AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, November 9th, 2015
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, November 9th, 2015
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, November 9th, 2015
- From: Fred Showker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 22:19:00 -0500
InfoManager for Monday, November 9th, 2015
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
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What's Here:
01 Is ad-blocking good or bad! Ad-blocking helps sites suck less
02 Safenetting : China, DoD, cyber risks, lethal cyber warfare and more!
03 User Groups on Facebook November 7
04 The essential geo mapping outdoor nav that doesn't have to be connected!
05 iTuneseeper 4 Now Identifies Apple Music Tracks in iTunes
06 Use 'Hey Siri' Like Phrase On Mac OS X
07 Beamer 3.0
08 Star Walk Kids Comes to Apple TV
09 TSpeaker -- iOS Text-to-Speech App
10 Douglas Adams, Kipling and Peck
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01 InfoManager: is ad-blocking good or bad! Ad-blocking helps sites suck less
Ad blockers keep you secure Congratulations to YOU! Good news for you! The web-surfing public has discovered they can get rid of those rude, insidious, intrusive online ads and have effectively saved hundreds of thousands of hours and avoided some of the worst evils on the web! Bad news for money monger web sites: an estimated billion in revenue lost to ad blockers. But hey, we're always here to help User Group members have a safer, more beneficial, more plearurable experience with technology. From our early days setting up Apple eWorld and AOL groups fighting spammers and flamers to keeping you informed today, that's what InfoManager is all about
** The industry bites itself, bites back, screws users. Where will it end
** The digital media industry needs to react to ad blockers ... or else
** A prominent ad-blocker-blocker served malware to Economist readers
** Is Alphabet Inc Worried Ad Blocking Will Cut Into Revenue?
** Ad-Blocking Has Online Ad Industry On The Run
** How the IAB plans to fight ad blocking
. . . and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/ad_blockers-2/
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02 Safenetting : China to Washington, DoD, cyber risks, lethal cyber warfare and more!
A reader comments "I thought this was a respectible site?" Folks, even the best sites are now beseiged with hidden evils ... even your favorites! (Well, except for UGNN.com) You can't help it, and with the money-hungry criminal world, the online target represents the easiest to attack. Yes, we're talking billions, and maybe your own personal safety! So here are just a few of the headlines:
** Protecting the future: working together to combat tomorrow's cyber-security risks
** Lethal Cyber-Warfare: Pentagon Secretly Develops Cyber Weapons Able to Kill
** Cybersecurity: It's About Maximizing Trusted Routines, Resources
** DoD gives how-to guide for decreasing cyber risk in programs
** It's Time for Campaigns to Get Serious About Cybersecurity
** House Democrats to talk cybersecurity in China
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/safenetting_1511-08/
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03 User Groups on Facebook November 7
Here is some more great content items user group members on Facebook! If you're not already with us, please feel free to jump in . . .
** New Apple TV 4 is also a nice gaming console!!
** Retroactive disaster: Not even math can save the Apple Watch
** Lesa Snider Presents Photos at the Long Island MUG
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/user-groups-on-facebook-november-7-2015/
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04 The essential geo mapping outdoor nav that doesn't have to be connected!
Hunter Research and Technology has now updated its flagship augmented reality navigation app. Theodolite is a multi-function viewfinder for iPhone and iPad that combines a compass, two-axis inclinometer, rangefinder, GPS, map, nav calculator, tracker, and geo-tag photo/movie camera into one indispensable app. Uses are endless, and the app is great for hiking, boating, hunting, golf, outdoor sports, sightseeing, navigation, and finding your way around. With professional grade features, Theodolite is used extensively by surveyors, geologists, architects, engineers, competitive sportsmen, first responders, military personnel, and search and rescue workers around the world.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/theodolite-2/
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05 iTuneseeper 4 Now Identifies Apple Music Tracks in iTunes
Tune Sweeper 4 Now Identifies Apple Music Tracks in iTunes Wide Angle Software Ltd, a company known for creation of the popular iTunes clean-up software, Tune Sweeper 4, announces an outstanding new software feature. Tune Sweeper 4 now identifies tracks from Apple Music, making it easy to see which songs will vanish from iTunes if users cancel their Apple Music subscription.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/tune_sweeper-2/
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06 Use 'Hey Siri' Like Phrase On Mac OS X
OS X 10.11 El Capitan contains a hidden little feature that allows a Mac to listen for a word or phrase to trigger text dictation and some voice commands, much like 'Hey Siri' on iOS devices or Apple Watch for invoking Siri voice assistant.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/use-hey-siri-like-phrase-on-mac-os-x/
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07 Beamer 3.0
Beamer 3.0 allows users to stream any video file from a Mac to any Apple TV or Chromecast or Google Cast-supported high definition television. The app also includes subtitle support, and allows users to fast-forward, reverse, or completely skip to the next movie using the Apple TV Remote. (This is not an American product)
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/beamer-3-0/
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08 Star Walk Kids Comes to Apple TV
Vito Technology has launched Star Walk Kids specifically for Apple TV running tvOS, Apple's all-new operating system, based on Apple's iOS. Star Walk Kids is now available to users directly through the new Apple TV App Store.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/star-walk-kids-comes-to-apple-tv/
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09 TSpeaker -- iOS Text-to-Speech App
Duo-Pisces has announced the release of Speaker 1.0 for iOS devices. Speaker is a text-to-speech app which can speak out loud any text in all the languages that iOS devices support. The text length can be either a short sentence or a lengthy story.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/11/tspeaker-ios-text-to-speech-app/
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10 Douglas Adams, Kipling
"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife.
Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and
merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
- Douglas Adams
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
- Rudyard Kipling
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11 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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