AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, October 11th, 2010
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, October 11th, 2010
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, October 11th, 2010
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InfoManager for Monday, October 11th, 2010
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Heads in the sand
02 Fall: From the Frontline
03 VPN for the rest of us
04 What the Font is WOFF?
05 Photography Expert Inside iPad
06 Image adjustments in PDF files
07 Text Recognition for Mac
08 Body Motion for iPhone
09 Finding iPhone Apps
10 Foodmatic 1.0
11 Free iPad Gradebook App
12 UGNN Mail Bag: Evil Tweets
13 UGNN Mail Bag: Phishing Updates
14 Quotes: Quotes: Huxley, Mother Teresa
15 For this week, have a great week!
This edition of the newsletter was mailed on 10/10/10
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01 Heads in the sand
Sometimes you run into situations online that just make
you say "hmmmmmmmmm." Some you cannot figure out. Some you
can do something about - others, you can't. Such is the case
with being blocked by 'the creative cow' web site.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/heads-in-the-sand/
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02 Fall: From the Frontline
Internet Safety and Digital Ethics Fall 2010: News briefs
for students, parents and professionals living and
learning in the digital world.
This issue includes:
* Facebook Begins Purging Pages Referring to Pedophile Group NAMBLA
* CommonSense.org links
* new Parent guide
* Text for Free
* Facebook Privacy Lockdown
* Facebook 'Places' has Privacy Advocates Freaking Out
* Better Behave-- the FBI May be Watching
* Apple Loses Big in DRM Ruling
* and a dozen others...
http://www.safenetting.com/2010/10/10/fall-from-the-frontline/
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03 VPN for the rest of us
Today, more and more employers and business owners
realize the benefits that working from home or from a remote
location can have for their company and employees. The key
challenge is often determining how to set things up in order
to do this reliably, securely, and in a way that ensures the
most seamless transition from office to home/remote location.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/vpn-for-the-rest-of-us/
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04 What the Font is WOFF?
Web designers have generally relied on a small number of
typefaces, such as Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman, when
creating text on a Web page. These fonts are open for
anyone's use, can be rendered by various browsers and
therefore considered 'Web-Safe.' However, a large number of
other typefaces available with desktop applications are not
available for the Web because we lacked an interoperable
format supported by different browsers as well as practical
Webfont licensing options. That's going to change with WOFF..
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/what-the-font-is-woff/
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05 Photography Expert Inside iPad
Aspyre Apps has rolled out PhotoCaddy - now available
for the iPad. PhotoCaddyHD is a handbook for photographers
of all skill levels, with content that is constantly
evolving thanks to an active user community.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/photography-expert-inside-ipad/
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06 Image adjustments in PDF files
Smile has released PDFpen 5.0, the latest version of its
popular and affordable PDF editing tool for Mac OS X. With
this major upgrade, PDFpen includes the ability to redact or
replace text, including OCR text.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/image-adjustments-in-pdf-files/
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07 Text Recognition for Mac
ExactCODE continues to improve OCRKit, and bring
streamlined and easy to use text recognition to the Mac.
OCRKit recognizes text from images and PDF documents and
transform them into searchable PDFs by using advanced
Optical Character Recognition technology.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/text-recognition-for-mac/
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08 Body Motion for iPhone
The developer of Body Motion, has released a unique
product for iPhone and iPod touch users who want to get fit
quickly and easily. It is called Fit Your Body. Body Motion
is the first motion detection App created, tracking a user's
steps throughout intense, interval workouts so users can
monitor their progress. Based on the Tabata protocol, the
application provides a means of burning fat in as little as
four minutes of exercise a day. Body Motion is useful for
beginners and professionals, alike.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/body-motion-for-iphone/
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09 Finding iPhone Apps
This article starts off with statement that I can't
argue with: "Let's face it: the App Store isn't the easiest
way to find the best iPhone or iPod touch apps."
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/finding-iphone-apps/
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10 Foodmatic 1.0
Point Software has introduced Foodmatic 1.0, an
innovative new cooking application for the iPhone designed
to help users eat better, tastier food.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/foodmatic-1-0/
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11 Free iPad Gradebook App
Now teachers around the world can use their iPads(TM) to
monitor student progress anytime, anywhere with the launch
of PowerTeacher(TM) Mobile, a free app from Pearson, the
global leader in education technology and services. The
company developed this first in a series of iPad apps for
PowerSchool(R), the most widely used and fastest growing
student information system, as part of its overall
commitment to leverage emerging technologies to personalize
learning for all students.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/10/free-ipad-gradebook-app/
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12 UGNN Mail Bag: Evil Tweets
FM from Greenwich CT wrote:
> Thank you to whom ever posted information regarding the
> Computer Forensics show info on the site.
> I see you are involved with Twitter and I have been on
> Twitter for 3 days. But have found it to be 90% spam.
> Not to say it can't be great, but so many people who
> I thought were in the IT Security relm have turned out
> to be nothing but mass marketers.
> Just my 2 cents!
Hmmmmm, you're right, FM -- in fact, most Twitter users
are marketers or worse. You may remember this:
http://goo.gl/PrsT
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13 UGNN Mail Bag: Phishing Updates
Interesting that many of the comments and contacts posted to the
UGNN site are about our cyber security or phishing updates. Here R.R.
writes to say
> I admit, I have not been on this webpage in a long time...
> however it was another joy to see It is such an important
> topic and ignored by so many, even professionals.
> I thank you for making people more aware of possible issues.
http://www.ugnn.com/2010/09/safenetting-update/
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14 Quotes: Quotes: Huxley, Mother Teresa
Every person who knows how to read has it in their power
to magnify themselves, to multiply the ways in which they exist,
to make life full, significant, and interesting.
--Aldous Huxley
If you think well of others,
you will also speak well of others and to others.
From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
If your heart is full of love,
you will speak of love.
-- Mother Teresa
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15 For October 11th, have a great week!
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** 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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