by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 CISPA – Obama? Google? NSA? DHS? Al Qaeda? Who?
02 Teachers With Apps CERTIFIED
03 Parent’s Assistant
04 Augmented Reality: Hype, Research & Effects
05 Air Media Server
06 Switching To Mac
07 Cyber Security – Beijing, South Korea and Hacker superstars
08 Fact Checking
09 Seven Ways to Keep Your Secrets Safe Online
10 The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype
11 Quotes: What about time?
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01 CISPA – Obama? Google? NSA? DHS? Al Qaeda? Who?
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report
Following along with the CISPA issues, and the recent “awakenings” about Google, and Google Glass, and the NSA, it is such an interesting experiment in the “social” human. That’s why we have included Obama’s video on the subject below. You recall people on Facebook who shared and liked insane political propaganda depicting Obama as the second coming of Jesus Christ during the campaign – but now, they’re insanely against his policies. But then in the next moment, they click Google to search for something. They either don’t get it – or they’re in denial. Anyway, read it with a level eye by following the InfoManager…
* NSA revelations throw wrench into lawmakers’ cybersecurity push
* Michael Seeds: Behind-the-scenes cyber advocate
* 6 tech policy issues you should be following
* DHS hopes get same cyber-spying powers as NSA
* Obama: “No One Is Listening To Your Phone Calls”
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/cispa_0708/
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02 Teachers With Apps CERTIFIED
Southampton, New York – Teachers With Apps has announced 25 apps honored with the Teachers With Apps CERTIFIED badge of approval. The Teachers With Apps Certification Program was designed to recognize apps that go above and beyond excellent. This distinction is awarded to education apps that prove exemplary in the following areas: content, presentation, and execution, as well as overall user experience.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/teachers-with-apps-certified/
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03 Parent’s Assistant
This is a list of apps for iPhone and/or iPad that help with parenting. It comes from a Web site called App Advice.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/parents-assistant/
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04 Augmented Reality: Hype, Research & Effects
Augmented Reality – media hype, or the future? Google Glass seems to have made augmented reality a reality. But is it really AR? And just how useful can AR actually be? This week we look the reality of augmented reality with personal views, the potential for training, and the effect of AR on everyday life.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/augmented-reality/
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05 Air Media Server
I’m always looking for ways to expand video usage on my Mac. My Mac User Group had presentations on a number of AirPlay devices and apps at the first of the year as well as one more recently on building a media server using Plex on the Mac and using a Roku box to receive the Plex video. We only briefly mentioned that someone has figure out how how to use the Trailers app on AppleTV to receive Plex video as well. Air Media Server would be a competitive product to Plex and would run natively on each device…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/air-media-server/
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06 Switching To Mac
This is a Web site dedicated to those who used Windows machines before switching to Macintosh or those who are just considering the switch.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/switching-to-mac/
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07 Cyber Security – Beijing, South Korea and Hacker superstars
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cyber Security report
Beijing, Army Reserves, Hacker superstars and South Korea all in the news this week – but amazingly, things seem to be slowing down, or else more is happening we’re not being told about!
This is the nineth installment of the infomanager: “Cybersecurity”
* Cyber Security: Beijing wants US to help settle regional tension
* Cyber security: Why it needs to be a board-level issue
* Army Reserves will become cyber security specialists
* Hacking competitions seek cybersecurity superstars
* Financial Industry Is Serious About Cybersecurity
* South Korea to Train 5000 Cybersecurity Experts
* Cyber Experts Unite To Halt “Gunpowder Moment”
* China ready to talk cyber security
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/cyber_security_07/
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08 Fact Checking
If you, like me, are getting tired of all the ridiculous stories that are spread across the social networks, then you will appreciate this list of Fact Checking Web site.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/fact-checking/
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09 Seven Ways to Keep Your Secrets Safe Online
More than a quarter of college admissions officers have Googled or “Facebooked” potential applicants, reports the Huffington Post. It’s probably not that they expect you to be a criminal, they’re double checking to make sure your persona matches your claims. And they’re not the only ones.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/07/keep_secrets_safe_online/
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10 The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype
This week’s bursts from Terry “The Mac Doctor” Bowman, come with the subject line: “Is your movie strobing?” (among others!)
Digital video guru and author of The MPEG Handbook, John Watkinson, examines the next generation of TV and film and reveals it shouldn’t be anything like what we’re being sold today. http://bit.ly/11DWgWX
… but then writes :
Mavook: Author of the Flashback worm
adding :
“BTW, I have a copy of the page that infects you (you have to click OK to download it).”
* http://bit.ly/10uvqNK
Then he cautions :
Creative Cloud has already been cracked. So much for copy protection.
GRAPHICS SOFTWARE FIRM Adobe’s Creative Cloud software suite has been cracked within 24 hours of going live. Releasing the suite of applications for both professionals and consumers on Tuesday, Adobe’s Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) 14 for Windows, as well as copies of Dreamweaver CC 13 and Adobe Illustrator CC 17 have already found to be circulating via two magnet links on bittorrent Web sites.
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11 Quotes: What about time?
Time is more valuable than money. You can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
–Jim Rohn
Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
–Carl Sandburg
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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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