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Were You at the Meeting Last Night?

If not, you missed a lot of stuff your iDevices need you to know, and a chance to buy the winning golden ticket! At Coco’s, it was AES and Schrödinger’s cat. That’s my story; I’m sticking to it!

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InfoManager for Monday, August 15th, 2016

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here 01 TunesKit DRM Media Converter for Mac Now Supports More Output Formats 02 From Lawn Mowing to Roofing, the BizNitz App Makes Home Improvement Easy 03 MUG Websites for August … Continue reading

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Mac Work class, subject TBA, at Di-No Computers. Di-No Computers 2817 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA  91107 (626) 795-6674

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Navigating the Interface class, at Di-No Computers. Di-No Computers 2817 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA  91107 (626) 795-6674

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The (Internet) World Is a Lesser Place

Alas and alack! Kagi, one of the earliest, and one of the best, digital commerce concerns, has been forced to close their doors. Adam Engst has an in-depth piece on TidBITS: The news was as sad as it was unexpected. … Continue reading

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Reminder: Mac Class at Di-No

Tomorrow, at 2:00p, is the Intro to the Interface class, at Di-No Computers. Di-No Computers 2817 E. Foothill Blvd. Pasadena, CA  91107 (626) 795-6674

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InfoManager for Monday, August 1st, 2016

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker What’s Here 01  Cyber Security Update: Rio Olympics, Car Hacking, Jihadi, Trump, Clinton, Putin, Obama, Microsoft, iOS Smishing, and much more! 02  Now you can dress and undress your favorite candidates Trump, … Continue reading

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August 15th General Meeting

Embed from Getty Images   iDevice Security They need to be safe and sound, too Regular Features Apps & Traps – Our essential monthly feature on interesting new products and services for iOS and OS X, brought to you by Dave … Continue reading

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Wireless Hacked!

Wonderful! Just what we needed to hear: wireless keyboards can be hacked… Noticed this on TidBITS this afternoon, from Josh Centers: Bastille, a cybersecurity company, has shown that hackers can easily intercept transmissions from eight non-Bluetooth wireless keyboards. Experts demonstrated … Continue reading

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Search Engine Coolness

And no, I don’t mean Google or Bing. DuckDuckGo is the search engine I have selected on my iDevices (those whose versions of Safari are modern enough to support it, anyway), and I love it. It behaves very well, it … Continue reading

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