by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Facebook MUGs
02 Safenetting: Security ALERT: American Express Identity Theft
03 Strange Macintosh “Fixes”
04 IDG: Artificial Intelligence: Big Data, Robots and the Future
05 iPIN – Password Safe is available for iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows
06 Random House Digital Releases Happy Camping
07 Espresso Ray 3D 1.1 – New 3D Viewer and Surface Analysis Tool for OS X
08 Ten Tips to Speed Up Mavericks
09 Flixel Cinemagraph Pro Earns Featured Status on Mac App Store
10 EverWeb 1.3
11 GlucoAide
12 Quotes: Making mistakes
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01 Facebook MUGs
Of course, UGNN has had a presence on Facebook for some time now. You can connect with us at:
UG Infomanager:
* https://www.facebook.com/groups/UGNet/
and
UG Netnews:
* https://www.facebook.com/ug.netnews
There are lots of others… here’s a quick list:
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/facebook-mugs/
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02 Safenetting: Security ALERT: American Express Identity Theft
As of 3:00 am, Thursday, March 11, the Safenetting spam traps have been hit with several convincing phishing attacks surrounding American Express, Jet blue Airlines and Facebook. We had more on the 12, 13, and today, 14! The worst of these, by far, is the American Express phish which we’ll show here.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/american_express_phishing/
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03 Strange Macintosh “Fixes”
In the early 1990’s, we had a “Mac Guru” in our Dallas user group who came to the meeting and told us how he cleaned his keyboard by putting it in the dishwasher.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/american_express_phishing/
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04 IDG: Artificial Intelligence: Big Data, Robots and the Future
The idea of Artificial Intelligence has been around since the Ancient Greeks – Pygmalion’s ivory statue was given life by Aphrodite, and Europa was protected by Zeus’ bronze man, Talos – but the term itself wasn’t actually coined until 1955. In the 60 years since John McCarthy first defined the term, we’ve gone from theory to reality, with AI being used in industries around the world. So what’s next? This week we look at whether 2014 is “the year” for AI, the potential AI has in Big Data, and how AI and robotics are transforming industry.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/idg-artificial-intelligence/
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05 iPIN – Password Safe is available for iPhone, Android, Mac, and Windows
iPIN is the mobile safe for all important passwords and PINs of everyday life. Confidential data is encrypted, so no unauthorized person is able to take a glimpse at it. The program is already available for iOS, MacOS, and Windows. Now it is also being offered for Android smartphones and tablets. To celebrate the good news, all four versions are presented for a short period of time at half price.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/ipin_password_safe/
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06 Random House Digital Releases Happy Camping
Happy Camping is a utility app for your next outdoor adventure – featuring six useful tools to help plan and enjoy your time outside. Outdoor enthusiasts can download it today.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/happy_camping/
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07 Espresso Ray 3D 1.1 – New 3D Viewer and Surface Analysis Tool for OS X
ER3D Group has released Espresso Ray 3D 1.1, their new 3D viewer and surface generation analysis tool for OS X. Designed to work with DICOM images and other medical imaging formats (namely nifti-1), Espresso Ray 3D supports 3D volumetric data, in addition to grayscale and color DICOM image volumes. Essentially, Espresso Ray 3D allows users to complete a variety of common and complex medical imaging tasks, including the ability to quickly view, image, surface, and analyze data from MRI and CT.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/espresso_ray_3d/
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08 Ten Tips to Speed Up Mavericks
This article at Apple Gazette is about how to speed up OS X Mavericks.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/10-tips-to-speed-up-mavericks/
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09 Flixel Cinemagraph Pro Earns Featured Status on Mac App Store
Less than two weeks since Flixel Photos Inc. launched Cinemagraph Pro for Mac 1.0.1, the living photo creation software has achieved featured status on the Mac App Store where it’s reached first in the photography category in over 50 countries – including US, UK, Canada, Japan, Germany, France, and China. The application is also first overall in 20 countries.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/flixel_cinemagraph_pro/
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10 EverWeb 1.3
RAGE Software has announced an update to EverWeb, the Web sitesite builder for OS X that builds on the ease of use of Apple’s discontinued iWeb software. EverWeb brings the familiar iWeb interface with new, modern features such as mobile Web sites, drop-down menus, built-in search engine optimization, e-commerce stores, and much more.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/everweb-1-3/
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11 GlucoAide
GlucoAide is an application built especially for Macintosh users with diabetics. With GlucoAide, you can track your meter readings in either mmol/L or mg/dL. Data entry has been designed to be quick and easy. Because GlucoAide is not restricted to any proprietary brand of meter, it can be used regardless of the type of meter you have.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/glucoaide/
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12 Quotes: Making mistakes
After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
– Sophia Loren
Know when to tune out. If you listen to too much advice, you may wind up making other people’s mistakes.
– Ann Landers
If I ran a school, I’d give the average grade to the ones who gave me all the right answers, for being good parrots. I’d give the top grades to those who made a lot of mistakes and told me about them, and then told me what they learned from them.
– R. Buckminster Fuller
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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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