by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Travel and RV Apps for Kindle/Android/iPad/iPhone
02 Browsers for Macintosh
03 Camino Browser – RIP
04 How to Troubleshoot Four Mac Problems
05 Did Apple Buy Grokr?
06 Cyber Security: heating up for summer
07 Themes Back on the Mac
08 Easy Way to Resize Photos For E-mail or Web: Image Resizer Deluxe
09 New Peterson Mobile App For Budget-Conscious Nature Lovers
10 Blocks Rock! App Based on Student Invention Now Available for iOS
11 Supercomputer Watson to be Customer Service Rep
12 Quotes: Benjamin Franklin
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01 Travel and RV Apps for Kindle/Android/iPad/iPhone
UGNN InfoManager news all about Apple and Apple computers – Time to hit the road in your RV ??? Doing some road trips? This summer more and more travelers will be taking to the road rather than airports! Here are just a few of the apps we’re trying for our road experiences. If you try them, or others, please send along your feedback!
* eWeather HD – Weather, HD Radar, Alerts, Quakes, Barometer
* RV Helper (Kindle Tablet Edition)
* RV Roadtrip Checklist Planner
* Camp and RV by AllStays
* RV Camps Locator
* Camp Finder
* MotorHome
…and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/rv_travel_apps/
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02 Browsers for Macintosh
After posting the article about the demise of Camino, I wondered how many browser options we still have beyond the big three.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/browsers-for-macintosh/
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03 Camino Browser – RIP
On the Camino blog, there is an announcement that Camino development has ended. I found Camino to be a nice browser, and I have it in my applications folder, but it hadn’t kept up with the new features of Safari, Chrome and Firefox.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/camino-browser-rip/#more-15892
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04 How to Troubleshoot Four Mac Problems
During the life of a Mac there can be problems with the computer. This article on Lifehacker is entitled “How to Troubleshoot the Four Most Common ‘Oh Sh*t’ Mac Problems”.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/how-to-troubleshoot-4-mac-problems/
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05 Did Apple Buy Grokr?
This column was originally called the UGNN Rumor Manager. While I picked the name in homage to the Boston Computer Society’s BBS back in the day, I was thinking of trying to cover Apple Rumors in much the same way as MacRumors does today. (Although I must admit they do a better job than I ever considered.)
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/did-apple-buy-grokr/
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06 Cyber Security: heating up for summer
User Group Network UGN Safenetting and Cybercrime report – We continue our coverage of the ever-growing cybercrime threat – and CISPA legislation rift between privacy advocates and security advocates. Following last week’s update, here’s yet more from the world of security.
This is the fourth installment of our new infomanager: Cybersecurity
* Security expert says Syria hackers tried to access an Israeli city water system
* Why Iran May Pose A Greater Cybersecurity Risk Than China
* ANALYSIS: Bets overlap in cybersecurity gold rush
* Iranian Cyber-Attackers Target US Energy Companies
* Businesses must protect against cyber crime
* Four-star general in eye of US cyber storm
* FTC Fires Back In Cybersecurity Case
* Five Real Computer Security Disasters
* NZ mobile devices largely at risk
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/cyber-security-2/
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07 Themes Back on the Mac
Interacto Labs Inc. has announced Flavours 1.0.8, a Mac application to change the OS X appearance.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/themes-back-on-the-mac/
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08 Easy Way to Resize Photos For E-mail or Web: Image Resizer Deluxe
Image Resizer Deluxe – Easy Way To Resize Photos For E-mail or Web, MADE IN AMERICA. Lifeware Solutions has rolled out a major update to Image Resizer Deluxe 1.1 for Mac. The application provides powerful tools to quickly resize and rename large numbers of photos to reduce their size, and make them ready to be sent over email or posted on the Web.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/resize_photos/
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09 New Peterson Mobile App For Budget-Conscious Nature Lovers
New Peterson Mobile App For Budget-Conscious Nature Lovers, MADE IN AMERICA. For nature lovers on a budget, Peterson Birds Pocket Edition 1.0 packs in a lot of detail for such a small price. Based on the best-selling book, Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, the app features Roger Tory Peterson’s breathtakingly beautiful illustrations, along with maps, species details, and songs. Information on over 800 species of North American birds is included in the app, core content that is identical to that of the app’s big brother, the award-winning Peterson Birds of North America.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/birds_pocket_guide/
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10 Blocks Rock! App Based on Student Invention Now Available for iOS
Blocks Rock! App Based on Student Invention Now Available for iOS, MADE IN AMERICA. Inspired and brought to life from a table-top game, the innovative Blocks Rock! app combines the educational, competitive, and colorful qualities of the table-top game into a contemporary medium.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/06/blocks_rock/
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11 Supercomputer Watson to be Customer Service Rep
IBM’s famed supercomputer first made waves when the company introduced it as a computer specifically made to answer Jeopardy! questions. Since then, Watson’s development has expanded, and in 2011 it competed against former Jeopardy! winners Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter to take home a $1 million prize.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/supercomputer/
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12 Quotes: Benjamin Franklin
Preparation: For the want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for the want of a shoe, the horse was lost; and for the want of a horse, the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy; all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.
If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
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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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