by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Fun apps for the kids and the folks for the holidays
02 iPad InfoManager: Ready for December!
03 Safenetting Cybersecurity & Malware Report for December 2014
04 Macintosh User Groups on Facebook 12/6/2014
05 Now edit Microsoft Office documents from within Dropbox
06 Five fixes for OS X Yosemite
07 PDFpen 2 for iOS 8
08 Never Lose Your Stuff Again: 6 Bluetooth Trackers Reviewed
09 I Almost Fell for This Apple ID Phishing E-mail
10 Quotes: Simmons, Gandhi and Einstein
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01 Fun apps for the kids and the folks for the holidays
iPad Apps InfoManager for Hallowe’en. Okay, the kids are having a great time, but what about those of us who are over the hill? Well, for adult apps, the Apps InfoManager assures you it’s okay to have a little fun! The holiday season will soon be over for another year, so c’mon and get going
* A Peanuts Holiday Classic Interactive Pop-up Book for All Ages
* Greetings and Best Wishes for Christmas
* Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas Tree
* Oh, the noise, noise, noise…
* Christmas Wallpapers
* Holiday Greeting Cards
…and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/apps_for_the_holidays/
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02 iPad InfoManager: Ready for December!
The year is almost over, and there isn’t much else to say other than here comes the 2015 iPad hype, right on time! Follow along as we catch up with the latest on iTunes, iPad and iPhone.
* iPad Mini 3 vs Sony Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact: Step Aside Sony, Apple Still Has The Best Tablet
* iTunes 12 Sync Problems: Why Doesn’t Syncing from iTunes to iOS Devices Work?
* Apple Makes It Near Impossible to Unlock a Deceased Relative’s iPad
* iPad Air 2 vs. iPad Mini 3 –Which Apple Tablet Should You Choose?
* iOS 8.2 for iPhone & iPad: What You Need to Know Right Now
* Is Apple Inc. Losing the $5 Billion Ed-Tech Market?
* How Apple’s iPad Could Flourish Once Again
* How L.A. Unified got its iPad contract… and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/ipad_infomanager_1412/
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03 Safenetting Cybersecurity & Malware Report for December 2014
NOW is the season we wrench it up to high alert. Amazon is pumping out at least one spam every two days. Some online vendors pumping even more. It will be real easy for cybercrime to slip on in without many people noticing. Many people have not wised up to phishing, stalking, malware and the other evils that lurk in their e-mail and on Web sites. Why is that? We have to be vigilant and help everyone stay safe…
* Antivirus Companies Should Be More Open About Their Government Malware Discoveries
* Destructive malware that hit Sony Pictures similar to other data wiping programs
* How to find malware? It’s hidden malware here, there and everywhere
* Facebook Users Now Get ESET Online Scanner to Fight Malware
* Cybercriminals Preloading Chinese E-Cigarettes with Malware
* Apple entering a “whack-a-mole” era of malware defense
* Malware alert: ignore that order confirmation e-mail!
* Cheap Android smartphones pre-loaded with malware
and a lot more! Please share this!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/cybersecurity_1412/
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04 Macintosh User Groups on Facebook 12/6/2014
This week’s subject on UG’s Facebook pages are listed below. If you know of any user groups on Facebook that aren’t mentioned, please let us know. This week we saw:
[_] Tests show modern SSDs can handle a thousand years of use
[_] Steve Wozniak on Apple, the Computer Revolution, and Working With Steve Jobs
[_] How to Change the Default Safari Search Engine in Yosemite
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/macintosh-user-groups-on-facebook-1262014/
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05 Now edit Microsoft Office documents from within Dropbox
According to Mashable, we can now edit Microsoft Office documents stored in Dropbox.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/now-edit-microsoft-office-documents-from-within-dropbox/
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06 Five fixes for OS X Yosemite
This article from the TidBITS folks gives some good advice.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/five-fixes-for-os-x-yosemite/
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07 PDFpen 2 for iOS 8
Smile, the developer of productivity applications for Mac, iPhone and iPad, has announced the release of PDFpen 2 (v2.0), a new version of its popular PDF editor developed for iPhone and iPad devices. PDFpen 2 is fully optimized for iOS 8 with an all new look and feel which runs on both iPad and iPhone. The enhanced toolbar and new editing bar make popular writing and highlighting features easy to access, with minimal taps.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/12/pdfpen-2-for-ios-8/
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08 Never Lose Your Stuff Again: 6 Bluetooth Trackers Reviewed
The development of a new kind of Bluetooth radio system, Bluetooth LE (for “low energy”), has unlocked entire new categories of tech gadgets, including smartwatches, fitness trackers, and now, tiny tracking devices. Another great article by one of my favorite people, David Pogue!
[I sure wish he would get off of Yahoo… all the intrusion alerts went off on this page as it attempted to download files to my computer. But it’s a good read, so I just selected ALL, copied and pasted into BBEdit, so I could read the article in peace.]
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09 I Almost Fell for This Apple ID Phishing E-mail
Kirk McElhearn wrote: I almost fell for this; until I read the subject line.
iPhone 3; seriously? These guys need to update their stuff.
Kirk has a great blog called “Kirkville” – I recommend it to all Apple users. He writes about Macs, iPods, iTunes, books, music and more. He is a Senior Contributor to Macworld, where he is The iTunes Guy; he is also a regular contributor to TidBITS, The Loop Magazine, as well as several other Web sites and magazines.
http://www.mcelhearn.com/i-almost-fell-for-this-apple-id-phishing-email/
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10 Quotes: Simmons, Gandhi and Einstein
We don’t live in a world of reality, we live in a world of perceptions.
– Gerald J. Simmons
Keep my word positive. Words become my behaviors. Keep my behaviors positive. Behaviors become my habits. Keep my habits positive. Habits become my values. Keep my values positive. Values become my destiny.
– Mahatma Gandhi
The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.
– Albert Einstein
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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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