AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, September 17, 2012
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, September 17, 2012
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, September 17, 2012
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- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 17:39:54 -0400
InfoManager for Monday, September 17, 2012
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 iPhone InfoManager: iPhone 5
02 Ninebuzz Guitar Jam Tracks Now Available On Mac OS X
03 ArtStudio for iPad now with guidelines, grid, 450 brushes
04 Microsoft s Lost Decade
05 PixSteward
06 iBetaTest for iOS
07 GraphicConverter 8.3
08 Ten Essential Apps for Mac
09 The road to iPhone 5
10 iBank for iPad 1.1 Delivers Over 60 Enhancements
11 How to Automate Your Home with Your iPhone or iPad
12 Manage your Hashtags on Instagram
13 The great Apple store heist
14 Quotes: Goethe, Nietzsche
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01 iPhone InfoManager: iPhone 5
UGNN InfoManager news all about Apple and Apple
computers iPhone 5 is a reality and everyone s beginning to
chime in on the new iteration of the world s leading cell
phone ::
* With The iPhone 5, The Style Is The Substance. What s Wrong With That?
* iPhone 5 vs iPhone 4: Did Apple Deliver A Worthy Upgrade Over Android
* iPhone 5 Is Here: What to Do With Your Old iPhone, Other Smartphones
* iPhone 5 A6 Has 1 GB RAM, 33% Faster Bandwidth than iPhone 4S
* Change in Apple iPhone 5 dock connector irritates consumers
* T-Mobile to offer nano-SIM cards for unlocked iPhone 5s
* Review: iPhone 5 blends beauty with versatility
* Apple iPhone 5 user reviewsand more
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/iphone5/
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02 Ninebuzz Guitar Jam Tracks Now Available On Mac OS X
MADE IN AMERICA - Ninebuzz Software, creator of popular
iOS music apps Guitar Jam Tracks and Drum Beats+, has
launched a hot new music app, Guitar Jam Tracks Scale
Trainer & Practice Buddy on Mac OS X.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/guitar-jam/
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03 ArtStudio for iPad now with guidelines, grid, 450 brushes
Lodz, Poland - ArtStudio for iPad has gotten an update
this is a versatile drawing/painting/photo editing app
specifically designed for the iPad. ArtStudio is the most
comprehensive, sketching, painting and photo editing tool in
the App Store. Completely re-designed from the ground up the
new ArtStudio features a beautiful new user interface and a
powerful new graphics engine to make creating works of art
faster, easier, and more fun!
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/artstudio/
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04 Microsoft s Lost Decade
I think everyone realizes that Microsoft is not the
leader that they were just a decade ago. But what happened.
This Vanity Fair article tries to tell us what happened.
Some of issues seem to come directly from CEO Steve Balmer s
methods.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/microsoft/
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05 PixSteward
Murfreesboro, Tennessee Pubblog has announced the
release of PixSteward, the essential Flickr backup and
database for Macintosh. PixSteward lets users download their
Flickr photostreams to their Mac, along with any titles,
tags, descriptions, geographic info and EXIF data they have
entered online. With PixSteward s powerful relational
database, users can find, sort, and export single images or
multi-picture sets from their Flickr archive even when
they aren t connected to the Internet.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/pixsteward/
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06 iBetaTest for iOS
Lake Dallas, Texas GeekSuit has announced the official
MADE IN AMERICA launch of iBetaTest, their new hassle-free
App Testing Service for all iOS developers. Designed to
provide every iOS developer worldwide with a convenient and
inexpensive beta testing solution, iBetaTest allows a
developer to enlist any number of iDevice users from a large
pool of vetted beta testers. All testers are enthusiastic,
iOS end-users, who provide invaluable feedback on all
aspects of an app in exchange for Promo Codes or iTunes Gift
Cards.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/ibetatest-for-ios/
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07 GraphicConverter 8.3
German Macintosh developer and publisher, Lemke Software
GmbH has announced GraphicConverter 8.3, an important update
to its popular image utility for Mac OS X. GraphicConverter
8 has been completely rewritten and now supports 64-bit and
32-bit Intel-based Apple computers.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/graphicconverter-8-3/
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08 Ten Essential Apps for Mac
MacTrast has this article listing 10 apps that
they consider essential for OS X.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/ten-essential-apps-for-mac/
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09 The road to iPhone 5
Special thanks to UberFlip for sending in their latest
infographic. Uberflip s great infographic comes on the heels
of Apple announcing and releasing details of the new iPhone
5. It takes a look at how the iPhone has grown exponentially
in many ways since its inception just five years ago in 2007.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/iphone-5/
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10 iBank for iPad 1.1 Delivers Over 60 Enhancements
MADE IN AMERICA - The new iBank for iPad 1.1, is a major
update featuring over 60 new features, fixes, enhancements
and refinements. Coming just two months after iBank for iPad
s debut, the new release represents a significant step
forward for the app with across-the-board improvements. The
update is available now on the App Store.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/ibank/
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11 How to Automate Your Home with Your iPhone or iPad
Apple iPad to automate your home In this article, Jason
R. Rich takes a look at a handful of optional products that
can be used with your Apple iPhone or iPad in order to
automate and control appliances, lights, the thermostat, and
other devices within your home from anywhere.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/ipad_auto/
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12 Manage your Hashtags on Instagram
Dresden, Germany buildpath.de introduces Instatag 1.0,
a new app which is a brilliant way to improve the user
experience of Instagram. The app makes Instagram users
having more followers and likes by organizing their
hashtags. The user can create sets of hashtags, which are
reusable for tagging Instagram photos. The biggest benefit
is the saving of time time, which users often invest to
think about suitable hashtags to tag their photos.
http://www.ugnn.com/2012/09/instatag/
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13 The great Apple store heist
Smug member Terry "The Mac Doctor" Bowman sent in this video
commenting :
"Great video: I guess they grabbed enough stuff to pay to fix the car."
Thieves crashed a car into an Apple retail store, swept up
a bunch of iPhones and iPads and then had trouble getting
the car out of the store, according to security tapes
released by police
http://ow.ly/dKyai
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14 Quotes: Goethe, Nietzsche
"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be,
and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Better know nothing than half-know many things."
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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15 ... and 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
Forum days, then out onto the web.
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