Timberline Employee Blog

Microsoft recently released Pro Photo Tools for XP and Vista as a free download.

MS Pro Photo Tools is an easy way to edit your photos meta-data information. You photos already have several items stamped on them from your camera but they probably do not have longitude and latitude in the photo.

“Why would I want that?”, you ask?

Latitude and Longitude is how we mark a spot on the map. Say you are looking at your photos and you can’t remember where they were taken then this, or a similar program, is for you.

You will need a GPS so you can download a track log to your computer. Many hand-held GPS units will allow you to do this. I have had great luck with Garmin hand-held units. You will need to take your GPS with you and have it on while you are taking your photos.

For best luck synchronize the time on your camera and gps before shooting.

After you do a test photo shoot you will need to get your data to your computer. Copy your photos to a working directory on your pc. Then you can use a program like EasyGPS to download your track log as a gpx file. The makers of EasyGPS are the same people who have pushed the gpx format and made it popular.

Open up Pro Photo Tools and open your images. Load up your track log and now you can attach latitude and longitude info to your photos.

If you don’t want automated location information you can even skip the GPS and add this information using the built-in Microsoft Virtual Earth to select your location.

When you are done save your work.

Now how do I view the locations?

Version 1 of MS Pro Photo Tool’s will let you view photos on a map but it doesn’t auto center on a selected photo which makes it difficult to use to view already tagged photos. I had to resort to a third party program to view geotagged photos. Google’s Picasa/Google Earth combination work nicely. You can also click through to a Google map using Apple’s Leopard operating system on geotagged photos.

Timberline Dealerships sends another employee to Hawaii. No, not permanently but for a a vacation in the surf and sands of that beautiful ocean locked state.

Every year one employee is chosen out of all the employees who are recognized every month for outstanding customer service or just for helping out other employees. For the year of 2007 that employee is Marlin McCombs.

Marlin is a Specifier in the Parts Department. Many commercial parts customers already know Marlin. If you want to send him an email to see if there are any openings in his trip you can do so by clicking here.

Most companies have a number of business they deal with that offer support.

Why not make a help card that employees can refer to with the most common and/or most important two or three numbers called? Here is an example:

So now that we are third and fourth generation TV viewers it seems that the television is what people do during dinner as a whole.

Does anybody have a problem with CSI programming happening during dinner? 

I don’t know who to ask, so I’ll put this to you.  Do you think it makes more of a difference to hard core (meat is murder) vegitarians when CSI is on during dinner, or would it be pretty much the same results as the meat eating portion of the TV Dinner group?

 Or are you just appalled that people eat in front of the TV?

This wasn’t our best buy. The numbers looked good before purchase but I think we could have bought something a bit more sturdy.

Anyhow, I had to search high and low to get a drum code reset and here it is

#*C* - Enter 24-07 and Start - Then reset the printer.

It is as easy as that.