What is Office 365?

You may have heard those two words quite often recently and you want to know exactly what they mean without to much marketing between the lines.

Office 365 is a set of productivity tools offered by Microsoft as a subscription. You pay per user, per month or per year and get the following for your organization:

• spam free e-mail with access from a web browser, Office Outlook, a smartphone like iPhone, Android, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Symbian or any e-mail client. You also get personal and shared Contacts and Calendars - this is called Exchange Online
• documents stored in a central web location securely accessible from a PC, a MAC or a web browser (IE, Firefox and Safari officially suported, others work too). You can attach workflows to those documents so people interact with them in a predefined manner - you get this from SharePoint Online
• lists (for example an Asset Inventory, an Issues Tracking mini-app) - also from SharePoint Online
• intranet (you can publish internal know-how, documents, links, pictures or any kind of files) - from SharePoint Online
• public website - also from SharePoint online
• instant messaging and web conferencing - offered through Lync Online

If you want to take them for a spin, it takes 30 seconds to set up a trial.
More info from the vendor here.

Install Canon EOS Utility Updater without the original CD

As you might have found out, you canot just download the original Canon CD that came with your camera from the Canon website nor can you download any individual piece of software like the EOS Utility or Digital Photo Professional on  their own as the full application - only "Updater" versions exist that require you to have an existing version already installed.

It might happen that you lost the CD that came with the camera or it's just late in the night and you don't want to wake everybody while searching through old boxes with stuff after you just moved.

Guess what, that's only a trick, actually you get the full installer by downloading the updater, all you have to do is add some registry keys to make the updater think you have it already installed.

I'll only post the keys required for Windows 7 x64, but you cand find the rest here.

Just paste the following in a text file, add a ".reg" extension, then right click -> Merge with an admin user and after that you'll be able to install the complete product from the "Updater" file you can download from Canon.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\EOS Utility]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\DPP]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX\Settings]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\ZoomBrowser EX\Install]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\PhotoStitch
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\EOS Capture]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\EOSViewerUtility]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Canon\ODSK]