Microsoft today has made available a new tool for photographers using Windows for their digital photos:
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools V1. This application lets you quickly edit the metadata on digital photos you've shot with your camera - including RAW formats.
Microsoft Pro Photo Tools also allows photographers to use geotagging for their photos. Geotagging is the ability to "tag" something with location information - and in the case of photos the location of where your photo was taken. You can quickly add location data from a GPS device or Live Search Maps to a photo's metadata.
Download: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools V1 (x86)
I use Windows Live Photo Gallery to manage all my photos. I'd like to note that changes in any specific photo' s metadata using Microsoft Pro Photo Tools will be reflected of course in Windows Live Photo Gallery - including title and tags.
You'll see here I've added a title, description, and keywords (aka tags) in Microsoft Pro Photo Tools to one of my photos.
In Windows Live Photo Gallery, you can see the title and tags I've added in Microsoft Pro Photo Tools are displayed in the Windows Live Photo Gallery UI (specifically in the Info pane). The metadata is also in the photo's properties as well.
In Windows Live Photo Gallery currently, the UI doesn't call out metadata for geotagging. But by geotagging your photos in Microsoft Pro Photo Tools now - it's in the metadata so in the future, that metadata can easily be called out by any app designed to call out geotagging from photos.
It's great to see us making investments in creating a better experience for photographers using Windows.
For further background on Microsoft Pro Photo Tools - CNET's Stephen Shankland was able to talk with Josh Weisberg, Microsoft's director of digital imaging evangelism, in a really nice in-depth post looking at Microsoft Pro Photo Tools including its origin and its future.
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Microsoft today has made available a new tool for photographers using Windows for their digital photos: Microsoft Pro Photo Tools V1 . This application lets you quickly edit the metadata on digital photos you've shot with your camera - including RAW formats. Read More......(
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The data speaks for itself. At the top of the list is Windows Vista 64-bit, while at the bottom is XP SP2. In the middle we have XP RTM, XP SP3, Vista 32-bit RTM and Vista 32-bit SP1 fighting it out.
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A recent Vista update is causing headaches for users with USB devices.
Microsoft last week re-released a software update intended to provide performance and reliability enhancements for Windows Vista -based and Windows Vista Service Pack 1-based systems. It was one of eight security bulletins and updates the company made available on April 8.
Users who installed the update, however, soon found their USB devices unresponsive, particularly mice and flash drives. Removing and re-installing the programs reportedly did not immediately solve the problem.
Microsoft confirmed the bug, but declined to provide further details.
"We are aware of concerns that a recent Microsoft update may be causing problems with USB devices," according to a Microsoft spokeswoman. "We are investigating the matter and at this time do not have any additional information to share."
"I have a new system that has been working flawlessly til this patch," a user known as SkyKnites wrote on a Google forum last week. His mouse was later restored, but now "I just get this annoying new hardware found and driver install has failed [notice] every time I reboot," he wrote.
A user known as JB also encountered problems. "I have exactly the same problem as described here, i.e. no cordless mouse and keyboard (via USB)," he wrote. "I run Vista x64 Ultimate which is in a dual boot with XP x64, this means (discovered it today) that my restore points gets whipped. Basically, I don't know how to uninstall the update causing the problem."
Microsoft shipped its first Vista security patch in January 2006 for beta testers running the Windows Vista December CTP (Community Technology Preview) and Windows Vista Beta 1, and warned that the operating system was vulnerable to a remote code execution flaw in the Graphics Rendering Engine.
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With the advent of Windows Vista at the end of 2006/the beginning of 2007, Microsoft has started pouring a consistent amount of efforts into enabling optimized desktops. Throughout 2007, and after the introduction of Windows Vista Service Pack 1, the Redmond company continued to fine tune a set of offerings bundled together under the umbrella of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) for Software Assurance customers. The Microsoft Management Summit (MMS) in Las Vegas was the stage where the software giant stressed its constant commitment to both optimized Vista desktops and virtualization.
“The combination of MDOP and Windows Vista gives customers the tools they need to support more flexible work environments for their users, while making it easier and more efficient to manage and maintain their networks. This is the concept we refer to as the optimized desktop, and many of our customers have the tools to realize the benefits today. We’re responding to the enthusiasm our customers have shown for these products by continuing to improve upon them and roll out new updates in real time”, revealed Shanen Boettcher, General Manager of Windows Product Management for the enterprise.
In this regard, Boettcher informed that the Redmond company is preparing the Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 Release Candidate 1 for delivery no later than June 2008. Microsoft’s Software Assurance customers will have access to the tool via Connect. According to Boettcher, the inherent benefits associated with virtualization are increasingly making sense to customers, with Microsoft Application Virtualization Beta counting in excess of 7,000 downloads.
Following the availability of Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 RC1, the Redmond company will move on by offering Asset Inventory Service (AIS) 1.5 as well as Advanced Group Policy Management (AGPM) 3.0 in the third quarter of this year. “AIS 1.5 will add license reconciliation, System Center Configuration Manager integration and scalability enhancements. AGPM 3.0 will provide Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 support (x86 and x64), globalization, more flexible security, enhanced reporting and an enhanced UI”, Boettcher added.
But as Microsoft’s focus is no longer limited to the U.S. market, the company now plans to introduce support for additional languages in MDOP. Boettcher enumerated no less than 10 localized languages for MDOP including Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, German, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
“We plan to release localized versions of Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) 6.0 and Desktop Error Monitoring (DEM) 3.0 SP1 in ten languages in Q3 2008. AGPM and Microsoft Application Virtualization 4.5 will follow toward the end of 2008″, Boettcher said.
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1. Download Windows Vista Recovery Disc
2. Windows cannot find svchost.exe
3. Windows Vista SP1 Security Vulnerabilities
4. Download Vista User Interface Language Packs
5. Vista SP1 Performance Analysis Tools
6. Show or hide all of your windows
7. How to turn off User Account Control (UAC) in Windows Vista
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If you don't partition your drive correctly before the OS install, you won't be able to install Bitlocker. This tool will create another volume to boot from so that you can get BitLocker set up.
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An excellent article on how to make UAC work for you, instead of turning it off and loosing all the benefits it can offer.
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Microsoft handing out USB keys that circumvent Vista security? I don't think so.
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The aging of XP and the uncertainty of Windows 7 mean businesses really have no choice: They have to move to Vista, whether they like it or not
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When you register a window class (with the RegisterClass or RegisterClassEx function),
you get an ATOM back.
What use is this atom? Not much . You can use this atom in many places where a window class name
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As far as design is concerned, size is synonymous to new technology. We can see these affecting parts such as the usual CRT monitors to the now famous LCD monitors. Hard drives have become thinner and memory modules smaller. So with all of the things getting micro bit by bit, you really have to consider the fact that the usual CPU storage can also ride the bandwagon for smaller is better today hoopla.
If you haven’t sent them yet, you will find a lot of new smaller and compact CPU storage design offered in the market. Some are the size of briefcases while others go as far as books. Amazed and awed by them, most people today are emphatic about these newly designed casings since it is really an obvious space saver if you come to think of it. Imagine a wider working space and just the usual LCD monitor, keyboard and mouse and a book-type of a CPU in front of you. Now that is a lot of good working space if you picture it.
The next thing you may have in mind is the matter of upgrading and compatibility. For sure, the parts used for these compact CPU cases have specific designs to which not all parts can accommodate. Normally, this is considered a limitation. But depending on how you use your computer, it is best that you consider the initial specifications prior to purchase so that in the end, you can determine if it is indeed feasible to invest on it or not.
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