Quite often, one of the relationships you depend on the most is neglected. Through thick and thin, good times and bad, sickness and health, this “significant other” is there for you when you need them. Like all strong partnerships, a little effort goes a long way, especially when it comes to your vehicle. This Valentine’s Day, the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Limited is reminding Canadians the importance of showing their vehicle tender love and care to ensure a happy, healthy, and long-lasting relationship.

Keep the wheels of love turning:

1. Be sure to give wheels and tires the attention they deserve.
2. Check your tire pressure regularly. Low pressure can result in poor fuel economy, handling, and comfort.
3. It’s all about balance. Having tires balanced and properly aligned ensures they last longer. It is also good to have tires rotated every 8,000 km to preserve their tread. The climate of your relationship is bound to change, much like the changing of the seasons. Tires should match the season you’re driving in. Remember, winter tires work best in cold winter conditions.

Keep that engine humming:

1. Properly caring for your engine will help make sure it gets turned on every time.
2. Check your engine oil level frequently. If the level is too high or too low, it can cause problems. Regular oil and filter changes are also very important in maintaining a healthy engine.
3. Remember to replace your timing belt in accordance with your vehicle manufacturer’s recommendations. Generally, it should be replaced about every 100,000 km.
4. Prevent overheating by checking coolant levels often. A cooling system flush and refill should be scheduled every 80,000 to 100,000 km.

Love that body.

1. Keeping the exterior of your car clean should not be underestimated when it comes to your vehicle maintenance checklist.
2. Prevent damaging rust by repairing paint chips and dents as soon as they happen. Wash and wax your vehicle regularly to prevent paint from fading and dulling.

Enlist a third party if necessary.

1. Even the strongest relationships require a little help from time to time. Relationship counsellors and mechanics are one and the same. If things don’t feel right, don’t try and ride it out.
2. Take your vehicle to your dealership on a regular basis to make sure things are running smoothly. Ford mechanics are factory-trained experts and can mediate and help solve any situation you may encounter with your vehicle.

Looking for a new partner to own the road with? Here are some qualities you should keep in mind:

1. Communication is key: Open lines of communication in relationships are of the utmost importance. The latest SYNC technology from Ford, will help you focus on the drive while keeping the lines of communication open with hands-free calling, audible text messaging and voice activated music to ensure driving safety, and satisfaction.
2. Unwavering trust and loyalty: Ford offers the latest in convenience technologies, making it easy to trust your vehicle. The Terrain Management System optimizes driveability and comfort as well as maximizing traction and Active park assist will help you get into those tricky parking spaces.

For further information:

For news releases, related materials and high-resolution photos and video, visit www.media.ford.com. Follow at www.facebook.com/ford, www.twitter.com/FordCanada  or www.youtube.com/fordvideo1.

Take this bit of CSS:

• Make sure that you create a folder in the folder where the CSS file is located. Call it images.
• Create a new file inside of images and called it: “header-background.jpg”

If you make the CSS relative to the page you will be in a world of hurt!

This review will be on the Lowepro Magnum 400 AW camera / lens carrying case. I bought this from my favorite Winnipeg camera store Dons Photo. I started off with an Ex 180 bag when I bought my first real DSLR camera which was a Canon T1i. While this bag was great for the Canon T1i and my two lenses 18-55mm and 55-200mm kit lenses it can no longer hold my new camera and gear.

When I first went looking around for a camera bag I wanted something that could hold a full sized camera with Battery pack, enough room for 3 or 4 “L” lens and a Speedlight or two. I planned that I would use this as my main storage device and if I just wanted to go out for walk I could always revert back to my EX 180 bag for something that was a bit more manageable.

After looking at pricing I didn’t go with the Magnum 400 AW at first. I chose the Lowepro Stealth Reporter D300 AW. I figured after seeing a video like this: What’s in my camera bag (Lowepro D300) I thought for sure It would hold my stuff. Unfortunately I can’t pack the bag like the guy because I prefer to keep my lenses in separate compartments. No matter how I tried I couldn’t get my stuff to fit in the bag.

As you can can probably tell where this is going. I ended up returning the bag the same day and bought the Lowepro Magnum 400 AW bag. First thing I have to say is while this thing is large it’s not stupid large. It also has the most incredible padding you’ll ever have the pleasure of carrying a bag with. I ended up reading more about this feature when I got home. I found out Lowepro has a patent pending on the strap padding. The strap padding takes the weight of the bag and evenly distributes the weight over the ENTIRE padding. This makes for the bag to seem incredibly light and easy on the shoulders.

I’m able to put ALL my camera gear in this bag. The only down side is the bag is a little bit large. As stated before I plan on using my EX 180 bag as my go to walk around bag where I know what lenses I will need.

All in  all I am very pleased with the quality of the bag and all the attachments  that came with it. It comes with a great memory card and battery holder. I am also happy I bought this at Don’s photo on Boxing Day as the price was insanely reduced. I would highly recommend this bag to anyone who has more then a couple of lenses and a ton of attachments.

One of the reasons why you might get the “outlook cannot log on. verify you are connected to the network” error is when there is a setting missing in the “Microsoft Management Console”. I recently worked at a client who’s PDC went south big time. Long story short they were getting the “outlook cannot log on. verify you are connected to the network” error every time they tried setting up a new user in outlook. Also if they selected a group from the Outlook Address Book (OAB) non of the contact of the groups would display.

The item that resolved this error for me was:

In Exchange Management Console, Right Click “Organization Configuration”and select “Modify Configuration Domain Controller”… setting.

A new window will open. Browse for the proper info. Active directory will need to be working as well as some kind of name resolution (namely DNS) in order to select the domain and domain controller properly.

Once done hit OK. You will need to restart the services or restart the whole server. I restarted the services and that was all that I needed to do. Some people have had to do a full reboot of the exchange server after applying these settings.

This was done on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 running on Windows 2008 64bit.

To import photos in Lightroom hit “CTRL+SHIFT+I”. The import window will open. On the top right hand side Click on “Apply during import” and select the preset you would like to apply to ALL photos during the import phase.

Click “Import” at the bottom right side of the screen. Lightroom will remember this setting once you have imported at least one picture.

Luckily Lightroom allows you to make presets. In Lightroom 3 Making a preset is very easy. When creating a preset it’s a good idea to make sure you haven’t applied ANY changes to the picture. I would recommend resetting the picture just to make sure that everything is back to the default settings. The reset button is on the bottom right of the main Lightroom screen when you are in edit mode. The reason you want to reset everything is that all the settings you’ve changed will be saved and applied to the preset.

Now change the settings you would like to have part of the presets. I will be increasing the Clarity and sharpening as per the screenshots above. Once you are happy with the settings you have made click the “+” button on the presets bar.

I would recommend that you click the “Check None” button and ONLY select the items that you have made changes to.

Since I only made changes to Clarity, sharpening, and Noise reduction I will check them off. Hit the “Create” button.

Now you should be able to apply these items with one click on the “JHH – Default Sharpening” preset.

If you are like me and want to be really lazy you can make Lightroom apply this preset during import so you don’t even have to click the “preset” name.

To learn how to do this check out my post “How to automatically apply a preset to a lightroom import”.

If you want to learn more about flash photography I would recommend buying his course.

1. Open a Command Prompt.
2. Type the following command to display the time difference between the local computer and a target computer, and then press ENTER: (without quotation mark) “w32tm /stripchart /computer: time.windows.com /samples:5 /dataonly”
3. Open UDP port 123 for outgoing traffic if needed.
4. Open UDP port 123 (or a different port you have selected) for incoming NTP traffic.
5. Type the following command to configure the PDC emulator and then press ENTER: (without quotation mark) “w32tm /config /manualpeerlist: time.windows.com /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update“

The computers that are joined to a domain are configured to synchronize from a manual time source. Please use the following procedure to configure a client computer that is currently synchronizing with a manually specified computer, to automatically synchronize time with the domain hierarchy. You may follow the steps to configure a client computer for automatic domain time synchronization

1. Open a Command Prompt.
2. Type the following command and then press ENTER: w32tm /config /syncfromflags: domhier /update
3. Type the following command and then press ENTER: net stop w32time
4. Type the following command and then press ENTER: net start w32time

You may also use Group Policy to make all the domain clients to sync time with PDC emulator in the domain. You may find the Group Policy settings used to configure W32Time in the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in in the following locations:

1. Configure Global Configuration Settings here: Computer Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service
2. Configure Windows NTP Client settings here: Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service\Time

Providers More reference: How to configure an authoritative time server in Windows Server 2003: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/816042/en-us

Windows Time Service Best practices: http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/en/library/517e74d7-40e9-41bd-93aa-48b610b936321033.mspx?mfr=true

Hope this helps you out!

Open Control pannel from the Start menu.

Type “language” in the search box at the top right of the screen. Click “Change keyboards and other input methods”.

Click on “Change keyboards”.

Make sure that you only have either English “Canadian” or “United States”. Remove Any “Multilingual” or “French Keyboards”. Use only one keyboard. I tend to find that this configuration works best for me.

Hit Apply and Ok. Voila. You’re done.