we have time that is free for you. November 7, 2024 November 7, 2024AutoHotkey Newsletter ahk news, AutoHotkey News, you are not alone How to Setup Docker and Anthropic Computer Use Docker and Anthropic Computer Use In this pre-AHK Hero call we show our AHK Hero members how to Download & install Docker and how to Build an image to use Anthropic’s Computer Use. In this AutoHotkey Hero call, Joe Glines and Isaias Baez discuss the installation and setup of Docker, particularly in relation to using Anthropic’s API for automation tasks. They cover the differences between Docker and traditional virtualization, the installation process, and how to configure Docker images and containers. The conversation also touches on the security implications of using AI in a Docker environment and the potential for automation using AutoHotkey. Configuring Docker and Computer Use from Anthropic Key Points – [00:00:00] Introduction – Joe and Isaias greet the members and set the context for the call. – Mention of the pre-hero hour and the focus on a cool topic related to computer use from Anthropic. – [00:02:23] Overview of Anthropic’s API – Discussion on the capabilities of the API, including sending screenshots and getting locations. – Joe expresses skepticism about using the API directly but acknowledges its potential. – [00:04:46] Installation of Docker – Isaias outlines the steps for installing Docker on Windows. – Emphasis on the straightforward installation process and the importance of Docker as a virtualized environment. – [00:07:09] Understanding Docker’s Functionality – Isaias explains how Docker creates virtual locations using computer resources. – Introduction to the concept of Docker images and containers. – [00:09:32] Differences Between Docker and Virtual Machines – Joe compares Docker to traditional virtualization, highlighting that Docker uses resources more dynamically. – Isaias adds that Docker allows for more flexible resource allocation compared to virtual machines. – [00:11:55] Building Docker Images – Isaias demonstrates how to build a Docker image from a Dockerfile. – Discussion on the importance of exposing ports in the Dockerfile for proper functionality. – [00:14:18] Running Docker Containers – Explanation of how to run a container from the built image. – Isaias discusses the need to configure ports and environment variables when launching a container. – [00:16:41] Interacting with the Docker Environment – Isaias shows how to interact with the Docker environment and run commands. – Discussion on the limitations of the Docker environment, particularly regarding social media interactions. – [00:19:04] Using AI for Automation – Isaias demonstrates how to use AI to automate tasks within the Docker environment. – Emphasis on the AI’s ability to make decisions based on the environment. – [00:21:27] Security Considerations – Discussion on the security implications of using AI in a Docker environment. – Isaias mentions the importance of restricting AI’s access to the host machine. – [00:23:50] Troubleshooting Docker Issues – Isaias shares experiences with troubleshooting errors in Docker. – Discussion on the need to rebuild images if containers are stopped or encounter errors. – [00:26:13] Final Thoughts on Docker and AI – Joe and Isaias reflect on the potential of using Docker for automation with AI. – They discuss the balance between functionality and security when using AI in automation tasks. – [00:28:36] Conclusion – Joe wraps up the call, inviting members to ask questions. – Mention of the ongoing support available for AutoHotkey and automation problems. Brief Summary The call provided a comprehensive overview of Docker installation and configuration, particularly in relation to using Anthropic’s API for automation. Joe and Isaias discussed the differences between Docker and traditional virtualization, the importance of security, and the potential for AI-driven automation. The session concluded with an invitation for further questions and support for AutoHotkey users. November 1, 2024 November 1, 2024AutoHotKey anthropic, anthropic computer use, computer use, docker 123›» Account Register Log in My Account Subscribe to Deals! 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