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You are living a life in Internet and you are using a lots of web-application, services via Internet. But still there are much better services comming up and we tend to subscribe and start using it. But, are you ever read the Terms of Service ( shortly ToS ) of the service you are using it? Facebook has faced serious concerns over it’s change in ToS. Many of it’s users are not happy with it’s change in ToS. So the question is, why does a Infrequently read ToS bothers much? Whats in there in the ToS.

Ok. Lets begin with knowing about what is terms of service.

What is Terms of Service ( ToS )?

Terms of Service are the rules written by the Web-service providers ( eg: Google, Yahoo, Facebook ) to make the usage of the application in a reasonable way. Example, if you look at the point 8 in Google Docs ToS ,

8.3 Google reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, Google may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content. These tools include the SafeSearch preference settings (see http://www.google.com/help/customize.html#safe). In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.

Now this restricts users who are about to upload the illegal / sexual contents. Now this forces the users to use the service in a resonable way.

Why the companies using it?

Companies are using ToS service for the following reasons

1. To provide reasonable service to it’s customers.

Online services company runs web application for massive user base. The companies should provide reasonable amount of service to their users. They promise this in the ToS.

2. Proper utilization of service by users

Companies running those web application will be spending for Server, Bandwidth, and other computational and non-computational resources.So, the user should access those resources in a reasonable and optimal way.

Eg: Google will not allow you to upload files of size more than 500 KB or Presentations upto 10 MB.

So by enforcing this rule, the companies make sure that they are able to provide good service to everyone. Think, if the google allows to upload files of size 2 GB at a single shot, not all the users will have the same bandwith to upload the files, hence will convert into slow servers, unhappy customers, then loose business.

3. Protect themselves from legal issues

Companies will write up the ToS in such a way that they are most protected via the legal issues that might face from it’s customers. Recently Twitter has been sued due to it’s fault on it’s service ( but twitter has responded back  accordingly )

How to keep track of the Terms of service?

So, if you have ever seen a ToS page of any service it runs for miles and sure anyone wouldn’t have  enough patience to read/glance it even. A online service TOSBack tracks about 42 companies ToS and it’s changes. You can check what does a company tells in it’s ToS and what it has changed recently. Based on this you can use the service accordingly.

Screenshot of TOSBack displaying difference in YouTube’s ToS

Features in Mailplane:

Looking at the extra features in Mailplane, it allows you to send any file to this mail application using the “Right Click > Send to Mail Plane”

Mailplane apart from managing multiple Gmail ids, it has extra features like dropping any file in to the MailPlane,  which would just create a new Conversation in Gmail and attach the file instantly.

iPhoto integaration is also breeze with Mailplane via the built in plugin, which would instantly attach the photo to your mail.Go to iPhoto, Select the photos that you need to send then “Share > Email“, which would open the Mailplane and load all your selected photo into the Mailplane app.

Also you can send document to MailPlane by printing it to the Mailplane app.

The trojan is installed as a “Start up” service in in /System/Library/StartupItems/iWorkServices, a location reserved normally for Apple startup items.

Screenshot: A clean iWork installation will not have the 'iWorkServices' in the startup folder

Though the fix for this trojan has not been around, it’s true that the trojan turns the infected Macs into Zombies. But still  Mac is much better than PC in stopping the viruses. It’s true that Mac cant claim that it is not affected with virus, but still it holds a proud position of having lesser viruses compared to the PC’s large virus base.

So, Mac users though you download the pirated software, make sure that you run through the anti-virus softwares.That keeps your mac health and of course you too 

Problem Solution:

The solution for this problem is to add the line of code “Application.EnableCancelKey = xlDisabled”  in the first line of your macro.. This will fix the problem and you will be able to execute the macro successfully without getting the error message “Code execution has been interrupted”.

Thanks: This tip is given by one of my collegue Vijayaragavan..