iMacro is an amazing piece of technology and it can help you automate any of your web browser-centric tasks. They have some great examples, a good documentation wiki, and an active support/user community.

Big Savings in Time and Money

We have been big users of this technology for over a year now and have found that it can pay for itself more quickly than an other product we've used. In one recent project we replaced three months of work by 14 people in a data entry center in India ($16,800) with 2 days of programming ($4K) and an enterprise copy of iMacro ($699). We then let six computers chug away for 10 days.

Do the math - time saved and money saved.  The bi-fecta!  What is your time worth?

Review of Technology

We'll do a review of iMacro and why we think it is the technology to pick for automating web based tasks, but for now let's just review the installation.

Download Instructions

Go to iMacro and click on the download link:

 

Then download the iMacros Version 6:

Save the file:

 

Installation Instructions

Go wherever it is you save files when you download them and double-click the "imacros-setup.exe" file. Walk through the normal Windows installation procedure, accepting all the defaults.

When the install is complete you may see a reboot notice. This seems to occur depending on the status of installed Microsoft updates. I tend to NOT reboot at this point but to go onto the next step:

 

 

Make sure you check the, er, checkbox for Clean Install and then click “Start the iMacros Browser.”

You'll see, well, you'll see the iMacro browser. Basically it's a windows program that has the IE browser built in.

Yep, I know what you're thinking: you can do a lot with that. Yes, you can.

Final Step

Now check your desktop for these three icons:

At this point, if you got the ‘reboot’ notice earlier above you can reboot your computer.

Congratulations, your iMacro is fully installed.

Now

If you’re here because you were in the midst of installing some of our tools, well, for gosh sakes, get back where you belong and finish!We'll start posting some handy iMacro code soon, stay tuned.