AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, June 8th, 2015
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, June 8th, 2015
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, June 8th, 2015
- From: Fred Showker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 07 Jun 2015 20:55:47 -0400
InfoManager for Monday, June 8th, 2015
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
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What's Here:
01 User Groups on Facebook - First week of June, 2015
02 ICANN's relentless grab for the Internet ... just remember: you were warned!
03 First-Ever App for Fighting Traffic Tickets
04 Bxtel Releases Hearing Aid App for iPhone
05 Named the Best App for Parents at CES 2015, Yuggler is Going Free
06 TextExpander 5 Suggests New Snippets; Syncs With Any Service
07 Pinpoint
08 Marvelous Mac Apps
09 Emulsion
10 FYI : Products and product announcements for User Groups
11 Quotes: March, Fuller
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01 User Groups on Facebook - First week of June, 2015
Here we are into June - as most people's online computing is slacking off due to the spring and summer arriving, Facebook seems just as alive as ever! Busy, busy, and if you can weave your way through all the political crap, there are actually some good things in the user group community . . . here goes :
* LIMac : How to Block Websites on Safari for iPhone and iPad
* LMUG: Does the more memory more speed adage still stand?
* QMac: Which portable hard drives are worth buying?
* Apple Corps of Dallas: iPhone refurbished?
* How to Crash an iPhone with a Message
* NCMUG : Hmm. I smell a lawsuit
* NCMUG : The TExts of Death
* Thunderbolt screens . . . and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/facebook_ugs_1506-05/
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02 ICANN's relentless grab for the Internet
... just remember: you were warned!
Attempting to save the internet by alerting everyone of ICANN's grave future is like herding cats. Every expert and his brother out there thinks this is the best thing since sliced bread just because the Obama administration says so. Nobody remembers all the evils awaiting the opportunity of getting their hands on the internet. The same thing happened when the Clinton administration gave away the domain naming system to international 'shareholders' - opening the floodgates to all the phishing, cybercrime and fraud now brought to us by ICANN's rogue registrars.
Where will it end? Nobody really knows because those Clinton 'shareholders' are not telling why their nonprofit ICANN made over 60 million of profits since January - and what's worse, nobody's asking and nobody cares. Anyone fighting the total loss of the internet in Congress is being ciminalized by the media.
So just remember, you were warned.
* U.S. abandoning oversight of Internet? What's really going to change?
* CoE calls on ICANN to strengthen protections for privacy, expression
* U.S. plan to cede Internet domain control on track: ICANN head
* Hands tied, ICANN rakes in 60-million selling dot-names?
* Internet .porn and .adult domains open to buyers
* A Critical Moment For The Future Of The Internet
* Why Internet Freedom Is at Stake
* Fred Krueger: "Why I Hate ICANN"
. . . . and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/icann_what_is_next/
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03 First-Ever App for Fighting Traffic Tickets
First-Ever App for Fighting Traffic Tickets Debuts Today GetDismissed, the first-ever App that enables California drivers to effortlessly fight traffic tickets, has debuted today. The free GetDismissed App is the first and only mobile application that helps drivers fight a traffic ticket by automatically preparing all of the documents necessary to submit a Trial by Written Declaration to the court.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/traffic_tickets_app/
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04 Bxtel Releases Hearing Aid App for iPhone
I know some of you guys are getting on up there -- and may be finding that you are hard of hearing! Well, Hearing Aid App for iPhone Enhanced Ears is a new app that enables an Apple iPhone to function like a hearing aid. More than 36 million Americans incur hearing loss, which can significantly impact quality of life. However, many resist seeking help or wearing hearing aids because of significant cost, potential discomfort and embarrassment.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/iphone_hearing-aid/
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05 Named the Best App for Parents at CES 2015, Yuggler is Going Free
There are tons of apps for life before we have kids: We date on Match, have regrettable hookups on Tinder and find the best brunch places to cure our hangovers on Yelp. Then we have kids. And then what? If you aren't looking to offload your kids with Sittercity, what do you do? What if you just want to find something awesome to do with your whole family? That's where Yuggler comes in! The news is, Yuggler, theaward winning App for defeating family boredom in seconds will be free now and forever.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/yuggler/
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06 TextExpander 5 Suggests New Snippets; Syncs With Any Service
TextExpander 5, is a major upgrade to the popular Mac typing shortcut tool. TextExpander 5 helps you type faster by making suggestions of frequently typed phrases to abbreviate and save time. It also helps to remind you of forgotten snippets as you type.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/textexpander-5/
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07 Pinpoint
Lickability has announced the release and immediate availability of Pinpoint 2.0, the best iOS app to mark up your screenshots, now available on the App Store. Pinpoint offers a fun and easy way to see your entire screenshot collection, mark them up, and share the annotated images with friends.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/pinpoint/
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08 Marvelous Mac Apps
This article on ProductHunt.com lists some apps that we have mentioned in the past, but also several new ones.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/marvelous-mac-apps/
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09 Emulsion
The Escapers has announced the release of Emulsion, a brand new photo library app for Mac OS X. Powerful, fast and flexible, Emulsion helps anyone manage their photos, apply filters, fix dust spots, adjust metadata and so much more. You can apply stunning filters, subtle adjustments, and create multiple versions of your important images.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/06/emulsion/
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10 FYI : Products and product announcements for User Groups
Just for your information, in the past ten days, there were 99 announcements sent to the news desk at UGNN. Of those, only 42 were from U.S. developers.
At the time of the last presidential election, UGN began omitting foreign developers from our coverage due to the huge backlash from user groups. At that time, supporting foreign products and outsourcing jobs was a major ralley point from user group followers on LinkedIN, Facebook and other social networks. Today, some companies like Masters & Savant (based in Johannesburg, South Africa), Mooneye Games Ltd. (based in UK and Chennai, India) and Odessa (based in Odessa, Ukraine), continue to pose as U.S. companies by claiming Cupertino, CA or another U.S. city as their origin. Since the majority of app development is now coming from abroad, UGNN will begin readmitting worthy products into our coverage.
As the user group community continues to shrink, we need your help in continuing the Infomanager. Please visit and ask if you should be a supporter of your UGNN and user group community.
http://www.ugnn.com/support/
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11 Quotes: March, Fuller, Jung
"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things
we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind
-- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
- Peyton Conway March
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty.
I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished,
if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
- Buckminster Fuller
"Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart.
Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens."
- Carl Jung
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12 And that's it .... 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.
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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