AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, July 22nd, 2016
AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, July 22nd, 2016
- Subject: AUGD: InfoManager for Monday, July 22nd, 2016
- From: Fred Showker <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2016 22:16:30 -0400
InfoManager for Monday, July 22nd, 2016
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with coeditor Fred Showker
What's Here
1 MUG Websites August 22, 2016
2 Online Opioids: Report Concerning Ease of Access
3 Bel Math Apps releases Math Integers for iPad
- Popular Educational App
4 Powerful Children's App Review Database (CTREX) Gets Upgrade
5 Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition
6 The solution to multi-device families!
7 Google Provides Info on How to Vote in U.S.A.
8 TextSoap 8.1 Update
9 Quotes: Drabble; Churchill; Jackson and Landers
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1608-221 MUG Websites August 22, 2016
Continuing my investigation of MUG Websites pages. Returning to Arkansas then on to Missouri:
* VMUG - Village Macintosh Users Group of Hot Springs Village, AR - http://www.villagemug.com
* AppleJAC - Jefferson City MO MUG - http://applejac.typepad.com
* GAMUG - Gateway Area Macintosh Users Group - http://www.gamug.org
http://www.ugnn.com/2016/08/mug-websites-august-22-2016/
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1608-222 Online Opioids: Report Concerning Ease of Access
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and cyber world report That is the title for a difinitive piece of research that shows in no uncertain terms how your most trusted online entities are involved with cybercrime - making it so easy to obtain narcotics online. No, there's little consolation to learn that what we've been right since the the turn of the century. We're just glad people have started listening. If you're okay with organized crime, and online cybercrime cartels selling illegal drugs to anyone online, then you don't need to read any further.
http://www.ugnn.com/2016/08/illegal_drugs_online/
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1608-223 Bel Math Apps releases Math Integers for iPad - Popular Educational App
Bel Math Apps releases Math Integers for iPad - Popular Educational App The educational independent company, Bel Math Apps today is proud to announce the release and immediate availability of Math Integers 3.1, an important update to their popular educational iPad application. This new update of Math Integers is an essential addition to the company's set of educational iPhone and iPad apps.
http://www.ugnn.com/2016/08/math_integers/
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1608-224 Powerful Children's App Review Database (CTREX) Gets Upgrade
Children's Technology Review has released CTREX 3.0, the third of four planned versions of CTREX (Children's Technology Review Exchange). Designed to help teachers, parents and librarians choose interactive media products for children aged birth-to 15-years, CTREX is currently the largest, most comprehensive online database of educational reviews of children's interactive media (apps, toys, video games and web sites).
http://www.ugnn.com/2016/08/childrenstech/
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1608-225 Hackers Trick Facial-Recognition
Wired LogoHackers Trick Facial-Recognition Logins With Photos From Facebook (What Else?) Researchers have demonstrated a particularly disturbing new method of stealing a face: one that's based on 3-D rendering and some light Internet stalking. University of North Carolina specialists present a system that uses digital 3-D Facial models using publicly available photos. This method successfully spoofed 4 of 5 systems tried.
http://bit.ly/2bs4gmC
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1608-226 The solution to multi-device families!
You've probably seen this scenario play out.
http://bit.ly/2b9rZqJ
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1608-227 Google Provides Info on How to Vote in U.S.A.
Google's Inside Search blog in an article titled: "Your vote counts" is presenting ways to help you Register to Vote and then How to Vote in November.
The blog article is here:
* https://search.googleblog.com/2016/08/your-vote-counts.html
Register to Vote article is here:
* https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/a-voice-for-everyone-in-2016.html
* How to Vote in November here:
https://www.google.com/search?q=how+to+vote#eob=va/2/9/m.05mph
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1608-228 TextSoap 8.1 Update
Unmarked Software has announced the release and availability of TextSoap 8.1, a significant update to its macOS text processing tool, bringing user interface improvements, and adding significant new features based on customer feedback.
http://www.ugnn.com/2016/08/textsoap-8-1-update/
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1608-229 Quotes: Drabble; Churchill; Jackson and Landers
When nothing is sure, everything is possible."
- Margaret Drabble
"A joke's a very serious thing."
- Charles Churchill
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press,
is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
- Robert Jackson
"Television has proved that people will look
at anything rather than each other."
- Ann Landers
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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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