AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 8, 2013
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 8, 2013
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, April 8, 2013
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InfoManager for Monday, April 8, 2013
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Safenetting : Phishing for April 8th
02 Smarter Journaling Debuts in Journals 2.0
03 Offline+Maps 1.5.1 released for iOS - Custom Offline Maps
04 View Tweets as Pictures - Free App for iPad
05 Free Storage, Sync & Backup for Mac
06 More on Apps for Autism
07 10 Facebook Tricks You Should Know
08 Preparing audiobooks for the road
09 Apps free for Autism Awareness Month
10 idev101: Fonts, Colors, & UI Sizes - Quick Reference for iOS Developers
11 Big Brother Camera Security, A Banned App, Returns To The App Store
12 Hulu Offers Some April Fool's Day Shows We Wish Were Real
13 'Godfather of Soul' Goes Digital
14 Norkoshop: How Pyongyang forked Adobe
15 Quotes: Thoughts for Tax time
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01 Safenetting : Phishing for April 8th
Phishing and cyber crime are are increasing as email begins to
slow down. Interactive social media offers fertile new hunting grounds
to steal. Beware and don't fall prey to them. This week's Safenetting
evils are :
* Coca Cola, Credit Suisse and Mercedez-Benz execs caught up in
phishing scam
* Advanced Persistent Threats get more advanced, persistent and threatening
* Coinbase phishing attacks are the 3rd Bitcoin security problem this week
* Friday is the worst day of the week for phishing attacks, apparently
* DHS warns of spear-phishing campaign against energy companies
* Cyber attacks hit businesses once every three minutes
* 10 Tips to Avoid Identity Theft this Tax Season
* UP accounts hit by phishing emails
and more . . .
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/safenetting-4/
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02 Smarter Journaling Debuts in Journals 2.0
Journals 2.0 is a clean and simple writing app from Mazzuna LLC.
Journals 2.0 takes everything that made Journals 1.1 a hit and adds
Dropbox syncing, iPad optimization, and a host of other features,
including the ability to create PDF documents from the text and images
that make up an entire journal.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/smarter-journaling/
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03 Offline+Maps 1.5.1 released for iOS - Custom Offline Maps
Maybe this is the answer to no Wi-Fi for travel maps ... maybe not.
GoToPo has updated Offline+Maps, what they call a "fun-to-use travel
app" for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices. Offline+Maps allows you to
save any part of the world map and navigate on it offline. With
Offline+Maps you can download an unlimited amount of highly detailed
maps, access them offline, and add pins to prepare future travels. Never
be lost again in your home city or in a foreign country.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/offlinemaps/
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04 View Tweets as Pictures - Free App for iPad
Austin, Texas - Donoho Design Group has rolled out Retweever
Visualization App 2.0 for iPad, their free Social Networking app that
finds the "buzz" in your Twitter stream and displays Tweets as
organized images, most important first.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/retweever/
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05 Free Storage, Sync & Backup for Mac
Thru April 11th, Mac users can get 10 Free Gigs of Dolly Drive
Storage, Sync & Backup for Mac, according to Dolly Drive maker
CirrusThinking, LLC. Dolly Drive subscriptions include cloud storage for
having a virtual hard drive, file syncing & online backup along with
integrated capabilities for local backup and a bootable clone for
immediate disaster recovery.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/free-storage-sync-backup-for-mac/
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06 More on Apps for Autism
Illinois - From geography apps to alphabet apps for early learners,
Spinlight Studio's education apps have found a loyal audience around the
world - including one they never expected. During National Autism
Acceptance Month, the company's app design and game play have made them
a popular choice among advocate moms like Shannon Des Roches Rosa,
senior editor of the Thinking Person's Guide to Autism.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/more-on-apps-for-autism/
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07 10 Facebook Tricks You Should Know
ShoutMeLoud has posted this article to help with
some Facebook features.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/10-facebook-tricks-you-should-know/
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08 Preparing audiobooks for the road
Macworld has this article about preparing your audiobooks
for listening while in the car from your iPhone, iPad or iPod.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/preparing-audiobooks-for-the-road/
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09 Apps free for Autism Awareness Month
April is the National Autism Awareness Month.
As away to honor that month, Kindergarten.com has made their educational
apps available for free. I have personally talked to a number of
parents and a few software developers. Apps on the iPhone/iPad have
made a big difference to the people stricken with Autism.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/apps-free-for-autism-awareness-month/
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10 idev101: Fonts, Colors, & UI Sizes - Quick Reference for iOS Developers
idev101: Fonts, Colors & UI Sizes' is a handy, quick reference app
for iOS developers. It's packed with useful tools and info, including a
font list, type tester, a color picker and converter, a list of screen
sizes, keyboard sizes, icon sizes, sample code, app design templates,
and more.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/idev101-2/
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11 Big Brother Camera Security, A Banned App, Returns To The App Store
Daniel Amitay announces the return of Big Brother Camera Security, a
Top 25 Overall iOS security app that amidst controversy in June of 2011,
was banned by Apple from the App Store. 21 months later, Big Brother
Camera Security is available yet again, and as the first ever app to be
unbanned by Apple. Big Brother allows iDevice owners to receive email
notifications whenever someone uses their device without permission.
Each notification includes the date & time, GPS location, and two
pictures.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/big-brother/
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12 Hulu Offers Some April Fool's Day Shows We Wish Were Real
April Fool's day came and went but online mavins celebrated with a
bunch of funny stuff. Get ready for some new shows only available on
Hulu! Okay, not really, but at least we can relive some of our favorite
(fake) shows from TV history. Hulu spoofs 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation,
The Simpsons, and others. Thanks to Kali Hilke, Don Mayer and Small
Dog's Kibbles & Bits
http://thefw.com/hulu-april-fools-day/
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13 'Godfather of Soul' Goes Digital
Marking the 45th anniversary of James Brown's historic Boston
concert following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,
multi-Grammy Award winning artist James Brown, best known for his
smoldering singing and revolutionary rhythmic style, makes his official
YouTube channel and online debut. Viewers and fans will be able to
immerse in a rich selection of rarely seen live concert footage as well
as interviews and clips addressing Brown's involvement in some of the
most seminal events of our time. The announcement was made by Shout!
Factory in collaboration with the James Brown Estate. (patience, it may
take a month to load.)
http://www.shoutfactory.com/jamesbrown
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14 Norkoshop: How Pyongyang forked Adobe
UG veteran and total Mac Geek, Terry (The Mac Doctor) Bowman
sent us this thoroughly enjoyable romp from the Register :
The recent news that North Korea had been caught red-handed indulging in
some not-so-light hovercraft cloning, led our beloved Reg commenters to
ponder just what software Pyongyang uses to big up its military
capabilities. One initial suggestion was that the communist state's
Illustrious Father and Leader, Kim Jong-Un, had forked the Gimp,
presumably with the assistance of an enormous dongle, and at great risk
of provoking a catastrophic innuendo melt-down.
* http://regmedia.co.uk/2013/04/03/norkoshop_erasure_big.jpg
* http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/05/norkoshop/
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15 Quotes: Thoughts for Tax time
Money will buy you a bed, but not a good night's sleep,
a house but not a home, a companion but not a friend.
-- Zig Ziglar
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion
. . . . I myself prefer to laugh, since there is
less cleaning up to do afterward.
--Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Rejoice you have a voice if you're concerned
about the destination, of this great nation
It's called the American Honky-Tonk Bar Association
-- Garth Brooks
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** THE INFO MANAGER
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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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