AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, December 17, 2012
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, December 17, 2012
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InfoManager for Monday, December 17, 2012
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 12th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet Tickets On Sale
02 MacOptimizer 1.2 adds new Optimization features and enhances Desktop Genie
03 Word Games for the Holidays
04 Organize Your Packing List This Holiday Season With Trip Packing List
05 Safenetting : Phishing Report 1212.10
06 Money for iPhone and iPad
07 Safenetting : Malware is relentless
08 Apple System Status page
09 Making Mailing Labels
10 Onde iTunes Converter
11 Christmas Giveaway of MacX Video Converter Pro
12 Ship Master Finds Cheapest/Closest Shipper: FedEx, UPS, USPS
13 Apple, Best Buy and Kohl's best Mobile Shopping Experiences
14 Quotes: Cezanne, Paine
15 ... and have a great week!
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01 12th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet - Tickets On Sale
Tickets Now On Sale For The 12th Annual San Francisco SuperMeet
The CPUG Network has announced the Twelfth Annual San Francisco
SuperMeet which will take place on Wednesday, January 30, 2013
at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco, CA.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/supermeet/
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02 MacOptimizer Optimization features enhances Desktop Genie
MacAppware, a division of 128bit Technologies, announced today
a new update to its speedy disk utility application for Mac OS X.
MacOptimizer is an incredibly fast and efficient disk utility to
quickly help you clean, repair and organize your Mac.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/macoptimizer/
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03 Word Games for the Holidays
GAMES InfoManager Okay, so the grownups need some entertainment
too, right. What better way to kill some free time than to
make your brain work just a little better!
Try these word games for a cerebral worktout
* Words With Cheats for Friends releases customer requested update
* link between a crossword puzzle, hangman and a word search game
* Graffiti Words Paints the App Store - Yellow???
* Keep mind in shape with Word Mend for the iPad
* Ordet: Everyone's Favorite Little Word Game
* Word Wall exercise your minds and brains
. . . and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/word_games/
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04 Organize Your Packing List This Holiday Season With Trip Packing List
Switchback Media thinks everyone could use a little help packing
for the trip. Now they've introduced Trip Packing List, which is
now free in the iTunes store. Trip Packing List allows users
to easily build and manage packing lists for
their upcoming trips.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/trip-packing/
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05 Safenetting : Phishing Report 1212.10
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report
The summer has not seen a decline in spam and phishing.
New attacks come every day, and here are just a
few from this week . . .
* Outlook.com gets extra anti-phishing and scam-deterrent support
* Connecticut Federal Jury Finds Romanian National Guilty
* Watch Out for Personalized Phishing Attempts
* Seven Arrested In PCeU Phishing Probe
* State sues Fla.-based texting spammer
* World map of phishing attacks
* Gone phishing?
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/phishing_1210/
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06 Money for iPhone and iPad
Jumsoft has relased an upgrade to iPhone and iPad versions of
its product, Money, a finance and budgeting app. Enhacements to
the updated apps include a possibility to store Money documents
on iCloud and access them from any of the three versions of Money.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/money-for-iphone-and-ipad/
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07 Safenetting : Malware is relentless
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report Security
alerts are going up everywhere, and the frequency of attacks promises
to increase. We publish the most news worthy regardless of platform
because no matter which platform you use, malware, virus, trojans,
botnets and the evils spawned on the computer world effects us all. . . .
* Latest Mac malware adds to 'troubling trend,' says security expert
* 18 million Android devices could get whacked with malware in 2013
* Secuity firm warns of malware stealing bank data sent by SMS
* Fake CitiBank credit card statement leads to malware
* New malware waits for a mouse click before executing
* New 'Dexter' malware strikes point-of-sale systems
* New Mac Malware charging user's mobile accounts
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/malware_1210/
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08 Apple System Status page
Apple has recently had a few examples of downtime. So
they have put up a new web page to show the status of
various parts of their system.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/apple-system-status-page/
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09 Making Mailing Labels
In the mid '90s, the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society
for several years had a standard meeting topic for November
of the making mailing labels for Christmas cards. The
presenter generally presented how to do it in Apple/Claris
Works. It was an always a well attended meeting.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/making-mailing-labels/
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10 Onde iTunes Converter
MADE IN AMERICA OndeSoft Corporation has announced their
new media converting software Onde iTunes Converter 1.01.5
for Mac OS X. Designed to unlock DRM protected media, Onde
iTunes Converter allows users to play and share their
purchased material across any and all of their media
devices.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/onde-itunes-converter/
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11 Christmas Giveaway of MacX Video Converter Pro
MacXDVD Software is having a giveaway for the holiday.
Everyone can get MacX Video Converter Pro free from now
until December 26th. A second round of the giveaway will
be starting December 27th with the offering of MacX iPhone
iPad Video Pack. That offer will last until Jan.7, 2013.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/christmas-giveaway-of-macx-video-converter-pro/
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12 Ship Master Finds Cheapest/Closest Shipper: FedEx, UPS, USPS
Indie developers Ron Tremper and Jeremy Weaver have done
you all a big favor with their innovative shipping app,
developed exclusively for iOS and all iDevices. Users simply
enter the origin and destination zip codes, the weight, and
package dimensions, and the app instantly generates a price
list of shipping options with the least expensive first.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/ship-master/
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13 Apple, Best Buy and Kohl's best Mobile Shopping Experiences
While Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2012 proved that
mobile commerce is growing steadily, new research reveals
that the top 20 brick-and-mortar retail brands still fall
short of consumers' expectations for fast, well-designed and
functional mobile apps and websites.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/12/shopping/
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14 Quotes: Cezanne, Paine
The awareness of our own strength makes us modest.
--Paul Cezanne
I love the man that can smile in trouble,
that can gather strenght from distress, and grow brave by reflection.
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct,
will pursue his principles unto death.
--Thomas Paine
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15 ... and have a great week!
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full or in pieces in your newsletter. Or add a link to
their web site.
Pau
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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
Forum days, then out onto the web.
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