by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Puzzles, puzzles, puzzle games for iPad and iPhone users
02 Sight Reader – Complete Music Notation Tool upgraded to v 2.0
03 Melody Pro – A Powerful and Versatile Music Notation App for iOS
04 Beat Boss – The electronic dance music sampler app with the most samples
05 Sound Siphon – Application audio as a microphone
06 Visionaries of the tech world who foresaw Apple’s future
07 Google’s sneaky new privacy change affects 85% of iPhone users
08 Make Your iPhone’s Battery Last
09 Classic Solitaire HD
10 Best Way to View MS Office Docs on iPad
11 Did you read: “Google’s sneaky new privacy change” above?
12 Quotes: What have you got to worry about?
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01 Puzzles, puzzles, puzzle games for iPad and iPhone users
Happy April! Getting the spring Games department rockin’ with a great line-up of American-made puzzle and mind games! Some of these are very addictive, so be careful – also, please share your findings – good or bad – with UGNN InfoManager readers! Have fun…
* Brain Fitness Fun; Strategy/Puzzler 5BY5 Brain Game Keeps You Thinking
* Lost Lands – an innovative puzzle game for logic puzzle enthusiasts
* Crossword for you Issue 01 – Popular puzzles and mind games
* Enjoy the thrill of playing against your Facebook friends
* Melesta Games launches puzzle game Freeze U for iOS
* The Pyramid Puzzle
…and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/1404_puzzle_games/
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02 Sight Reader – Complete Music Notation Tool upgraded to v 2.0
byte3 LLC today is pleased to announce the release of Sight Reader version 2.0 for iPad. Sight Reader is a comprehensive learning tool, providing an immersive and interactive learning experience for music students.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/sight-reader/
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03 Melody Pro – A Powerful and Versatile Music Notation App for iOS
Nextep LLC today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of Melody Pro 1.0, their new music notation app for iPad devices. Melody Pro is a multifunctional tool for aspiring and professional musicians and composers with several features that allow users to access their sheet music on-the-go.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/melody-pro/
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04 Beat Boss – The electronic dance music sampler app with the most samples
Electronic dance music fans and producers can now create a wide range of EDM synthesizer lines, drum beats and soundscapes with Beat Boss 1.0, the loop sampler app for iOS devices. It features an array of drum loops, bass lines and sound fx samples. Boasting up to 54 sound pads, it has the largest number of playable sound pads ever offered in a music app.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/beat-boss/
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05 Sound Siphon – Application audio as a microphone
Static Z Software has released Sound Siphon – the missing link in audio for your Mac. Sound Siphon is a software package that makes your Mac’s audio output available as an audio input device. It enables you to send audio from one application to another where it can be processed, streamed, or recorded. It’s as simple as selecting a microphone in your favorite app.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/sound-siphon/
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06 Visionaries of the tech world who foresaw Apple’s future
This article on AppleInsider was published on April 1st. It is an interesting look at people who have made predictions about Apple and how the author interprets those predictions.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/visionaries-of-the-tech-world-who-foresaw-apples-future/
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07 Google’s sneaky new privacy change affects 85% of iPhone users
According to this article on Quartz, “What Google really wants is for everybody to be signed in to their Google accounts all the time.”
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/googles-new-privacy-change-affects-85-of-iphone-users/
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08 Make Your iPhone’s Battery Last
Business Insider has this article by Lisa Eadicico and it covers several ideas on how to lengthen battery life on your iPhone.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/make-your-iphones-battery-last/
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09 Classic Solitaire HD
Classic Solitaire HD for Mac OS X is a precise copy of the original Klondike Solitaire card game included with millions of copies of the Microsoft Windows operating system.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/17793/
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10 Best Way to View MS Office Docs on iPad
Nektony has announced a new application for those who use Microsoft Office and iOS devices. Documents Viewer opens Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations, thus complementing the line of viewing tools as VSD Viewer that enables viewing of Microsoft Visio drawings. Commonly, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files can be opened on iOS. Natively, the iOS devices can display just the main document structure: dozen fonts and fonts formatting, lists, text boxes and images. Besides, they could be used as read-only documents.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/04/best-way-to-view-ms-office-docs-on-ipad/
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11 Did you read: “Google’s sneaky new privacy change” above?
You might begin to understand the invasion of privacy Web users are faced with. So many people are moaning about NSA, and even started a press feeding frienzy, while nobody makes a peep about Google. Google is targeting each and every single user of Gmail, Google search, Unlike NSA, Google is tracking your every move. No, not just numbers – they’re tracking, storing, analyzing and interpolating YOUR actual, real-time ID info – yes, that means YOU specifically. If you have Gmail, or you’re running Google on your mobile device, it’s like having a drone with a camera hovering over you each and every moment of every day. They record and track your origin, exit, location, likes, dislikes, contacts, purchases, searches, conversations, and vices – and then they crunch the data and leverage it to make money.
* Do a Google search for “insurance” and look over in the right-hand column. Do they know you?
But it’s not just Google. Try this: Go to Yahoo and search, or go to Yahoo “Answers”… What do you see?
* http://bit.ly/1lIIbCh (A google search for “insurance”) gave me
* this result http://www.ugnn.com/safenetting/2014/google_insurance.jpg
Compare and see what you get. If it’s not exactly like mine, send me a screen shot!
Then go to Yahoo or others. See what words are injected into the searches or landing pages. They will probably be tailored to your profile.
* http://www.ugnn.com/safenetting/2014/google_spy_ad.jpg
They know I’m from Harrisonburg – but guess what? If you click the ad, and go to the advertiser, you’ll find there’s NOTHING there having to do with ANY “new rules” whatsoever. It’s a spam page with gets paid revenue for “comparing” insurance rates. Google makes money, and Yahoo makes money. You get a bogus Web page having NOTHING to do with what the ad claimed. Try it and see if you get your location in an ad.
A commenter to the question “Is Google Spying on us” writes:
[quote]Chrome reports all your browsing to google servers incuding your IP address and some suspect it scans your computer too, google reads all your incoming and outgoing e-mails on g-mail and they store billions of Gbs from wireless networks during their streetview campaign, Android also sends details of your equipment and activity to google servers and many android apps are malicious and also steal your data, if you want to do business with people like that then go ahead but I bet you didn’t read the terms and conditions where you agreed to all that, you can’t trust them so why would you use anything they offer, even if it’s free? It also copies all your passwords and user details to google servers, so the only reason for its popularity must be the ignorance, gullibility and stupidity of its users.[end quote]
Read the full article here: http://bit.ly/1fKRDB2
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12 Quotes: What have you got to worry about?
As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.
– Julius Caesar
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn’t you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn’t most of them turn out all right after all?
– Dale Carnegie
One cannot change the past, but one can ruin the present by worrying over the future.
– Anonymous
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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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