by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Safenetting: Beware Travel Phishing
02 PCs Are Dead, Long Live the Tablet
03 Now you can open VSD files!
04 Documents for iPhone
05 Five Secret iOS Gestures
06 Clean Up Your Sandbox
07 Splash Colors FX 1.0 for Mac
08 The beginning of the universe, for beginners
09 Cleaning up those nasty MS Word files in InDesign
10 Print & ePublishing Conference comes to Austin
11 Mac Doctor: Speed, fun and the resurrection of HyperCard
12 Time to ReThink Network Security
13 Quote: Curiosity
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01 Safenetting: Beware Travel Phishing
It’s an epidemic. As the travel seasons ramp up, so does the cybercrime industry looking for easy targets.
This week Safenetting looks at travel phishing:
* Travel Spam — beware using email for transactions
* PC Mag just catching on… Security Watch
* Australian tourists stranded by phishing scam
* Beware of Phishing “Vacation Rental” Sites
* 10 Tricky Travel Scams (and How to Beat Them)
* Buyer beware: 10 common travel scams
* World’s Worst Travel Scams
* Review what you already know… memorize it and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/travel-phishing/
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02 PCs Are Dead, Long Live the Tablet
Future of Technology Mobiles, Tablets… Phablets — We’re getting more and more mobile. But what does that mean for IT professionals? Or for businesses? And what comes after the Phablet?
This week in your Global Roundup, we’re looking at the future of the tablet for business.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/idg_tablets/
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03 Now you can open VSD files!
Nektony has announced the release of VSD Viewer for Mac OS. VSD Viewer allows users to open vsd files created with Visio 2000 — 2010. It supports vsd format — a file extension for a vector graphics format developed and owned by MS Visio.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/vsd/
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04 Documents for iPhone
Readdle has announced the availability of Documents for the iPhone. Documents claims to become the default document viewer and media player on every iOS device. It allows people to view documents, watch video and listen to music, and store files locally on the iPhone and iPad.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/documents-for-iphone/
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05 Five Secret iOS Gestures
This article by Rob LeFebvre on Cult of Mac will be of use to many beginners to iOS.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/five-secret-ios-gestures/
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06 Clean Up Your Sandbox
Boinx Software Ltd. has introduced SandboxCleaner 1.0 for Mac OS X. No one likes a dirty sandbox, and no one likes when their Mac crashes. Solve both of these problems with Boinx Software’s brand new SandboxCleaner, a new utility app that will leave Macs nationwide running smooth as ever.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/clean-up-your-sandbox/
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07 Splash Colors FX 1.0 for Mac
Splash Colors FX 1.0 for Mac OS X, the application, which turns your photos into black and white ones and then allows you to breathe a new life into them by revealing the original colors of certain objects. So you can highlight the most important parts of your photos and give them new, electrifying look. Enhanced photos can be used for sharing with your family or friends, personal photo albums, various projects and a lot more.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/splash-colors/
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08 The beginning of the universe, for beginners
Tom Whyntie brings us a totally enjoyable lesson on how the universe began — and how is it expanding? This CERN physicist shows how cosmologists and particle physicists explore these questions by replicating the heat, energy, and activity of the first few seconds of our universe, from right after the Big Bang. View full lesson:
http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-beginning-of-the-universe-for-beginners-tom-whyntie
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09 Cleaning up those nasty MS Word files in InDesign
If you were around in the last millineum at the dawn of desktop publishing, you’ll remember Anne-Marie Concepcion, the celebrated DTP/Apple/Adobe pundit known as “HerGeekness”… she knows you’ve been entrapped by Word so she shares this cleverly hidden InDesign trick — to save you a ton of time!
http://www.graphic-design.com/indesign_tricks
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10 Print & ePublishing Conference comes to Austin
April 28 – May 1– PEPCON brings together the world‘s top InDesign and print and digital publishing experts for four days of workshops, seminars, and fun networking events, including IGNITE InDesign (where the attendees take the stage!). Come to PEPCON to get up to speed with all those acronyms: EPUB, DPS, PDFs for print and interactive, and — yes — free scripts and plug-ins.
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11 Mac Doctor: Speed, fun and the resurrection of HyperCard
This week, “The Mac Doctor” writes:
Free Game: Click on the “Install Game” button… may cause epileptic seizures.
http://www.desura.com/games/hyperspace-pinball
Beefy iMac:
I put a 3TB HD in place of the stock 1TB. This machine is smoking now. Total cost with the tool kit and suction cups about $360.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/internal_storage/SSD/Mercury_Electra_3G_Solid_State
Note that some enclosures and dongles don’t work with drives over 2TB. My USB dongle sees the 3TB as 801GB. All the old bottlenecks have simply disappeared.
http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/SSD/OWC/
With Adobe, etc., installed I have 58GB free. Of course. With some models you can remove the optical drive and put an SSD in its place so that you have two drives:
http://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/DDAMBS0GB/
Wed, 10 Apr 2013: Free Livecode 6.0 available now…
http://www.runrev.com/
For old HC users, there are a number things you may have to change to import your HyperCard stacks into LiveCode. There is an excellent, detailed conversion guide here:
http://www.hyperactivesw.com/mctutorial/rrtutorialtoc.html
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12 Time to ReThink Network Security
On August 15, 2012, Saudi Arabia’s national oil and gas company, Aramco, suffered a debilitating cyberattack. More than 30,000 computers were rendered inoperable by the Shamoon virus. US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described this virus as the most destructive weapon ever used against the business sector. Network security is a growing problem in the IT industry today.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/04/network-security/
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13 Quote: Curiosity
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Curiosity has its own reasons for existing.
One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of
eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality.
It is enough if one tries to comprehend a little of
this mystery every day.
Never lose a holy curiosity.
–Edmund Burke
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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 the 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 user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the Web.
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