by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 User Groups on Facebook 2-7-2015
02 Turn Your Device into a Navigation System and Travel Planner with MapItOut
03 Translator Speak and Translate Is An Interpreter for 100 Languages
04 How to encrypt your Mac with FileVault 2, and why you absolutely should
05 Put The Words In Order To Solve Puzzles And Earn Rewards – GoPhrazy
06 Introduction to Pixelmator for Mac and iPad
07 myNews – 5000 Newspapers on your Mac
08 Audio Switcher 2.5.2
09 Quotes: John F. Kennedy
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01 User Groups on Facebook 2-7-2015
Mac User Groups on Facebook Here is some more great content items posted by user group members on Facebook!
If you’re not already with us, please feel free to jump in…
* Bye Bye, iPhoto: Apple Reboots With Photos for Mac
* Everything you need to know about Apple’s new Photos app for Mac
* New Sports Channels on AppleTV
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/user-groups-on-facebook-2-7-2015/
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02 Turn Your Device into a Navigation System and Travel Planner
If you travel, and like to have an on-board travel planner, check this out. MapItOut 11.2, an update to his travel app for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. Users can make their travel plans with MapItOut’s online tools to quickly create maps and access them offline.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/mapitout/
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03 Translator Speak and Translate Is An Interpreter for 100 Languages
People who want to communicate easily and effectively while traveling in a foreign country can now head to the App Store or Google Play, and download Pavel Donov’s extraordinary new no-cost app Translator Speak and Translate.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/translator/
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04 Encrypt your Mac with FileVault 2, and why you absolutely should
FileVault 2 can make nations quake, apparently, but it’s just a bit of good information hygiene, letting you make choices about the degree of vulnerability you want to tolerate. With it off, you’re not risking everything, but with it on, you have a high degree of assurance about who can access what.
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05 Put The Words In Order To Solve Puzzles And Earn Rewards
GoPhrazy is a wild new word puzzle game for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch devices. GoPhrazy displays words of a famous quote or funny phrase and challenges players to solve each puzzle by tapping on each word in the correct order. There are hundreds of different puzzles to solve and players also have the option of creating their own puzzles.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/gophrazy-2/
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06 Introduction to Pixelmator for Mac and iPad
This two-part article is on Tuts+.
I have long been an advocate of Pixelmator on the Mac. Now I have it on my iPad as well and believe that it is the best graphic editing app for iOS.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/introduction-to-pixelmator-for-mac-and-ipad/
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07 myNews – 5000 Newspapers on your Mac
Following in the footsteps of myNews app for iOS, AppGeneration has released the media app for Mac OS X users. With myNews you can browse more than 5000 online newspapers from 80 countries. It also allows you to read the news on your native language without having to leave the app. Since it auto translates newspaper Web sites, it enables you to read a Chinese newspaper in Russian, an English tech magazine in Spanish or a Thai economic newspaper in French!
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/mynews-5000-newspapers-on-your-mac/
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08 Audio Switcher 2.5.2
Audio Switcher 2.5.2 is an update for the popular menubar applet utility developed exclusively for Mac OS X. Audio Switcher allows you to quickly switch your audio input and output between different audio devices. The app resides in the Status Bar, making it conveniently accessible from any application.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/02/audio-switcher-2-5-2/
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09 Quotes: John F. Kennedy
Let us never negotiate out of fear but let us never fear to negotiate.
– John F. Kennedy
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…and have a great week!
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Pau
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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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