AutoHotkey – Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks

AutoHotkey is a free, open-source utility for Windows. With it, you can:

• Automate almost anything by sending keystrokes and mouse clicks. You can write a mouse or keyboard macro by hand or use the macro recorder.
• Create hotkeys for keyboard, joystick, and mouse. Virtually any key, button, or combination can become a hotkey.
• Expand abbreviations as you type them. For example, typing “btw” can automatically produce “by the way”.
• Create custom data-entry forms, user interfaces, and menu bars. See GUI for details.
• Remap keys and buttons on your keyboard, joystick, and mouse.
• Respond to signals from hand-held remote controls via the WinLIRC client script.
• Run existing AutoIt v2 scripts and enhance them with new capabilities.
• Convert any script into an EXE file that can be run on computers that don’t have AutoHotkey installed.

Getting started might be easier than you think. Check out the quick-start tutorial.

 

AutoHotkey unleashes the full potential of your keyboard, joystick, and mouse. For example, in addition to the typical Control, Alt, and Shift modifiers, you can use the Windows key and the Capslock key as modifiers. In fact, you can make any key or mouse button act as a modifier. For these and other capabilities, see Advanced Hotkeys.

 

Example:

Run Notepad
Run C:\My Documents\Address List.doc
Run C:\My Documents\My Shortcut.lnk
Run www.yahoo.com
Run mailto:someone@somedomain.com

#n::Run Notepad   \\ hotkey is Win+N

^!c::Run calc.exe   \\ hotkey Ctrl+Alt+C

Map 1 hotkey to run multiple commands

#n::
Run http://www.google.com
Run Notepad.exe
return

Wait for Program to finish

RunWait Notepad
MsgBox The user has finished (Notepad has been closed).

Sending keystrokes and mouse clicks

#s::
Send Sincerely,{Enter}John Smith
return

Activate and manipulate Windows

IfWinExist Untitled - Notepad
{
    WinActivate
}
else
{
    Run Notepad
    WinWait Untitled - Notepad
    WinActivate
}

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Blender is the free open source 3D content creation suite

Did you ever see the amazing CGI movies Pixar makes? Well, with Blender, you can make similar computer generated graphics that will amaze everyone.

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Text message Google for quick results

Text message your search query to 466453 (‘GOOGLE’)

New! Personalized SMS saves you time by saving your location. Google will automatically save your most frequently used location for future queries. Also you can text ’set location’ followed by zip to save a new location.

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Customer pitch vs Investor pitch

 

Investors care about some of the same things, but not to the same depth as a customer. Investors care about management teams, competitive advantages, competition, market size, cash flow, and how you will use the investment dollars.

Customer pitch needs to be different too,  for technical audiences versus business people.

• Technical audience wants deep technical content. They want to know how it works, how it integrates with what they already have, and why it is better. The technical people are usually advisors…they don’t have budget control and they don’t make the purchase decision. But, they can eliminate you from the approved vendor list.
• Business people care about solving business problems. They do NOT care about HOW it is done from a technical standpoint. Business people care about how your product or service will help them provide better products or services to their customers. They care about customers and business. If you are trying to sell a productivity product or service (better, faster, cheaper, smaller) it better translate in some way to customer benefits, not employee benefits. Business people have the budget and usually make the purchase decision

The 10 minute investor pitch can be very effective if done properly. The best presenters cover; what problem do we solve, what are the alternative solutions, why are we better, how big is the market, what have we accomplished so far, a sampling of customers, experience of the team,  how much money are we looking for, and financial projections. Nine slides in 10 minutes. Leave plenty of time for questions. Perfect!!

Excerpt from:

Customer pitch vs Investor pitch – TechCrunch40