AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, November 12, 2012
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, November 12, 2012
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InfoManager for Monday, November 12, 2012
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Largest-ever US public sector cyber attack is warning
on the criminal value of customer credentials
02 Pixelmator Adds New Color Management
03 5 Apps To Get Back Into Productivity Mode
04 Tech Made Easy
05 AppyFridays will offer top Mac apps for less
06 Echo Pad, effects and looping app for iOS
07 Ship Master iPhone App Makes Holiday Shipping Care Free
08 What Apple Isn't Saying About Books For iPad - Free Download
09 MacOptimizer Keeps Your Mac Running Like New
10 Essay Writing Apps Increase Students' College and Job Prospects
11 How To Talk About Doomsday Predictions Based On Maya Prophecy
12 More Apps for Thanksgiving
13 Playing with Food Empowers Kids to Make Healthy Choices
14 Spell Catcher inventor / developer dies at 52
15 Quotes: Zig Ziglar, Norman MacEwen
16 ... and have a great week!
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01 Largest-ever US public sector cyber attack is warning
on the criminal value of customer credentials
FBI Cyber Security The recent, and largest, cyber attack
ever on a state government in the US, shows that attacks on
third-party credentials which can be used in identity theft
frauds are becoming more and more commonplace.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/byot/
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02 Pixelmator Adds New Color Management
The Pixelmator Team has released Pixelmator 2.1.3, a
significant update to its beautifully designed, easy-to-use
yet powerful image editing application, featuring an
entirely new and simplified Color Management tool and a Soft
Proofing feature. The new Color Management tool has been
redesigned to keep image colors perfectly consistent
throughout all devices.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/pixelmator-adds-new-color-management/
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03 5 Apps To Get Back Into Productivity Mode
Fast Company has this article on productivity apps.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/5-apps-to-get-back-into-productivity-mode/
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04 Tech Made Easy
This is a UK web site.
It is designed to help people learn about tech and how to do things.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/tech-made-easy/
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05 AppyFridays will offer top Mac apps for less
San Francisco, California -- AppyFridays is a new
project that aims to help Mac users discover great apps at
great prices and also help app developers climb the App
Store charts. Of course if their app is worth it. Starting
from the end of November AppyFridays will feature 3-4 Mac
App Store apps, available with a notable discounts. Users
and site--s team will handpick all apps.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/appyfridays/
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06 Echo Pad, effects and looping app for iOS
Orlando, Florida -- Holderness Media has announced the
release of Echo Pad 1.0 for iOS devices. Echo Pad is a
realtime audio effects processor featuring a unique delay
engine + sound on sound looper controlled by a multi-touch
XY interface. Echo Pad was born out of love for tape echoes,
sound on sound loopers and analog delay pedals. Echo Pad
excels at hands on warping delay tones and controlled
feedback, and is not afraid to get loud.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/echo-pad-effects-and-looping-app-for-ios/
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07 Ship Master iPhone App Makes Holiday Shipping Care Free
Waco, Texas -- Independent developers Ron Tremper and
Jeremy Weaver are giving you a hand this holiday season with
their new app, Ship Master, a revolutionary new iPhone app
that will reduce the cost and anxiety of shipping packages
during the holidays! Ship Master is the perfect shipping
utility app that allows users to get accurate price quotes
for shipping packages through UPS, FedEx and USPS and allows
the user to view the cheapest and quickest methods for all
their shipping needs!
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/shipping/
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08 What Apple Isn't Saying About Books For iPad -- Free Download
Dallas, Texas -- Schoolchildren, teachers, maintenance
workers and parents themselves increasingly are learning
from the type of multi-touch interactive books for iPad and
iPad mini that are being produced by a Dallas publisher, and
in some areas are exploring ways to generate content where
learners must demonstrate topic mastery before advancing to
the next.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/ibooks/
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09 MacOptimizer Keeps Your Mac Running Like New
San Francisco, California -- MacAppware, a division of
128bit Technologies, has launched a new 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/2012/11/macoptimizer-keeps-your-mac-running-like-new/
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10 Essay Writing Apps Increase Students' College and Job Prospects
Charlottesville, Virginia -- Colleges and employers are
increasing their testing of students' writing skills, and
Niles Technology apps prepare students in high school and
college to excel in writing. Whether asked to write a long
paper, a short essay, or to explain a complex passage, Essay
Workstation 2.1 provides the thinking and writing skills
required to handle any writing task in high school, college
and on the job. The apps work with any writing curriculum
and are perfect for iPad and iPhone mobile learning programs.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/essay-writing/
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11 How To Talk About Doomsday Predictions Based On Maya Prophecy
91 days remaining before the oft predicted 'end of the
world' based on the anticipated 'turning over' of the Maya
calendar, Southwestern College Professor Dr. Mark Van Stone
Wednesday offered suggestions and resources for parents who
have children and teens asking questions about the growing
tensions in the world based on what they have seen or heard
about the Maya.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/doomsday/
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12 More Apps for Thanksgiving
The holiday season is upon us, and the app store is bursting
with holiday wares! Last week just wasn't enough - it's
almost here, and you need more great apps for the
kids and guests this Thanksgiving
* Thanksgiving Coloring Book
* Word Spree: Thanksgiving
* Turkey Blast: Reloaded
* Thanksgiving Jokes
* Cookie Doodle
* Turkey Gobble
. . . and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/thanksgiving13/
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13 Playing with Food Empowers Kids to Make Healthy Choices
Seattle, Washington - Smash your food anywhere! The
highly anticipated iPhone and iPod touch adaptation of the
breakthrough educational game is now available in the Apple
App Store, making it accessible to more families than ever.
This fun and exciting mobile game encourages families to
smash real foods -- burgers, cola, French Fries and entire
meals -- to learn about nutrition, inspiring healthier food
choices while providing parents with personalized emails and
notifications filled with nutrition advice.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/11/healthy-choices/
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14 Spell Catcher inventor / developer dies at 52
How many of you remenber Casady & Greene's program Spell Catcher?
With the dawn of OSX and the demise of Casady & Greene, Evan Michael
Gross continued to refine and deploy the best spell program every
developed for the Mac. Evan, founder of Rainmaker Research Inc.
and author of Spell Catcher software, was an early adopter of
Mac (Apple) computer technology. One of the first 100 mac
owners, Evan was also one of the very first certified
Apple-Mac software developers in Canada.
Good-bye Evan, you will be remembered.
http://www.rainmakerinc.com/company/tribute.html
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15 Quotes: Zig Ziglar, Norman MacEwen
We make a living by what we get,
but we make a life by what we give.
-- Norman MacEwen
Of all the "attitudes" we can acquire,
surely the attitude of gratitude
is the most important and by far the most life-changing.
-- Zig Ziglar
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16 ... and have a great week!
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full or in pieces in your newsletter. Or add a link to
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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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