by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 User Groups on Facebook Week ending August 31st 2014
02 Yacha – The viral messenger creates havoc in LA and Dubai
03 PaintCode 2.1 adds support for Swift programming language
04 LinkedIn thinks 360,000 people, including me, are stupid
05 QuickerTek Brings Fast 802.11AC Wireless to Apple MacBook
06 Join us for another hit episode of “Stupid App Tricks”
07 Six Apps to Keep Your Mac in Tip Top Shape
08 WritePad Pro 1.4 with Improved Note Taking
09 Get the School year going right – educational iOS games
10 TypeBook Creator for Mac
11 Twenty Nine Incredibly Useful Web sites
12 Quotes: Liberty
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01 User Groups on Facebook Week ending August 31st 2014
This week’s subjects on UG’s Facebook pages are listed below. If you know of any user groups that aren’t mentioned, please let us know. This week we saw:
[_] 30th Anniversary Party for North Coast MUG
[_] How to Secure Your Mac
[_] Apple Keynote Special London MUG event
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/user-groups-on-facebook-week-ending-august-31st-2014/
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02 Yacha – The viral messenger creates havoc in LA and Dubai
There is a new slick and powerful messaging platform called Yacha that has attracted strong growth in LA and Dubai in its first few days since launch. The free, feature-rich application creates truly multimedia messages from audio, text, drawings, photos and video, in any combination, which can be sent as a single message.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/yacha/
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03 PaintCode 2.1 adds support for Swift programming language
PixelCut has released PaintCode 2.1, adding support for the new Swift programming language to its popular developer tool. PaintCode is a unique vector drawing app that generates Objective-C or Swift code in real time, acting as a bridge between developers and graphic designers.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/paintcode/
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04 LinkedIn thinks 360,000 people, including me, are stupid.
From time to time, I actually read some of the crap the social networking sites keep spewing at me. Today LinkedIn sent me an e-mail with the big reversed-out head that reads: “Must Reads for Fred” – Wow! They’ve noticed me! But what they actually sent just makes you laugh! Enjoy 60-Seconds #315:
http://www.graphic-design.com/315_stupid_linkedin_email
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05 QuickerTek Brings Fast 802.11AC Wireless to Apple MacBook
802.11ac wireless is fast – as much as twice the speed of the previous 802.11n wireless of the built-in MacBook wireless card. This high-speed wireless provides streaming video, video conferencing with no hiccups, fast media file downloads and nearly instant Web browsing.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/fast_wireless/
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06 Join us for another hit episode of “Stupid App Tricks”
Man, it’s been a while, but with this week’s slew of really stupid apps, we couldn’t resist bringing back the InfoManager’s famous “Stupid Apps Tricks”. Follow along with all the other UGNN InfoManager readers as we puzzle over what the developers of these new iPad,
iPhone, and Android apps were thinking! Have fun…
[_] Floaty Hamster Zen and Art of playing stupid float down the river apps
[_] Are you dressed? Only your Virtual Closet App knows for sure
[_] Everybody needs the Biggest Carp App on their phone!
[_] First person shooter Goblin Attack :::yawn:::
[_] Destruction at the reach of your fingers
[_] Bowling in Paradise will be a huge hit…
…and more with VIDEO!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/1409_stupid_apps/
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07 Six Apps to Keep Your Mac in Tip Top Shape
FStoppers.com has this article listing six apps that will help you keep your Mac in good shape.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/6-apps-to-keep-your-mac-in-tip-top-shape/
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08 WritePad Pro 1.4 with Improved Note Taking
PhatWare Corporation has announced the availability of WritePad Pro 1.4, the advanced word processing, note-taking, and handwriting recognition app for iPhone and iPad.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/writepad-pro-1-4-with-improved-note-taking/
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09 Get the School year going right with fun educational games for iPad and iPhone
Once again, we’ve entered the school year, and kids all over are trucking back to school! Home time and quality time with parents can enhance and extend the learning experience with apps for your iOS device. Follow along with all the other UGNN InfoManager readers as we investigate just six of the hot new iPad, iPhone, and Android apps! Have fun!!
[_] Reading Comprehension Skills & Practice for Struggling Readers
[_] Four Games That Teach Rhyming Partners in Rhyme 1.4 for iOS
[_] Children’s Music Shines In New Kids App: Preschool Musical
[_] News-2-You iPad app now offers 4 reading levels
[_] Bamba Airport allows kids to run an airport
[_] Wonster Words Spelling with Phonics App
…and more with VIDEO!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/1409_ipad_education/
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10 TypeBook Creator for Mac
TypeBook Creator has gotten a huge upgrade to the interface… This is the industry app for creating professional printed type specimen books and font catalogs on the Mac. The design refresh presents a streamlined interface that emphasizes key features of the software and compliments the look of the latest Mac operating systems. The update also includes several under-the-hood changes and performance enhancements.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/typebook-creator-for-mac/
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11 Twenty Nine Incredibly Useful Web sites
The full title to this article by Devashish Patel, on Lifehack.org, is “29 Incredibly Useful Web sites You Wish You Knew Earlier”.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/08/29-incredibly-useful-websites/
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12 Quotes: Liberty
I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
– Thomas Jefferson
If you want to kill any idea in the world, get a committee working on it.
– Charles Kettering
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…and have a great week!
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Pau
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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 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 active in UGs since 1986, first the AOL UG Forum, then the User Group Network. He spoke at the original AppleWorld in 1987, and served as Apple User Group Advisory Board Member for three years. He founded the User Group Academy and the Appleseeds Foundation
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