2012-07-12

Do you run in to situations on a regular basis where you have to track packages, update customers and make sure equipment arrives on time? And does your company have an antiquated system to handle those types of situations? If you said yes to those, you might like this… AutoHotKey continues to be one of my favorite applications for automating certain functions. It has a great ability to minimize the things that you do repetitively; good or bad. So, one day I realized that I was doing something over and over again, which is tracking packages, and I like to use a website called PackageTrackr.com because it automatically detects the type of tracking number that you’re inputting and then returns tracking information; it includes a Google map showing the source, destination and in transit locations. it really doesn’t matter what the track number is for the item that you’re trying to track, because the website has probably the most simple URL for tracking packages… http://www.packagetrackr.com/track/YOURTRACKINGNUMBER You simply take your tracking number and tack it on to the end of the URL, like I have listed above, and the website will return a response… But to make it even easier, it’s...

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