InfoManager for Monday, August 5, 2013

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker

What’s Here:
01 Consumer Alert: Pirated Software May Contain Malware
02 Teachers With Apps Recognizes Outstanding App Developers
03 How to change your mood in a minute – with the FilmOneFest app
04 Cult of Mac Bundle
05 Cocktail 6.6
06 MacMate with 10GB Cloud Storage for Mac
07 Vukee M is an Easy Way for Anyone to Sell iPhone and Android Photos
08 Flarelight Effects for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects
09 It’s Here – Preview Lightworks for Mac
10 Ten Essential Apps For Your Mac
11 Why PCs and post-PC devices are different
12 Quotes: Taking a Vacation

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ALERTS: CNN spoof alert:
http://www.ugnn.com/safenetting/ALERTS/CNN-DRUG_CARTELS.html

ALERT: looks like a free gift card, or “estimate” from Kohls, Lowes, or Home Depot:
http://www.graphic-design.com/pin//Kohls_phishing.html

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01 Consumer Alert: Pirated Software May Contain Malware

You decide to order some software from an unknown online seller. The price is so low you just can’t pass it up. What could go wrong? Plenty. Whether you’re downloading it or buying a physical disc, the odds are good that the product is pirated and laced with malicious software, or malware.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/pirated_software_malware/

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02 Teachers With Apps Recognizes Outstanding App Developers

Teachers With Apps is pleased to announce their Teachers With Apps Certified Developer program. To kick off this initiative, they are honoring 15 App Developers who have consistently brought education apps to the mobile platform that are exemplary in the following areas: content, presentation, and execution, as well as overall user experience.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/outstanding_app-developers/

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03 How to change your mood in a minute – with the FilmOneFest app

Polymash Inc. has announced the release of the FilmOneFest app for the third consecutive year. The FilmOneFest app is curated by a panel of film critics who have created an outstanding collection of one-minute films from all around the world. The app shows not only the films but contains filmmakers’ statements and stories. The app accepts ongoing submissions to FilmOneFest throughout the year, culminating in the selection of one-minute films to be shown at each year’s festival.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/filmonefest_app/

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04 Cult of Mac Bundle

Nicholas Pyers of AppleUsers.org sent me the following message about the latest Cult of Mac Bundle. (Bundle 2.0)

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/cult-of-mac-bundle/

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05 Cocktail 6.6

Maintain has announced the release of Cocktail 6.6 (Mountain Lion Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail for users running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/cocktail-6-6/

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06 MacMate with 10GB Cloud Storage for Mac

MacMatec now offers a free 10GB Disk version, which pits their service directly with other popular cloud services like Dropbox & Google Drive. MacMate Disk also includes its easy-to-use filesharing feature with upgrade options right up to 2TB, as well as a free iOS App for accessing your files on the move. MacMate is designed to be simple to use, with familiar drag-and-drop for uploading & downloading files.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/macmate-with-10gb-cloud-storage-for-mac/

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07 vukee M is an Easy Way for Anyone to Sell iPhone and Android Photos

People who love taking photos with their smartphone can now turn their passion into profit and boost their secondary income by downloading the innovative new app vukee M from vukee. vukee M lets users simply and easily upload their device’s photos to vukee’s online Mobile Marketplace, and instantly get exposure to thousands of agencies, editors, commercial buyers, and other potential customers.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/vukee/

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08 Flarelight Effects for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro and After Effects

Noise Industries has added PHYX Flarelight to its plugin platform FxFactory. Designed for use in Final Cut Pro 7 and X, Motion, and Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, PHYX Flarelight is a collection of visual effects and generators that allows editors to add realistic lens flares, industrial-strength glows and anamorphic streaks to footage.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/flarelight_effects/

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09 It’s Here – Preview Lightworks for Mac

The highly-anticipated Mac version of Lightworks, EditShare’s popular cross-platform editing software, was demonstrated for the first time at NAB 2013 in Las Vegas.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/preview_lightworks/

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10 Ten Essential Apps For Your Mac

Most of you already know how much I love lists. This one on MacTrast got my attention. What do you think about these? Are they truly essential? (This one is by J. Glenn Kunzler.)

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/ten-essential-apps-for-your-mac/

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11 Why PCs and post-PC devices are different

Matt Baxter-Reynolds has posted an article on ZDNet saying that they ARE different and should maintain that difference.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/08/why-pcs-and-post-pc-devices-are-different/

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12 Quotes: Taking a Vacation

Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on VACATION and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.
– Susan Sontag, 1933 American Essayist

I had a rough marriage – finally we decided we should either take a vacation or get a divorce. We discussed it very maturely and we decided on the divorce because we felt we had a limited amount of money to spend. A vacation in Bermuda is over in two weeks but a divorce is something that you always have.
– Woody Allen

Laughter is an instant vacation.
– Milton Berle

No vacation goes unpunished.
– Karl A. Hakkarainen

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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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