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The Axife display is neater, more compact, better thought out. So, what are the things I prefer about Axife, what do I think is better in Jitbit.and what's missing (so far) from both?

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The most important one is a single copy-and-paste from a line in Windows Notepad to a corresponding point in Propellerhead Reason, looped 1778 times 4. The other thing to notice is: I've put loops in the scripts. That's not just a bigger task - without automation I wouldn't even consider trying. Removing (or not recording) mouse movements and minimising delays means one wave takes about six minutes to transcribe - and all 466 should take about 40 hours.ДЄt a rough calculation, it would take me about 1000 hours, working nonstop to do the same thing the old fashioned way. I've also edited the scripts so the delays between keypresses are much shorter than humanly possible - though I need to introduce delays occasionally for things like filesaving, so the computer can keep up. In effect, the mouse pointer will jump instantly to wherever it's needed, and any actions like selecting text, copying and pasting are done with the keyboard.

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Now here's the same series of operations, recorded in JitBit Macro Recorder:Д«oth programs can record mouse movements, mouse clicks and keyboard activity, but for both I've recorded only the latter two. I've recorded a script in the Axife program, and the first screenful looks like this:

Each wave has 1778 points, and I need to open each file in turn, transcribe every point into another program, then save the result, and move onto the next file. Now, I'm working on a project at the moment where I've got 466 text files containing numbers describing the shape of different sound waves. Jitbit, incidentally, have an innovative marketing strategy, whereby if someone with a blog reviews their program, the blogger gets a free personal-use licence for it. I'm going to be looking at the Jitbit Macro Recorder, to see if its longer feature list and user friendliness are enough to make me switch from my trusty but crippled Axife demo.

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vTask is much more configurable, and its free little brother TinyTask (also in portable version) is great for quick-and-dirty task automation 3. There are a few good alternatives though. But it's still one of the most popular programs of its kind because, frankly, it's very good and most of the competition 2 is rubbish.

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I can't register it to get the full version because.the company I'd register with is long bankrupt. The one I use at the moment is called Axife Mouse Recorder, and it's free demo. And while they can't transcribe your handwritten notes or turn them into the polished prose of the novel you're trying to write 1, they can record your keyboard and mouse actions, help you fine tune them, and play them back in a loop. If only there were some program which could watch you do some thankless task on another program, once, then do the same thing, much quicker and without errors for a thousand iterations, while you go and do something interesting. The tedium of adding up a column of figures with a pencil has been replaced with the tedium of typing in a much longer column of figures, which are magically totted up by the spreadsheet. The other half is to help us do the things we did beforehand, but faster, better, or just more.ДЄll of which is a bit odd really, because most of the things we do sitting at a computer are repetitive, mindless tasks that require great precision and patience but no imagination or choices. Half the point of technology is to do away with that kind of drudgery. Exactly the kind which humans are no good at, and make working life unbearable. The kind that require great precision and patience but no imagination or choices.

Computers are good at repetitive, mindless tasks.