Adobe CS3 Installation Error 2739
Sunday, July 27, 2008, 06:19 PM - Misc Stuff
Are you having trouble trying to install your LEGAL copy of Adobe CS3 Premium on Vista? Are you getting that oh so informational error box of “ Internal Error 2739. Contact Customer Support.” Well, if you need the solution, then I got the answer for you.Find out what type of a system you are using; if it is Vista 32 or 64, then follow the instructions below.
For 32bit systems, the process is laid out below:
1. Choose Start > All Programs > Accessories.
Right-click on Command Prompt> select Run As Administrator, and log-in with an admin username/password if needed. At command prompt, You will see the text:
C:\Windows\System32>
2. After the prompt, type " regsvr32 jscript.dll " with no quotes. At this point, your command line should look like the line below:
C:\Windows\System32>regsvr32 jscript.dll
3. Press the Enter/Return key (new school/old school)
4. A dialog box that says “ DllRegisterServer in jscript.dll succeeded ” should appear, click the OK button.
5. Install your Adobe program to your heart's content.
64bit Vista is a little bit different:
1. Choose Start > All Programs > Accessories. Right-click on Command Prompt> select Run As Administrator, and log-in with an admin username/password if needed.
2. Go to your Windows\SysWow64 folder/directory (old school/new school). At command prompt, You will see the text:
C:\Windows\SysWow64>
3. After the prompt, type " regsvr32 jscript.dll " with no quotes. At this point, your command line should look like the line below
C:\Windows\SysWow64>regsvr32 jscript.dll
4. Press the Enter/Return key
5. A dialog box that says “ DllRegisterServer in jscript.dll succeeded ” should appear, click the OK button.
6. Install your Adobe program to your heart's content.
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Usage Licenses and Determining Usage
Saturday, April 5, 2008, 12:58 PM - Business of Photography
While reviewing the particulars of a client proposal that was sent to me a few days ago, I started thinking about something that has been coming up more and more in the proposals and talks I’ve been having lately. I’m starting to realize that for a lot of clients (and even photographers), the phrase “Usage Terms” is a bad word that shouldn’t be uttered without utter disdain and some scowling looks.As photographers, we are really eliminating a MAJOR source of income from our business revenue stream by avoiding the correct use of usage licenses. For the uninitiated, a usage license is a license given to a client that allows them to use a photograph under very particular conditions. You will notice that the key word here is “use” and not own. This difference means that the photographer doesn't sell the actual image; they sell the legal right to use the image according to the specific terms of the license. The photographer is still the legal copyright owner for the image but is allowing it to be used.
The cost of a usage license is affected by several things. What they are and why is listed below:
Duration – Duration is the length of time that you can legally use the image in question. Examples are one-time use, for one year, or in perpetuity.
Frequency – Frequency is the specific number of times that the image may be used. An example would be usage that allows an image to be used one time in twelve separate issues of a monthly magazine.
Views – Views is an important one as I feel it’s the one changed most often by clients behind duration. Views are all of the different ways that your image will be viewed during the license duration. Some examples are via website, via magazines, via newspapers, television, or even a combination of views such as via website and magazine. Although it plays a smaller part, you would also take into consideration things such as a magazine’s circulation numbers, or the number of times an image will be printed when determining usage fees.
Size/Placement – Size and placement are relatively simple to understand. It’s based on how large the image is. It does take into consideration the size of the media that it appears on because an image that is 80ft2 in total has a different “Wow” factor on a magazine page versus that same size on a billboard alongside a highway somewhere. The location or placement in the media also plays a major part. The front cover of a magazine is much more valuable then buried deep inside the magazine, never to be found.
Exclusiveness – The more unique your image is the more it is worth. If you happen to have an image of an elephant, you probably won’t get much, if anything, for it. Every time I go to the zoo, I take a picture of the elephants. It’s nothing exclusive because everybody else probably has one too. Now, if you happen to be at the zoo and that same elephant breaks out of its cage and smashes every camera except yours that day (elephants hate ambient lighting and your luckily using on-camera flash that day) and you manage to get a rather nice backlit portrait of the elephant, how much do you think that elephant image will be worth to news reporters, Fox News, and “When Animals Attack Pt. 22“.
Importance – The one is a rather difficult one to take in consideration because most times, you really have no ideal of an mages importance until AFTER the contracts have been signed, payments have been made, and media feedback starts to pour in. In short, importance is the value that a particular image adds to the overall end product. Quite difficult to define at times but something that should be considered also when determining usage fees.
There are several ways to determine your usage fees. You can use software, use the various organizational charts that are available or even search online for online versions. I have several links below that lead to calculators below that may help to guide you in the right direction regarding your usage license fee and other photography related costs in general.
NPPA.org's Cost of Doing Business Calculator
EditorialPhoto.com's Editorial Estimator v1.10
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What... no bookmarks in IE7 due to an "Unspecified Error"
Saturday, March 15, 2008, 11:56 AM - Misc Stuff
What... no bookmarks in IE7 due to an "Unspecified Error". Now that's an error message that is truly helpful (not to mention, prevents you from saving some mighty-fine reading for later such as this article)
What I'm talking about is a unique (can you say aggravating) issue dealing with Vista and something called "Integrity Level".
The problem occurs in Internet Explorer whenever a person tries to creat a bookmark. Usually a message would pop up stating that IE is "Unable to create [URL]. Unspecified error".
Now the nitty gritty as to why the error happens is somewhat simple in nature to explain. In Windows Vista, a new concept called "Integrity Level" is used. It means that every single process running on your computer is assigned a certain access level and a process cannot interact with another process that has a higher Integrity Level.
Now by default, most all files allow "Medium" or higher level applications to modify them. That's fine and dandy and works out great in most cases. Internet Explorer (in Protected Mode) however, runs at a "Low" level meaning that IE can only directly work with files with a matching "Low" integrity level. Nice theory but since most files and processes are set to "Medium by default, IE is stuck in a bad situation of needing access to something that's of a higher level. That's the gist of it all but more details can be found at:
Wikipedia - Mandatory Integrity Control
Microsoft MSDN - Understanding and Working in Protected Mode Internet Explorer
Anyway, the cure is actually quite simple. Windows has a command line utility named "icacls" that has a way for you to set the integrity level of something. To resolve the issue:
Open up a command prompt window by selecting "Run..." from your "Start Menu".
Navigate to C:\users\USERNAME (replace USERNAME with your login name unless your real name is Username at which case you have more serious issues in life to worry about than this) and run the following command on your favorites folder:
icacls Favorites /setintegritylevel (OI)(CI)low
Do remember that it is case and space sensitive so if you're having trouble, I would recommend you copy and past the text above into your open command prompt window.
BTW, the "(OI)" and "(CI)" are switches that allow your permissions to propagate (think inheriting) on a object and on a container (basically everything and anything). They officially stand for "object inherit" and "container inherit" for the techno-geeks. The "low" is the level assigned and in this particular case, we want a "low" level assigned to match IE in protected mode.
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