by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 New year, new games, new educational opportunities for iPad and iPhone users
02 Apps for your new Mac: Utilities
03 Resume Star Bets You’ll Score the Interview
04 SCSC Releases a Major Update for Performance Probe for Mac OS X
05 Bulletproof backups for your Mac
06 AWUG
07 Top 10 lessons for the new Mac user
08 Goo, goo, gah, gah! Baby’s Firsts app is here.
09 Sky Guide 2.0 stargazing app launched with new iOS 7 features and UI
10 WillCrafter, an Estate Planning Manual, DIY Will, and Organizer
11 Scan Business Cards And Turn Them Into Contacts With Contact Snapper
12 Steps Plugin Released Exclusively for Final Cut Pro X
13 Las Vegas SuperMeet in April
14 Quotes – Ghandi, Napolean, and Maltz
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01 New year, new games, new educational opportunities for iPad and iPhone users
It’s a new year and we’re kicking things off in the Games department with a great line-up of American-made educational games! We find everything spelled right, and everything made for American learners. We invite you to share your findings, good or bad, with UGNN Infomanager readers! Have fun!!
* Snapling for iOS: Geolocation-Based Photographic Scavenger Hunt Game
* Flag it! feeds your brain – It makes you smarter every time you play
* New Concentration Game for iOS Will Challenge Your Brain
* The Man Who Puzzles America Launches Tic-Tac-Doku App
* Build Snow People With An App, Not Snow, This Winter
* Learning Countries and States no longer boring
…and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/games_infomanager_1401/
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02 Apps for your new Mac: Utilities
AppleInsider has listed some small, usually single-purpose apps that add to the Mac experience.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/apps-for-your-new-mac-utilities/
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03 Resume Star Bets You’ll Score the Interview
App studio is interested in getting you a job and helping to lower the unemployment rates so you can afford Obamacare. So, they’ve invented Resume Star for iOS, which produces a professionally-typeset PDF résumé right on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad. It is a full-featured résumé-generator App, with an interesting twist: You only pay for the software if you land the interview.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/resume-star/
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04 SCSC Releases a Major Update for Performance Probe for Mac OS X
Software and Computer Systems Company, LLC, (SCSC) has released a major update to their product, Performance Probe for the Mac OS X Operating System. Performance Probe is an operating system tool that allows users to monitor the overall effective loading of their systems while in use.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/mac-os-x_performance/
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05 Bulletproof backups for your Mac
I recently had reason to do a restore from backup and found that my backup was incomplete. So I became even more interested in this article by Shane Cole, when I saw it on AppleInsider.com.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/bulletproof-backups-for-your-mac/
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06 AWUG
I had thought that the AppleWorks User Group had gone away sometime back. They had announced the end in 2008. But apparently it is still around and also supports iWork apps.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/awug/
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07 Top 10 lessons for the new Mac user
Christopher Breen published this article on December 26th for Macworld.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/top-10-lessons-for-the-new-mac-user/
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08 Goo, goo, gah, gah! Baby’s Firsts app is here.
Goo, goo, goo. Don’t you hate it when people pull out their iPhones and start passing around their baby pictures? Oh, well, it’s bound to happen, and it’s just part of life. But, hey, Baby’s Firsts iOS application for iPhone and iPod touch is a whole new way to capture every moment of your baby’s first year. So, now there’s an app for that.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/goo-goo/
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09 Sky Guide 2.0 stargazing app launched with new iOS 7 features and UI
Those packing away the camping gear and calling it quits on summer have an update that might give them pause. Fifth Star Labs, makers of the popular stargazing app Sky Guide, have released their latest version on the App Store, with an interface lift à la iOS 7.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/sky-guide/
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10 WillCrafter, an Estate Planning Manual, DIY Will, and Organizer
Hey, nobody wants to think about the inevitible. But it’s coming. To make it a bit easier, BGCJ Productions has rolled out WillCrafter 1.0.1, its new productivity app. WillCrafter for iPad simplifies the mystique of estate planning, in a concise manual covering a myriad of topics, from property distribution to tax ramifications and much more.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/willcrafter_estate_planning/
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11 Scan Business Cards And Turn Them Into Contacts With Contact Snapper
Contact Snapper 2.3 for iOS is a business card scanner app that instantly converts business cards into contacts. Sporting an all-new design, Contact Snapper takes a stellar concept and converts it into a reality.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/contactsnapper/
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12 Steps Plugin Released Exclusively for Final Cut Pro X
Noise Industries has rolled out a pretty cool plug-in for Final Cut. Ripple Steps is designed exclusively for use in Final Cut Pro X, includes 12 unique and attractive transition effects to show steps in a process.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/steps_plugin_final_cut/
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13 Las Vegas SuperMeet in April
The Creative Pro User Group (CPUG) Network has announced that the Thirteenth Annual Las Vegas SuperMeet will take place on Tuesday, April 8, 2014 in the Royale Ballroom at the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Doors open at 4:30 PM with the SuperMeet Digital Showcase, featuring over 30 software and hardware developers. Presentations will begin at 7:00 PM and continue until 11:00 PM. Early bird tickets go on sale online only for the price of $10.00 each plus ticket fee (early bird price ends March 10, 2014) and $10.00 for students and teachers with valid student ID. It is expected this SuperMeet will sell out as historically every Las Vegas SuperMeet sells out.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/01/las-vegas-supermeet-in-april/
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14 Quotes – Ghandi, Napolean and Maltz
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
– Mahatma Ghandi
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
– Napolean Bonaparte
Accept yourself as you are. Otherwise you will never see opportunity. You will not feel free to move toward it; you will feel you are not deserving.
– Maxwell Maltz
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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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