by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 A bit of Christmas history
02 Ten Mac Preview Application Tricks
03 Top 10 Projects, Features, and Tips Every Mac User Should Try
04 iPhone 5s Complete Guide eBook
05 Jumsoft Adds Dropbox Support to Money for iPhone and iPad
06 Free Fonts Christmas Collection
07 TypeBook Creator May be your perfect fonts companion
08 Pocket Informant Pro gets pretty cool update
09 Free Christmas karaoke app just in time for the holidays
10 Crazy festive fun with free app launch: Santa’s Reindeer Rush
11 Felt Board Christmas is Now Available for iPhone and iPad
12 Quotes: Thankfulness
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01 A bit of Christmas history
Famous UG magnet George Engel writes: Christmas History – Few and far between are the denizens of the industrialized world who can escape the secular trappings of the Christmas season, perhaps best exemplified by Santa Claus and his loyal team of nine enchanted (or, at least, telekinetic) reindeer: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, and Rudolph – the latter also sporting the superpower of a hyper-illuminated red nose.
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02 Ten Mac Preview Application Tricks
This is an older article (2008) on UsingMac.com. But these tricks are still useful.
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03 Top 10 Projects, Features, and Tips Every Mac User Should Try
This article on Lifehacker gives us some things to try that we may have never have thought to try. There are 10 items that will make your life more interesting. And probably will save you some time and effort as well.
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04 iPhone 5s Complete Guide eBook
Stopframe Ltd has announced its latest eBook: iPhone 5s Complete Guide. Available today in the Amazon store, this brand-new title by the expert team at iOS Guides is packed with in-depth tutorials and high-resolution imagery, revealing everything you need to know about iPhone 5s.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/iphone-5s-complete-guide-ebook/
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05 Jumsoft Adds Dropbox Support to Money for iPhone and iPad
Jumsoft, a developer of applications for Mac OS X and iOS, has released a key update to the iPhone and iPad versions of its most popular product, the finance and budgeting app Money by Jumsoft. Enhancements to the updated app include the ability to store Money documents on Dropbox and to access them from any of the three versions of Money.
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06 Free Fonts Christmas Collection
128bit Technologies has announced a new holiday collection of 25 free fonts is available on the Mac App Store under the name: Free Fonts – Christmas Collection. When all you want for Christmas is some new free fonts, unwrap some beautifully inspired text styles that will make any holiday project a smash!
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/free-fonts-christmas-collection/
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07 TypeBook Creator May be your perfect fonts companion
The new Mac font management app will become the graphic arts industry standard for creating professional printed type specimen books and font catalogs on the Mac. TypeWise features a fast-scrolling WYSIWYG font list, gorgeous repertoire, sample text, body copy and character set layouts. Plus Veenix’s powerful GlyphLogicEngine technology which analyzes font characteristics and more.
http://www.veenix.com/TypeWise.html
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08 Pocket Informant Pro gets pretty cool update
Pocket Informant is built with the simple premise of bringing everything about your day into one location, and making it beautifully simple to use. Your calendar, task list, notes and contacts all under one roof make it possible to streamline your day, thus allowing more time to do the important things of life. We realize that no two users are exactly the same, so we have made nearly everything within the app to be customizable, from how much information is shown each day to the colors of the calendars, and everything in between. (iPhone link: http://bit.ly/IC5Y5q); for iPad:
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09 Free Christmas karaoke app just in time for the holidays
Kids Carols, a free Christmas karaoke app designed especially for kids. Compatible with iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices, this app allows users to sing along to their favorite holiday music. Kids Carols comes with three free CD-quality songs (The Christmas Song, Winter Wonderland, and Jingle Bells). Additional songs can be purchased individually or in bulk. Kids Carols features 13 of the most popular Christmas carols (Beware: this is a German product, and songs don’t sound quite exactly as the American versions do!)
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10 Crazy festive fun with free app launch: Santa’s Reindeer Rush
It’s Christmas Eve, Randolph the Reindeer has overslept, he’s late for work and it’s up to you to help him reach Santa’s sleigh before it’s too late. But it’s not going to be easy. As Randolph runs, he must avoid the deadly holly, bear traps, icicles and killer wolves as he dashes through the snow collecting candy canes in this festive runner.
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11 Felt Board Christmas is Now Available for iPhone and iPad
Felt Board Christmas, a fun and festive creativity app by Software Smoothie is now available on the Apple App Store. Inspired by the original award-winning Felt Board app for the iPad, Felt Board Christmas includes colorful, felt-like backgrounds, characters, scenery and accessories that enable children to play creatively and decorate for the holidays. With Felt Board Christmas app children are captivated by numerous activities, all having to do with the Holidays!
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12 Quotes: Thankfulness
Be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.
– Oprah Winfrey
Keep a grateful journal. Every night, list five things that you are grateful for. What it will begin to do is change your perspective of your day and your life.
– Oprah Winfrey (adapted from Benjamin Franklin quote)
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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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