Oh My. If I ever meet the Bad Jennifer Ellis…

Remember the Bad Jennifer Ellis? Sure you do.  If you don’t, you can catch up here and here. I’ll wait. Ready? Well, I got another call today.  The person on the call, who is from the folks trying to recover/collect for a Ford Focus, insisted they had two social security numbers now. That only sort […]

What a dust up, can (and should) employers ask for a Facebook password?

First, under no circumstances should employers/potential employers ask for a Facebook password. I have absolutely no doubt that if an employer views an individual’s Facebook account it will learn things it shouldn’t know in regard to the hiring/firing process. And then, if the employer doesn’t hire the person, or seeks to terminate the person, the […]

Pinterest’s Terms of Service – An Update

There has been much debate since the Pinterest terms of service controversy broke. Some copyright specialists believe that the copyright issue is a red herring due to the transformative nature of the posts. Carolyn Elefant does a nice job of explaining this in a comment in which she disagrees with my initial post on the […]

Kindle Fire App Sideloading

I have been asked If I could explain in detail how to sideload apps to Amazon’s Kindle Fire. One of the limitations of the Kindle Fire is that you can only download apps from the Amazon App Store. The way around this is to sideload the applications. Sideload means to load applications through a process […]

Are Pinterest’s terms of use really that bad?

I have read a number of articles about Pinterest and its terms of use lately.  Someone actually sent me a message on Facebook asking if I knew about the terms and wondering whether it is wise to use Pinterest.  That question is what leads me to write this post. I won’t comment on the wisdom […]