Keyboard & Mouse Automation

Computers have become an indispensable part of life for most of us, whether we like it or not. While their benefits in terms of efficiency and convenience are undeniable, so is their impact on humanity almost as great as the discovery of fire and wheel.

But like everything else in this world, they come with their own set of problems too. And no, I am not talking about Computer Crashes

I am instead referring to their far more serious impact on our health, and in particular to RSI – Repetitive Strain Injury.

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Tout utilisateur d’un ordinateur, qu’il soit néophyte ou expérimenté, va un jour connaître les bienfaits des raccourcis clavier, et les adopter tout aussi rapidement. Le bon vieux copier-coller, une fois acquis avec la touche Ctrl, permet de sauver de précieuses secondes dans la vie du programmeur comme dans celle de la secrétaire.

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Every single computer user – beginner or savvy – will experiment someday the benefits of using keyboard shortcuts, and adopt them fast enough. The good old copy-and-paste, used with the Ctrl combination key, allows saving precious seconds in the lives of both a programmer and a secretary.

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In my opinion, one of the most useful applications included with Windows is their calculator. But the one thing that always chafed was the long access path.

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AutoHotKey is a really useful software, but I am sure at some point you have felt irritated about launching the scripts manually every time you re-start your system.

After all, how are you supposed to remember to run all the scripts each time you re-start your PC or even where you stored each one of them.

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The fact that we constantly have to type the same commands over and over again is time-consuming. Do you remember all those complicated sequences like when you want to access your log files, restart apache, open and edit your configuration files in your dedicated Web Server? How many times do you have to type “nano /var/log/apache2/access.log” without making a mistake? Wouldn’t it be a dream to have something else type all this for you?

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