AutoKey is a desktop automation utility for Linux and X11. It allows you to manage collection of scripts and phrases, and assign abbreviations and hotkeys to these. This allows you to execute a script or insert text on demand in whatever program you are using.
Tasker is an application for Android which performs Tasks (sets of Actions) based on Contexts (application, time, date, location, event, gesture) in user-defined Profiles, or in clickable or timer home screen widgets.
A powerful toolkit, and the sort of thing that gets the tinkerer in me lusting after an Android gadget.
Thanks to Michael, who sent me a a brace of great Android apps. I know that 1.26% of you are reading this on an Android device, and I’d like that number to go up: send me your favourites!
Fake is a new browser for Mac OS X that makes web automation simple. Fake allows you to drag discrete browser Actions into a graphical Workflow that can be run again and again without human interaction.