AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, August 10th, 2015
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, August 10th, 2015
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, August 10th, 2015
- From: Fred Showker <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 07:12:44 -0400
InfoManager for Monday, August 10th, 2015
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
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What's Here:
01 Safenetting : Macintosh Malware vulnerability, cell malware, scam pop-ups and more
02 Why Your Mac Is More Vulnerable to Malware Than You Think
03 You'll never guess where this study found Facebook users updating their posts
04 Possibly the best app you've ever discovered ... keeps everything!
05 Now your PDF Color Conversions are easier and more accurate
06 Best Birthday Invitation and Greeting Cards Maker
07 Cocktail 8.5.1 (Yosemite Edition)
08 Quickly Share Photos with Groups of Users via Photo Clique
09 Quotes: Drabble; Churchill; Jackson and Landers
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01 Safenetting : Macintosh Malware vulnerability, cell malware, scam pop-ups and more
Digging deep into society we're discovering the malware programmers know a lot more about what they're doing that our experts ever thought. Now they're attacking games, cars, cellphones and even calling on the phone. They will do anything -- everything they can to get at your money and your identity. A growing number will do anything to bring down western civilization! It's getting bad!
* The Russian government may be protecting the creator of the world's most infamous malware
* Thousands Of Pirate Bay, Kickass Torrents Proxies Infect Browsers With Malware: Report
* Why Your Mac Is More Vulnerable to Malware Than You Think
* New malware turns your computer into a cellular antenna
* The Hip Trend of 2015 Is Designer Government Malware
* Tech support scam pop-ups
. . . and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/1508-10_malware_report/
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02 Why Your Mac Is More Vulnerable to Malware Than You Think
If you think your Mac is a lot more secure than a PC, you're not alone -- but you may not be as correct as you thought. Kim Zetter reports for Wired that even though most people think that a Mac's firmware is a lot more locked-down than a PC's, two researchers have found that several known vulnerabilities that affect top PC makers' firmware can also hit the firmware of Macs. And for the first time, they have designed a proof-of-concept worm that would enable a firmware attack to spread automatically from MacBook to MacBook, even if they aren't networked.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/mac_malware/
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03 You'll never guess where this study found Facebook users updating their posts
A survey of 2000 people who use Facebook regularly has found that a majority are worried that their use of Facebook is compulsive. The survey was undertaken by Stop Procrastinating, the website blocker and productivity research website, and found that 56% described their Facebook use as compulsive.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/compulsive_facebook_users/
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04 Possibly the best app you've ever discovered ... keeps everything!
Outline 3.5, a new version of smart digital notebook, available for Mac or iPad with support for iCloud Drive. Outline is aimed to ease the note-taking process and making it entertaining and convenient. It allows to take typed or handwritten notes, then annotate them, store, and organize together into structured notebooks.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/gorillized_outline/
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05 Now your PDF Color Conversions are easier and more accurate
PDF Checkpoint 1.7.9 is a maintenance update to its solution to batch PDF preflighting and conversion. Remarkably fast, PDF Checkpoint automatically preflights, exports as images, splits and optimizes multiple Adobe PDF files. PDF Checkpoint is an ideal program for users who need a fast, affordable and easy to use solution to check PDF files for errors and convert them to the desired format and color space.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/pdf_checkpoint/
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06 Best Birthday Invitation and Greeting Cards Maker
iAppsTechnology has announced the release of The Best Birthday Invitation and Greeting Cards 1.0, its amazing Birthday eCard App developed for iPhone and iPad devices. A special birthday begins with the perfect invitation and greeting. A picture paints a thousand words!
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/best-birthday-invitation-and-greeting-cards-maker/
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07 Cocktail 8.5.1 (Yosemite Edition)
Cocktail is a general purpose utility for OS X that lets you clean, repair and optimize your Mac. The application serves up a perfect mix of maintenance tools and tweaks, all accessible through a clean and easy to use interface. Cocktail's features are arranged into five categories that helps you manage various aspects of your computer. It also comes with an automatic Pilot mode that allows you to simply press a button and relax, knowing that Cocktail will take care of the rest.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/cocktail-8-5-1-yosemite-edition/
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08 Quickly Share Photos with Groups of Users via Photo Clique
Photo Clique allows users to set up groups at events or parties, and immediately share photos as they are taken, or to share previously taken snapshots directly from their Camera Roll. The app creates a peer-to-peer network, facilitating the sharing of photos via both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. The more users in the group, the larger the sharing network that is formed via the app.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/08/quickly-share-photos-with-groups-of-users-via-photo-clique/
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09 Quotes: Drabble; Churchill; Jackson and Landers
When nothing is sure, everything is possible.
- Margaret Drabble
A joke's a very serious thing
- Charles Churchill
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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.
Lynn is currently working to rebuilding the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society
(TUMS) and also is a member of the Apple Corps of Dallas.
An active participate on several MUG Facebook pages as well.
Fred has been user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days,
then out onto the web. Fred started and developed the User Group
Network as a parallele organization to the Mug News Service, then
continued through the founding of the Association of Apple Computer
Users and Groups, and continues today at UGNN.com
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