AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 14, 2013
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, January 14, 2013
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InfoManager for Monday, January 14, 2012
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by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here:
01 Facebook Rolls a Bumpy Road to the Top (3)
02 Identity Theft 101 : Phishing with Bait Infographic
03 School to get free iPads for app idea
04 Mobile Essay Workstation Teaches Principles of Writing
05 Universal AweCal -- An Integrated Organizer for iOS
06 Best personal finance app -- Swippe Pocket 1.2
07 PhatPad 2.5 for iPad now with Animated Pen Palette
08 Apple TV Presentation Part II
09 Sprightly FreeCell
10 Dish Hopper Transfers
11 iCloud your email
12 TidBITS: iTunes 11 Changes/Alternatives
13 Hacker Hits on U.S. Power and Nuclear Targets Spiked in 2012
14 Facebook in the new year (2)
15 Adobe CS2 ... for you? From the Mac Doctor
16 Quotes : Carl Sagan
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01 Facebook Rolls a Bumpy Road to the Top
Yes, it's everyone's favorite social network, but now they can
count you while there are some other specialties beginning to appear -
but you can count on the Infomanager bringing you the most fun of it
all:
* Facebook Mobile User Counts Revealed: 192M Android, 147M iPhone, 48M
* Germany NOT Facebook friend unless privacy policies are changed
* Anthony Weiner's sext pal Lisa Weiss apologizes on Facebook
* King.com reigns over social gaming on Facebook
* Jail Time for Offensive Facebook Postings?
* Fred Wilson: "Facebook Copies Everything"
* Facebook data reveals your best friends
... and a lot more! This is actually out second report this week ...
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/facebook_1301-12/
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02 Identity Theft 101 : Phishing with Bait Infographic
UGNN reader James Jones from BlueFirePR has seen the Safenetting
infographics, and wrote in to say : "I have a great infographic that I
think you might enjoy - your readers would really get a kick out of
it, as the graphic provides some eye opening facts about the phishing
scene." WOW ... he sends along this cool infographic, from
www.lifelock.com
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/phishing_with_bait/
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03 School to get free iPads for app idea
Created by teachers for teachers... Number Lines is the first app
released as part of the demografix "iPads for Schools" program.
Teesdale Primary School, a school in Victoria Australia, submitted and
crafted the ideas, features and functions of the app to suit them and
the National Curriculum, while demografix developed and built the app
in association with TouchScreenCraft. A percentage of the sales go
back to the school as iPads for their classrooms.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/school_gets_free_ipads/
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04 Mobile Essay Workstation Teaches Organizational Principles of Writing
For students, the major problem with writing is the development of
good structure. It all begins with the organizational process of
writing, which is the most difficult to master. Essay Workstation 2.1
comes complete with step-by-step writing instructions for over forty
types of essays plus a unique built-in writing platform. Whether it is
a three-page or 10-page paper, Niles Technology apps make writing a
more structured, consistent process. In the App Store today for iPad,
iPhone and iPod!
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/mobile_essay/
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05 Universal AweCal - An Integrated Organizer for iOS
AweCal application for iOS (iPhone and iPad) is the most elegant
and easy to use organizer (Calendars, Tasks and Notes combined)
application available on the App Store. It works perfectly with the
native iOS Calendar, Google calendar, Google Tasks, Toodledo and
built-in Reminders.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/awecal-organizer/
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06 Best personal finance app - Swippe Pocket 1.2
Swippe Pocket has been updated to version 1.2, which is available
for all iOS devices. Swippe Pocket helps users to keep track of all
personal debts with a simple and clear user-interface. With the
application you can keep track of what payment is owed to you, and
what payment you owe to others.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/swippe-pocket/
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07 PhatPad 2.5 for iPad now with Animated Pen Palette
Here comes a new version of PhatPad for iPad, a note organizer
and collaboration app featuring PhatWare's advanced handwriting
recognition technology. The new version of PhatPad now includes
animated digital pen/color palette, designed to a improve user's
productivity by simplifying the selection of pen styles and colors.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/phatpad/
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08 Apple TV Presentation Part II
This is part two of a series about Apple TV that I started in
December. I'll be doing the presentation Tuesday and can't spend a
lot of time on it here today, but thought I would at least get part
two finished.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/apple-tv-presentation-part-ii/
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09 Sprightly FreeCell
FreeCell is a classic, entertaining solitaire favorite!
Users try their hand at of one of the most popular
solitaire games of all time.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/sprightly-freecell/
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10 Dish Hopper Transfers
Engadget has posted this article about Dish's Hopper Transfer.
The article begins by saying "Sure, there's Dish Anywhere for
realtime streaming of live TV and DVR content."
Hopper Transfers also from Dish allows you to unload DVR
content to the iPad so you can take it with you.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/dish-hopper-transfers/
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11 iCloud your email
This article at blog.xero.com is one of the best tutorials I've
seen on email in general and iCloud email specifically.
(The site in general appears to be aimed at small to medium sized
businesses, but we can all benefit from some of the material here.
Which can be understandable, since their service appears to be
accounting services.)
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/icloud-your-email/
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12 TidBITS: iTunes 11 Changes/Alternatives
Adam Engst has written this TidBITS article about what
items were removed from iTunes in iTunes 11 and what
some of the alternatives are.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/tidbits-itunes-11-changesalternatives/
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13 Hacker Hits on U.S. Power and Nuclear Targets Spiked in 2012
America's power, water, and nuclear systems are increasingly being
targeted by cybercriminals seeking to gain access to some of the
nation's most critical infrastructure. The number of attacks reported
to a U.S. Department of Homeland Security cybersecurity response team
grew by 52% in 2012, according to a recent report from the team. There
were 198 attacks brought to the agency's attention last year, several
of which resulted in successful break-ins.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/hacker-hits/
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14 Facebook in the new year
UGNN InfoManager news all about social media and Facebook Kicking the
year off right, with a lot of news from Facebook - now the biggest
online network in the world! And, you can count on the Infomanager
bringing you the most fun of it all:
* German state fights Facebook over alleged privacy violations
* Teen boasts of drunken driving on Facebook, arrested
* Killing your friends on Facebook is shockingly easy
* Facebook adds voice and chat to its Messenger apps
* Why Some Facebook Users Constantly Update Status
* The entire world is increasingly using Facebook
* Facebook balances monetizing, popularity
* Why you don't own your online life
... and a lot more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/01/1301-1_facebook/
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15 Adobe CS2 ... for you? From the Mac Doctor
We got two this week from "The Mac Doctor" ... he writes :
If you have an older Mac or Windows system and wish to do some
image editing, you'll be glad to hear Adobe's CS2 software is
now available for free. Here's the download page.
* http://ow.ly/gM5YT
Thank you KA4HJH, the Mac Doctor ... and this one just for fun ...
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comics/20120501.gif
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16 Quotes : Carl Sagan
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology,
in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
-- Carl Sagan
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17 ... 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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