by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Who will own the Internet if America gives it away?… OR, is this the end of the Internet as we know it?
02 Who will own the Internet? (2009) History repeats itself?
03 Tech & Science Expert Refutes Notion that Google Flu is a “Failure”
04 Five Tips for Better Passwords
05 How to Plan a Mobile App Project
06 IDG: Climate Change: How Tech Can Help
07 Microsoft Office for iPad apps
08 SaveDrives – Car Dashboard Video Camera
09 A Video Game that blends Action with Personal Debt Reduction
10 FmPro Migrator 7.12 Adds FileMaker 13 Table Consolidation Automation
11 Spense, Expense Tracker for iPhone, Adds Notes and Photos to Spense Plus
12 Whetstone Releases Complete Redesign of DayMap for Mac and iPhone
13 Packing Pro
14 Got an old phone? Put it to use, save a life
15 Quotes: speaking of travel
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01 Who will own the Internet if America gives it away?… OR, is this the end of the Internet as we know it?
As many, including UGN, predicted in 1998, the rule of ICANN has now come to the brink of turning the management of the Internet over to entities outside the U.S. who may not be friendly to the ideals of the Internet. Internet insiders have always maintained that InerNIC should never have been taken out of U.S. government control – and should have never changed the accountability structure of the Internet, DNS, and domain ownership. We are all fighting and dealing with the results of those decisions. You are now witnessing historic moments that will provide proof that the Clinton administration made, among others, one of the worst decisions in the history of modern mankind. Now, the Democrats, partnering with foreign pressure, want to erase the last vestiges of Internet safety and accountability.
Call your congressmen and let them know the U.S. should NOT lose control of the Internet.
Read more:
* Republicans urge administration to hit pause on Internet control transfer, push new bill
* Obama Administration Denies “Abandoning the Internet”
* House GOP leery of bid to end domain authority
* GOP Moves to Block U.S. Domain Name Shift
* GOP bill keeps US Internet control
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/end_of_the_internet/
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02 Who will own the Internet? (2009) History repeats itself
[Safenetting first published this article in 2009] It’s hard to believe that in a short fifteen years or so the Internet has grown so ubiquitous that the majority of the world truly believes it’s “just there”. There seems to be a diminishing number of Internet supporters who still realize and understand that if there was no U.S. involvement in the Internet there would be no Internet at all. The unquenchable greed for personal gain has blinded the Internet community from the brutal reality that an unregulated Internet is chaos.
http://www.ugnn.com/2009/08/who-will-own-the-internet/
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03 Tech & Science Expert Refutes Notion that Google Flu is a “Failure”
In 2009, Google announced that they suspected they could “accurately estimate the current level of weekly influenza activity in each region of the United States, with a reporting lag of about one day”. By tracking search engine behavior, the company hoped it could predict flu outbreaks even faster than the CDC.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/google_flu/
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04 Five Tips for Better Passwords
Peter Cohen has written this article on iMore about how to provide better security though your passwords.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/5-tips-for-better-passwords/
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05 How to Plan a Mobile App Project
Matt Blair posted this article on nten.org. He has worked on more than a dozen apps for iOS. This article covers insights he has gained over the last few years.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/how-to-plan-a-mobile-app-project/
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06 IDG: Climate Change: How Tech Can Help
Technology is usually the first to be blamed for climate change, but could the industry turn its reputation from red to Green? This week we look at whether technology could actually provide a solution to global warming, with a new report from Greenpeace on the greenest global tech companies, and an investigation into differing views on Green IT. What do you think? Is technology the cause or the solution to climate change?
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/idggreen_it/
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07 Microsoft Office for iPad apps
Many people have been looking for Microsoft Office apps on the iPad for some time now. A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft finally released it.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/microsoft-office-for-ipad-apps/
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08 SaveDrives – Car Dashboard Video Camera
Cupertino, California – Drivers who want to help reduce potential damage to their health and finances in the event of an accident should download the innovative new no-cost app SaveDrives – Car Dashboard Video Camera & Help In Auto Accident from SellanApp.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/savedrives-car-dashboard-video-camera/
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09 A Video Game that blends Action with Personal Debt Reduction
My Mountain of Debt is an innovative iOS app that helps consumers view and reduce their personal financial debts. The goal of My Mountain of Debt is to make paying off debt visual and fun so users will be more likely to stick to their debt reduction efforts. The need for such a service is considerable, with 2012 data reporting average household credit card debt of $15,328, and an average student loan balance of $34,703.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/mountain_of_debt/
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10 FmPro Migrator 7.12 Adds FileMaker 13 Table Consolidation Automation
FmPro Migrator Developer Edition 7.12 now has support for FileMaker Pro Advanced 13 table consolidation projects using AppleScript GUI automation. This release supports FileMaker Pro Advanced 11, FileMaker Pro Advanced 12 and FileMaker Pro Advanced 13 running on MacOS X 10.6 – 10.9.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/fmpro-migrator/
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11 Spense, Expense Tracker for iPhone, Adds Notes and Photos to Spense Plus
Here comes Spense 1.2, an update to a popular financial app developed for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. Spense is an easy, quick, and simple way to keep a journal of your day-to-day spending. Set a spending target and a repeat cycle, and each transaction you enter is immediately deducted from your balance.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/spense/
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12 Whetstone Releases Complete Redesign of DayMap for Mac and iPhone
DayMap 1.8 for Mac and 1.4 for iPhone has a completely redesigned user interface, allowing for a larger workspace. Full screen mode for the Project Outliner and Weekly/Monthly Scheduler, multiple keyboard shortcuts and contextual menu have also been added.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/whetstone/
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13 Packing Pro
Packing Pro, a travel app for the iPhone, iPad & iPod touch by QuinnScape, is celebrating its 5th anniversary on the App Store. Originally based on the Packing (+TO DO!) app, which was released six months earlier, these apps were two of the first few thousand apps on the App Store, compared to the over one million that are currently there today.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/packing-pro/
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14 Got an old phone? Put it to use, save a life
Verizon is committed to helping the nearly one in four women, one in seven men, and more than 3 million children in the United States affected by domestic violence. HopeLine is helping to end this epidemic by collecting no-longer-used wireless phones and accessories and turning them into support for domestic violence organizations nationwide. Through HopeLine hundreds of thousands of phones have come in, and millions of dollars in cash grants have been awarded to partner agencies.
http://www.verizonwireless.com/aboutus/hopeline/index.html
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15 Quotes: speaking of travel:
He who is outside his door already has the hard part of his journey behind him.
– Dutch proverb
My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.
– Diane Arbus
The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only one page.
– St Augustine
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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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