There is a problem with the label information you are trying to use. You may be able to correct the problem by repairing Office or by reinstalling the label information.

Please refer to the Microsoft knowledge base article 923184 for complete detail; however, is the the basis of the fix:

1. In Windows Explorer, locate the following folder: 

   Office 2007: 

   For x86: “drive:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office12\Pagesize”
   For x64: “drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\Pagesize”Office 2010:
   
   For x86: “drive:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Office\Office14\Pagesize”
   For x64: “drive:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office14\Pagesize”

2. Right-click the Pagesize folder, click
3. Rename, type a new name for the folder, such as Old_Pagesize, and then press ENTER.
4. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
5. In the list of currently installed programs, click either Microsoft Office Word 2007, Microsoft Office Word 2010 or Microsoft Office edition 2007, Microsoft Office edition 2010.
6. Click Change.
7. In the Setup program, click Repair, and then click Next.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923184

• it is faster – a compairson will have to following in another post
• the siri function: although this is fun to play with, it is not a HUGE factor
• the camera: which is what this post is really about

Here is the break down of the cameras:

iPhone 4:

• Resolution: 5.00 Megapixels
• Lens:  Non-Zoom (29mm eq.)
• ISO:  80-1000
• Shutter:  1/15-1/10055
• Max Aperture:  2.8

iPhone 4s:

• Resolution: 8.00 Megapixels
• Lens:  Non-Zoom (35mm eq.)
• ISO: 64-800
• Shutter:  1/15-1/30000
• Max Aperture:  2.4

So where are we going with this and what does it really mean?

Lets take an example and let you see the difference. Clicking the picture will open the full resolution in an overlay.

iPhone4 image:

iPhone 4s image:

Here is a 100% crop from each

iPhone4 100% crop

iPhone 4s 100% crop

1. You will need a registry file which can be downloaded here: click Extract the file and then double click it to add it to your registry.

2. Browse to this location:

C:\Windows\System32\oobe (“C” is your Windows Seven Installation drive)

3. Create a new folder named Info. Then, create a new folder inside the Info folder and rename it as backgrounds.

4. Copy the image file to this folder and rename it as backgroundDefault. Note that the image must be in JPG format and the size should be less than 256 KB.

5. When you reboot your system you will see the change.

The following files (sorted by width-to-height ratio) are supported in C:\Windows\System32\oobe\Info\Backgrounds folder:

* backgroundDefault.jpg
* background768×1280.jpg (0.6)
* background900×1440.jpg (0.625)
* background960×1280.jpg (0.75)
* background1024×1280.jpg (0.8)
* background1280×1024.jpg (1.25)
* background1024×768.jpg (1.33-)
* background1280×960.jpg (1.33-)
* background1600×1200.jpg (1.33-)
* background1440×900.jpg (1.6)
* background1920×1200.jpg (1.6)
* background1280×768.jpg (1.66-)
* background1360×768.jpg (1.770833-)

1. Click Start, type gpedit.msc and press ENTER

2. Go to the following branch:

Computer Configuration | Administrative Templates | Control Panel | User Accounts
3. Double-click Apply the default user logon picture to all users

4. Set it to Enabled

5. Exit the Group Policy Editor.

This policy setting allows an administrator to standardize the logon pictures for all users on a system to the default user picture. One application for this policy setting is to standardize the logon pictures to a company logo. If this Policy is enabled, the Welcome Screen uses the default user picture which is stored at %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\user.bmp. The default guest picture is stored at %PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures\guest.bmp. If the default pictures do not exist, an empty frame is displayed. To display your preferred image or the company logo, replace the file user.bmp (128×128 px) in the following folder:

%PROGRAMDATA%\Microsoft\User Account Pictures
Also note that if you enable the above Policy, you’ll see an empty frame at the top of the Windows Vista Start menu where the user account picture normally displays. And the Change your picture option in the User Accounts applet will be removed.

So I have a several domains setup to use Google apps, mainly for the email functionality. Google is transitioning to a new infrastructure

Google Apps accounts are transitioning to a new infrastructure. This big change is being made so Google Apps accounts can start accessing dozens of Google services beyond the core suite of messaging and collaboration apps……blah blah blah

The problem I had was that I use a lot of different Google services (Analytics, AdWords, AdSense, etc) and I have used the same email address for these accounts. This email address was part of my Google Apps. When my Google Apps was transitioned, I had a problem of conflicting accounts with the other Google serviced I used. When I tried to log on to my Analytics account, it told me that that account was in use by another user. I was effectly locked out of all of Analytics, AdWords, and AdSense. Anyone who used the free version of Google Apps, knows that it is impossible to get support on it.  I found a phone number for Google AdWords (because that make money directly off of the user there) and got sent on a wild goose chase trying to resolve my issue. I hit a dead end in finding a number for Google Apps Enterprise support (I use the free addition). So after hours of trying to figure it out, this is how I resolved the Google Apps issue of conflicting accounts.

This document was the catalysis to solving the issue.

Basically I had to clear all of my cookies and then log on to Google with a temp account: user%mydomain@gtempaccount.com – user%mydomain is the email address you were previously using with @ replaced by % (mine was user%mdsaba.com@gtempaccount.com), using the same password as before.

Then I went to the dashboard: https://www.google.com/dashboard/

From here you can: move data out of this account. It will take to you a two column screen and allow your to log on to your Google Apps account and move the data.

Problem solved. Thanks for nothing Google support.

Well, you may ask, what is ICC? In short, the International Color Consortium was setup to define a standard of color between different devices.  Let’s use digital photography as an example. When you take a digital photograph, without standards, it could look different on your camera, then on your computer monitor, then on the web, and also when you print. ICC was setup to define how it should look.  Device profiles provide color management systems with the information necessary to convert color data between native device color spaces and device independent color spaces.

This could go one for pages, but we will leave it at that and get to the good part: which web browsers are color managed.

• Safari is ICC Version 4 ready
• IE9 is also ICC Version 4 ready
• IE8 (and I assume below) is not color manged and does not support ICC profiles
• Firefox (up through the latest) is only ICC Version 2 ready. It use to be the standard for color managed browsers.
• Chrome is not color manged and does not support ICC profiles

Here is an interesting tidbit about Berkshire:

Legend holds that Oliver Cromwell discovered the Berkshire breed more than 300 years ago while his army was wintering at Reading, the county seat of the shire of Berks in England. Later, the British made a diplomatic gift of Berkshire pigs to Japan, where the meat rivals the reputation of Kobe beef. The oldest pure breed pig in the U.S., Berkshires are now considered a rare breed.

 

The pillow that looks like a Canon (or *yuck* Nikon) lens

http://www.plushtography.com/shop.html

Buy the The iPhone 4 SLR Mount at the Photojojo Store!

When I first read about this mount, my first thought was I HAVE TO HAVE THIS. Then I saw the price tag of $250, and then I really thought about it. If I want to take pictures with my beautiful collection of L glass, then I’m going to slap them on my full frame sensor. Putting a hefty lens on the iPhone negates its strongest point of being a pocket camera.

Don’t get me wrong, I would love to have this little device; however, I would not love it two-hundred fifty dollars worth. A few cool points would be:

• L glass on your iPhone = winning
• being able to shoot at f/1.2 on your iPhone
• fish-eye and tilt / shift lenses would be fun
• it would be a great conversation piece
• I might get ((a little)) more respect when I show up to photograph a wedding using nothing but the iPhone.
• it would make for great blogging / facebooking