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InfoManager for Monday, July 26th, 2010
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Apple Sentiment Weakens
02 16 things to do when setting up your Mac
03 LPI Linux Certification
04 Getting Started with Processing
05 Web Operations
06 iPhone Foto Brush
07 MacTech Conference for IT Pros and Developers
08 Free iWork Templates from iWork4School
09 Professional Journalists Conference
10 Catalog Your Home Contents with iPhone
11 Papers for iPad adds PDF Highlighting and Notetaking
12 Quotes: Reagon, Young
13 For July 26, have a great week!
In a stunning turn of events, sentiment for Apple has
dropped 15 points to the lowest level in the past 15 months.
Apple has consistently been a top 3 rated company on Piqqem's
top rated list and now doesn't appear in the top twenty-five.
In analyzing the sentiment line, Piqqem identified 2
primary issues. This according to California based Crowd
Technologies' sentiment results for Apple Computer
on Tuesday July 20, 2010.
This article first posted last April on MacYourself talks
about what you should do first on your new Mac.
It starts out: "A lot of new Mac users are so excited & overwhelmed
by their purchases that they don't even know where to start.
While Macs do come out of the box ready to go, a little configuration
here and a few applications there goes a long way."
Linux deployment continues to increase, and so does the demand
for qualified and certified Linux system administrators.
If you're seeking a job-based certification from the Linux
Professional Institute (LPI), this updated guide of "LPI Linux
Certification in a Nutshell" will help you prepare for the
technically challenging LPIC Level 1 Exams 101 and 102.
Learn computer programming the easy way with ProcessingLearn
computer programming the easy way with Processing, a simple language
that lets you use code to create drawings, animation,
and interactive graphics.
A web application involves many specialists, but it takes
people in web ops to ensure that everything works together
throughout an application's lifetime. It's the expertise you need
when your start-up gets an unexpected spike in web traffic, or
when a new feature causes your mature application to fail.
Foto Brush Pro 1.2 is an Apple featured programFoto Brush Pro
1.2 is an Apple featured program for the aspiring artist and those
who want to make their photos extra special.
For many years, I wanted to go to MacHack. Not because I
wanted to show off my abilities of programming, but because I
thought it was a way to actually learn something and get to
meet a lot of the developers I wanted to meet.
Apple has always had a great acceptance in schools.
AppleWorks on the Apple II and later Hypercard and AppleWorks
for the Mac. Of course, AppleWorks has now been supplanted by
iWork. So of course, iWork needs templates for schools.
The Society of Professional Journalists, the nation's most
broad-based journalism organization, is holding its 2010 SPJ
Convention & National Journalism Conference Oct. 3-5 in Las Vegas.
Missing Manual Nigel Green has announced the release and
immediate availability of Comprehensive Contents Insurance Catalog
(CCIC) Version 1.0 for iPhone and iPod touch. CCIC provides an
easy and accessible way to record the details of valued items
for insurance purposes, whether for protection against loss,
damage or theft. CCIC can be used to inventory items such as
jewellery, art work, antiques, software, computers, furniture,
gardening tools, equipment and anything else of value.
11 Papers for iPad adds PDF Highlighting and Notetaking
Missing Manual Mekentosj BV of Aalsmeer, The Netherlands has
announced a brand new version of Papers for iOS, a PDF library
app for anyone doing research. The new release adds iBooks-like
highlighting and note taking functionality for PDFs on the iPad,
as well as support for fast user switching and the high resolution
retina display of the iPhone4.
** THE INFO MANAGER
A weekly column from the mice of Lynn Wegley and Fred Showker.
Lynn is a UGN veteran (AOL User Groups Forum) and User Group Network.
He's been a supporter and volunteer on many, many UGNet and User
Group Academy projects. As a long time user group member, he's
been a volunteer from Honolulu to Boston and beyond.
Currently working primarily the with the Cowtown MUG of Ft. Worth
but also works with the Apple Corp of Dallas and is a lifetime
member of TUMS the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society).
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL
UG Forumdays, then out onto the web.
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