InfoManager for Monday, July 15, 2013

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

What’s Here:
01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Breakins, Hacks, JULY
02 ZipZapMac Releases Periscope Pro
03 Enhancing Reminders with AppleScript and Macros
04 How to block an unwanted caller’s number on an iPhone
05 Summer 2013 Mac Bundle
06 Eight Ways to Make Facebook Less Annoying
07 UGNN Facebook Update: Crime & crisis; slice of society
08 IDG: Wearable Tech | The Human Cloud | Internet of Things
09 Quotes: focus on books

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01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Breakins, Hacks, JULY

User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report
Hacks and break-ins now represent the worst of the spam and phishing – and it’s becoming more and more difficult to pinpoint the criminals. This week’s Safenetting evils are:
* FBI Warns Public That Cyber-Criminals Continue to Use Spear-Phishing Attacks
* Mobile malware, mainly aimed at Android devices, jumps 614% in a year
* Dramatic increase in phishing scams as criminals target Apple IDs
* US government spent $3m removing malware that did not exist
* Five ways hackers attack you (and how to counter them)
* What’s the Difference Between Malware and Viruses?
* Mobile attackers getting more calculated: Juniper
and more…

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/safenetting_july/

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02 ZipZapMac Releases Periscope Pro

ZipZapMac has released Periscope Pro, an application that turns a Mac into a multi-featured video surveillance system. Most computer-based video surveillance software takes videos regularly at a pre-set interval, generating hundreds or even thousands of useless clips that have to be sorted through to find what the user wants. But Periscope Pro can be set to shoot only when there is motion, that is, activity going on, capturing exactly what the user is looking for, saving enormous amounts of search time and storage.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/zipzapmac-releases-periscope-pro/

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03 Enhancing Reminders with AppleScript and Macros

Federico Viticci on MacStories has this article about using AppleScript and macros to make Apple’s Reminders app more useable.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/enhancing-reminders-with-applescript-and-macros/

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04 How to block an unwanted caller’s number on an iPhone

I actually had this issue a couple of weeks ago when my granddaughter started getting harassing phone calls from a former friend. So I was happy to find this article on the Macworld UK Web site.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/how-to-block-an-unwanted-callers-number-on-an-iphone/

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05 Summer 2013 Mac Bundle

Cult of Mac has their annual Summer Mac Bundle special running for the next 12 days (ends July 25th).

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/summer-2013-mac-bundle/

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06 Eight Ways to Make Facebook Less Annoying

This article by Andrew Hayward on the Mac|Life Web site gives us eight ways to make Facebook more enjoyable.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/8-ways-to-make-facebook-less-annoying/

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07 UGNN Facebook Update: Crime & crisis; slice of society

Facebook is growing up and we’re watching as it works its way into the grain of society
* Facebook photo led to vicious murder and 15 years in Dubai jail for killer
* Facebook Felon Justin Carter Makes Bail – Anonymous Source Posts $500,000.00
* Facebook Chat-Written ADVENTURES OF BOY AND GIRL Set for NYMF
* Facebook comments lead deputies to robbery suspect
* Kentucky woman using Facebook to reunite pets, owners
* Why you should deactivate your Facebook account
* Facebook spat leads to stabbing in Asheboro
* Sex blogger’s Facebook page shut down
* Facebook photo spot panned
…and more

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/facebook_july/

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08 IDG: Wearable Tech | The Human Cloud | Internet of Things

Augmented_Reality
With Google Glass anticipated early next year and rumours of the iWatch, wearable tech is grabbing the headlines at the moment. According to a recent telephone poll though, only 42% of Americans said they would buy or wear a smart watch, so if the future of wearable tech doesn’t seem that bright with consumers, what about the enterprise? This week we look at whether wearable tech has a place in the enterprise, explore its production value rather than its novelty value, and look at some of the challenges this journey into device innovation presents.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/wearable-tech/#more-16140

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09 Quotes: focus on books

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
–Franz Kafka

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
–George Bernard Shaw

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
–Jesse Lee Bennett

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…and have a great week!

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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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