The first of Apple launches this week
Looks like Apples latest .Mac offering dubbed ‘MobileMe’ will be making its debut this evening. The .Mac service is scheduled to go down for maintenance this evening from 6pm - 9pm PST. During this time, Apple is planning to release MobileMe onto the masses.
Because buying an iPhone is so complicated
Since getting an iPhone is so complicated, after all that’s why there were such long lines last year, ATT has produced a helpful video to get your ducks in a row for the imminent arrival on July 11th. I’m not sure who the intended audience of this video but it still has some redeeming entertainment value.
What to do with those old books?
July 1, 2008 by phoFuki
Filed under Tips and tricks
I’m definitely no poster boy for the green movement but I do drive less, think about what I’m buying at the grocery store and leave store without the complimentary shopping bag when I can. I recycle more than I ever have before and try to buy products that can be recycled and have minimal packaging. This leads me to the topic du’jour: What to do with all these old text books. I’ve been out of college for sometime and amassed quite a collection of books, I figured I would reference at some point (from some research, this seems to be a common idea). Although, I have looked at them a couple times over the past few years, there has certainly been no burning need to have them. Especially with Google at my fingertips. So I pulled them all a side and decided I was going to get rid of them. My dilemma was what to do with them since I didn’t just want to throw them in the garbage.
My first thought was to donate them to the library but after a little research and reality setting in, I realized that the books were really too old to be of use to that organization. I then thought maybe GoodWill but the same problem existed. "How about selling htem on Amazon?" (effectively, recycling them) but that too proved useless. I did read about many different organization out West that would send them to developing countries, which sounded great. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any economical way of getting them the books. Funny thing is in my area there just doesn’t seem to be anything one can do with these well aged volumes of knowledge, which seems strange as I am surrounded by universities.
At my wits end on figuring out what to do with them, I dropped them off with my paper recycling center. The funny thing is a few hours later I see this post on Twitter from Guy Kawasaki.
One click and in front of my eyes were 10 things I could have done with all these artifacts from my collegiate youth. Alas, it was too late for me but maybe not for you. What have you done with your old text books?