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Facebook, about two weeks ago, updated its terms of use.  The Force did not like that. Here is one excerpt:

Sure, you can choose not to use Facebook at all, but that doesn’t mean a thing. Someone can still take your photo, slap it on Facebook, and now neither you nor the author of the photo can stop Facebook from using the photo in whichever way they please

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[ http://mashable.com/2009/02/16/facebook-tos-privacy/ ]

Well, fear no more, masses.  Facebook this morning informed me (and presumably you, too) that “Because of this response, we have decided to return to our previous Terms of Use”.  

Go ahead.  Pat yourselves on the back.  You deserve it.

Green tips for every day life!

Green Profits

Being environmentally conscious (and generally, socially conscious) has become fashionable.  And as with all fashion, it has become expensive.  Somewhere between Carbon Credits and Green Roofs, we lost track of the basics.  When I was a wee lad in Elementary school, you didn’t have to go broke and smell of patchouli to save the world. On the contrary, it meant being frugal and being conscious of your actions.  On this first article in our “Green Business” category, I want to explore a few green tips that are not only socially conscious, they also increase your “Green visibility” and will not break the bank.  For now, I start with bringing it back to the basics: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. And you may even save  a few pennies in the process.

1. Ditch Styrofoam

I walk in a meeting, at some ungodly hour like 10 am.  Happily, the person at the desk is nice enough to offer a very welcome cup of coffee.  They come out with a styrofoam cup and packets of sugar and cream. Oh, and one of those plastic stirrer things.  And I’m thinking: Styrofoam? Really?!  Whether there’s any basis to my bias is yet to be determined, and there’s still some debate about the paper vs. styrofoam cup thing, but it is accepted in many circles that styrofoam is just plain bad, with health effects as well as environmental.  I don’t know why but styrofoam still persists. 

2. Ditch the paper and plastic, too

Now consider the alternative: I get a reusable mug with a spoon and a sugar and cream server if I wanted sugar/cream.  Now I think happy thoughts.  I think they care about the environment. I think they think of their work place as something more than a factory.  I think they care about their employees and probably have a rec. room. Chance are the coffee tastes better too.   I get kind of confused when I go to lunch, and they ask whether the food is “for here” or carry-out…only to serve it in the same disposable plastics when I’m eating in.

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Short and sweet.  I was browsing Google Help today to find the article on the differences between a Google account and Google Apps (a topic for another time), when I noticed this little tidbit:

For any product available through Google Accounts but not currently available in Google Apps (e.g., Blogger), you can use your Apps address without any issues. But in the future, when we add more products to Google Apps (hint! hint!)…

So…is Google inviting the rumor mill here or are they telling us that they’ll soon offer Blogger as a Google Apps product (as well as a Google Accounts product)?  If the latter, how will the Blogger product fit in with the existing Google Sites product for organizations? 

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In the “wall of shame” series, I got an email today that stated “Please fax in all documents. We can no longer except documents  by E-mail.”

Pause to reflect.

OK.  So, about 7 years ago when I closed on my house, my mortgage company could not send

documents by email.  And of course, they forgot to fed-ex the documents as well.  So we sat around for 6 hours through several attempts to fax an entire tome of contracts to the closing firm.  The first 12 attempts failed at page 40 or something.  After that they started sending it out in 30-page batches.

Here are are now, and people can’t receive documents over email?  What happened to technology? The environmental movement? Common sense?  And to top it off: No longer

?!  I mean, you are a ludite or live in a cave with a single fax line, I understand.  But to have seen the light, and then step backwards about 10 years?!

Whoever you are, get with the times!  While you’re at it, start accepting digital signature.  I can show you how…call me!

OS X

A few months ago I got another call from a friend, giddy as a schoolgirl, telling me they got a Mac.  I’m not sure what it is about these machines:  It’s not like switching from Honda to Volkswagen.  People who get their first Mac act like their life just changed: their first baby may have just been born but they’re asking me what to do to their Mac.  They’re teenagers again, who just bought their first car.  Freaks. (Or was I the same way back in the last ice age when I got my first mac?) No matter.  This is not a social studies course.  I get questions about “what to do first” on a new Mac, so I’ll address them here.

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But first a correction.  People seem to “switch” to mac these days.  I’m personally not keen on that word choice.  ”Switch” implies a fairly dramatic (if not major) change.  You switch a light off or on going from darkness to light or vice versa, for example.  I’m guessing the Apple marketing geniuses love this idea that you’re putting something behind you, switching

 to something new and exciting.  But I think it’s more of a shift. Like shifting from 2nd to 3rd: you’re still driving the same car on the same road, but you’re moving better now.  Apple goes to lengths to remind us that we can now run Windows on a Mac, so even when you’re switching, you don’t have to, really.  Parenthetically, I know only few people who run Windows on their Mac, and they have specific requirements such as server software that require Internet Explorer.  Even Windows devotees will tell you not to run IE but I’ll again leave this philosophical tangent for a later time, like after a few martinis at Old Ebbitt.

One last thing by way of introduction: this is not purely an entry-level “top ten” list on how to use the Mac.  There are plenty of these.  I’m assuming most of you have some, even minimal familiarity with OS X by now, have installed the software updates (your Mac will have told you to anyway), and are able to use Safari to get to this article.  If you don’t, follow along anyway…but if you are not yet comfortable with a one-button mouse, I suggest browsing Apples Mac 101.   

Now on to step 2.

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