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  • LR2/Mogrify – Adobe LightRoom (Plug-in)

    LR2/Mogrify by Timothy Armes is easy to use Adobe Lightroom plug-in is for those that want and need some pre-publishing work.

    “LR2/Mogrify is a post-process plugin for Lightroom 2 and later that can embellish your images as they are exported from Lightroom. It’s flexible interface allows you to add outer and inner borders, watermarks and text annotations to your images.”

    Personally, I use this export utility plug-in for adding Event/Location and Copyright info before posting to various services (Facebook, Flickr, Stock Agencies, etc.).

    Basically, this is a Graphical User Interface (GUI) for ImageMagick®, which is a well documented application for processing images:

    “ImageMagick® is a software suite to create, edit, and compose bitmap images. It can read, convert and write images in a variety of formats (over 100) including DPX, EXR, GIF, JPEG, JPEG-2000, PDF, PhotoCD, PNG, Postscript, SVG, and TIFF. Use ImageMagick to translate, flip, mirror, rotate, scale, shear and transform images, adjust image colors, apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons, ellipses and Bézier curves.”

    – Andrew
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  • Books: Adobe Lightroom – “The missing FAQ”

    I am always looking for good books on topics, so here are a few references:

    “Adobe Lightroom – The Missing FAQ” from Victoria Bampton

    As I find more, I will post them.

    – Andrew
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  • listsrv – PatchManagement.org

    If you are an Systems Administrator that is responsible for Patching and Updating Servers and Workstations, it is HIGHLY recommend that you subscribe to the FREE PatchManagement.org’s listsrv!

    PatchManagement.org is hosted by Shavlik Technologies, and is updated continuously!

    Since the “group” is geared toward Sys Admins, the conversation are very topical and technical and one can learn a great deal!

    Again, HIGHLY recommended!

    – Andrew
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  • Corrupt .Net (dotNet) files

    Recently, I have been running into some applications errors that can be traced back to corrupt .Net (dotNet) file(s).

    In some cases, using the “normal” Add/Removed (appwiz.cpl) will work, but in some EXTREME cases, you might need a little more.

    Aaron Stebner has an application for you!

    .NET Framework Cleanup Tool User’s Guide

    As Aaron mentions in his blog and guide, this tools will get rid of EVERYTHING, so before you use it, make sure you have installers available to you for the versions that you are deleting!

    – Andrew
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  • Excel/Word 2007 “The Document Information Panel was unable to load”

    Does the following sound like something you have had happen to you?

    “I select the Office button > Prepare > Properties, I get the message “the document information panel was unable to load”.”

    It seems that several folks have been running into this issue with both 2007 MS Excel and Word, and there is not a very good explanation of why it occurs, but a potential simple resolution for me was the following:

    1. Close your MS Excel/Word application;
    2. Copy the “IPEDINTL.DLL” from
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Designer Tools\Office\121033
    > to <
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\121033
    1. Re-launch the application, and try again.

    Thanks to the folks at: PC Review (UK), and Ben at Freewarecritic on Blogspot.com for the answer!

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