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New Facebook Privacy Issue – How to Disable Facial Recognition

From CNET:

Tagging friends in Facebook photos may be somewhat of a chore, but that doesn’t mean we asked to be opted in to Facebook’s new facial-recognition photo-tagging feature. As we reported yesterday, Facebook quietly rolled out facial-recognition software “that will automate photo tagging and suggest friends to tag in your photos based on what they look like.”

Here’s how it works: when you or a Facebook friend uploads a photo, Facebook uses facial-recognition software to match faces in that photo with previous photos on Facebook in which you’ve been tagged. Facebook groups similar photos together and suggests names for tagging purposes. Granted, Facebook isn’t tagging photos itself, but it is certainly making the process easier for your friends to tag photos of you.

As Facebook says here, “Now if you upload pictures from your cousin’s wedding, we’ll group together pictures of the bride and suggest her name. Instead of typing her name 64 times, all you’ll need to do is click ‘Save’ to tag all of your cousin’s pictures at once.” That’s great, unless one of those 64 photos are of you at the end of the evening, slumped in a chair with your tie in your drink.
The introduction of facial recognition on Facebook has many users rightfully uneasy. Worse, Facebook has enabled it by default. Here’s how to disable it:

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20070045-285/how-to-disable-facial-recognition-in-facebook/

Buffalo Funeral Home – Funny !!

OMG there is only one answer to this..."I sure as hell hope so"

I did it – I actually returned the iPad I bought…

I can’t believe that after a year of moaning and groaning about how much I wanted an iPad, and all the hours and hours of research I did about which model to buy, that I actually bought – and then – returned one.

The reason is simple – in the end it wasn’t that much more efficient to have it instead of my laptop with me this week while traveling for work. Not a lot of difference in size and being Gen1, not a lot of difference in weight. And viewing my online credit card bill – ouch. So back she went.

I’m looking forward to seeing the RIM PlayBook in a week or so – while nowhere near as cool as the iPad in my opinion (uninformed though it is), it stands to fill more of my needs for small and light than did the iPad.

So there you have it.

Now I have to find something else to blog about

Gotta be one of the funniest signs I’ve ever seen:

Seen in Cabo San Lucas Airport – about 5 years ago:

Return iPad, Buy PlayBook? Seriously?!

I’ve wanted an iPad for a long time – did a lot of work before purchasing, trying to figure out best model and all that and now that I have one (iPad1, 32GB WiFi) I’m actually thinking of returning it and buying a RIM PlayBook in 2 weeks!!! I can’t believe I just wrote that, but it’s true!

Here’s why:

-size matters – it turns out that even though the iPad is lighter than my MacBook, it’s still something to lug around and really, not that much smaller dimensions-wise. The PlayBook has a 7″ screen and that’s beginning to be pretty appealing.

-giving up the size won’t matter though because the PlayBook’s screen resolution is supposedly better – and I can believe that because I had one of those first MacSEs back in the mid-80s. Those screens were tiny but I never had any issue reading on them.

The iPad really is not the stand-alone piece of equipment that I was hoping I could turn it in to – I knew that it’s essentially an extension of my MacBook but the functionality is pretty limited. For example, I want to cull down my 10,000 photos and thought that while traveling for work, I could attack this project on the iPad, but it turns out that it’s really much easier to do it on my MacBook (unless someone can tell me differently?).

So I’m really torn – it’s only been a few days so I have another week to decide and I’ll be pretty embarrassed to go back to the store but…. the PlayBook seems pretty enticing at this point.

Hotspot

Just a quick follow-up to my post about the iPad purchase – yes, Hotspot does give me internet connectivity via my iPhone but I had trouble at first. I couldn’t get my iPad1 to “see” my iPhone. Here is what you need to know:

-both iPad and iPhone need to have latest system software installed – keep them up-to-date – for iPhone, Hotspot comes with OS4.3.1 and for iPad it’s 4.3 (see wikipedia for list of features: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_version_history)

-Hotspot does not need to be “activated” (with Rogers) if you have already activated tethering with them (which I had done)

-Hotspot essentially offers “tethering” by 3 means – wifi, bluetooth, USB

-make sure both iPad and iPhone are connected to each other – pairing, for bluetooth; or seeing the network for wifi (obviously, you can’t link iPhone and iPad with USB)

And seriously, it’s that easy.

Here’s some more info.

How to tell which version of OS you are running on your iPhone and iPad:
-Settings
–General
–About
–Version

How to turn on Hotspot:
-Settings
–General
–Network
–Personal Hotspot on/off

How to turn on Bluetooth:
-Settings
–General
–Bluetooth