Author: Andrew

A Father, Photographer and Computer Geek living in Chester County (PA).

My Photo Journal of images taken in Chester and Lancaster Counties, including Covered Bridges, Barns, Nature, Fine Art and Events. Images can also be found on VisitPA.com and ExplorePATrails.com.

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Utilities

Microsoft RichCopy

TechNet Utility Spotlight – RichCopy

In the April 2009 print version of Technet magazine, one of the Utility Spotlights is RichCopy.

In another posts, I have mentioned that I have had some issues getting Robocopy to copy files from one internal HD to and external HD on a W2K8 box, so I decided to give RichCopy a test drive.

After the ‘no-brainer’/default install, and a quick setup for repeatable jobs, I was able to do the needed “poor-man’s” backup that I was NOT able to do with Robocopy!

Another very interesting aspect of RichCopy, is that multiple “treads” can and are used to reduce the copy time between source and destination.

I am still testing RichCopy, but for an out-of-the-box experience, I would recommend it!

In another interesting side note, take a look at the read me that comes with the unzipped/installed package!

– Andrew
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Gadgets Networking Reference Utilities

OnLine IP4 to IP6 conversion

Here is a link to an Online IP4 to IP6 conversion utility.

<http://ip-lookup.net/conversion.php>

Happy Ping-ing!

– Andrew
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Add-Ons Reviews Software

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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Adobe Reference

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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Reference Tech Talk

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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