by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Film Editor Richard Marks A.C.E. to appear at LACPUG March 26
02 UGNN Facebook Update: Springtime for Facebook, lawsuits, faces and selfies
03 Boom 808 for iOS – Banging 808 Drum Machine
04 Now you can access topo maps from your iOS device
05 Furnish helps shoppers to see furniture in their homes before they buy
06 PartyLine for iOS – Meet New Friends And Voice Chat Instantly
07 Print Window 5.0
08 PopChar X 6.5
09 iBeacons Aren’t Just for Retail
10 Virtual TimeClock 14
11 New apps from developers outside the U.S.
12 Mac Day LA? Church of Mac? Church of Apple?
13 Quotes: Ethics and Morality
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Apologies for this edition delay. Being on the SpamCop mail makes it difficult. About once a year a hacker gets through or a denial of service attack hits. This time we were down for nearly 24 hours.
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01 Film Editor Richard Marks A.C.E. to appear at LACPUG March 26
The Los Angeles Creative Pro User Group (lacpug) have announced that legendary film editor Richard Marks A.C.E. will appear at lacpug, Wednesday March 26, 2014 at the Gallery Theatre, Barnsdall Art Park in Hollywood, CA. beginning at 6:45PM.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/richard_marks_lacpug/
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02 UGNN Facebook Update: Springtime for Facebook, law suits, faces and selfies
Facebook news and reviews – good and bad reports – security woes increase while Facebook adds yet more changes; selfies taking over the world, and the Brazillians are suing – of course, if the Facebook Infomanager isn’t saying it, but you’re seeing it, let us know!
* Facebook Disputes Claims That They Were Aware Of NSA Data Collection Outside Of FISA Orders
* Facebook unveils Hack, a faster programming language to power the social network
* Facebook, Twitter, Google+ Under One Roof: Everypost Connects Social Media
* Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to attend White House meeting with tech CEOs
* Facebook, SpaceX CEOs Invest in Artificial Intelligence Company
* Facebook hit with $33m “Sponsored Stories” lawsuit in Brazil
* Facebook Reveals Photos of Frank Gehry-Designed Campus
* Facebook and Twitter Selfies Are Raising Money
* Facebook goes high-tech with DeepFace
…and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/facebook_update_1403-24/
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03 Boom 808 for iOS – Banging 808 Drum Machine
If you drum, you’ll love Boom 808, a high-fidelity virtual analog drum machine app for iPad devices. Boom 808 is a powerful sound design tool that allows you to easily integrate one of the most popular drum machines of the 80s into the modern mobile producers workflow.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/boom-808/
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04 Now you can access topo maps from your iOS device
Did you ever wish you had topo maps along with Google? Now, Gogal Publishing’s new GPS Topo USA is a new iPhone navigation app designed specifically for outdoor enthusiasts. GPS Topo USA guides users to any wilderness destination then brings them safely back home again.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/gobo_topo/
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05 Furnish helps shoppers to see furniture in their homes before they buy
Furnish (that’s the real name of the app) has an app that enables iPad consumers to now decorate an entire room using multiple furniture from a variety of retailers. Using markerless augmented reality, the new update is focused on providing a simple yet fun experience in decorating your interior without the need to print a marker.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/furnish/
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06 PartyLine for iOS – Meet New Friends And Voice Chat Instantly
PartyLine may have invented a new voice communications iOS app that may change the world. This fun app allows users to engage in voice chats with random men and women they meet for the first time, with an option to narrow the search by implementing gender and age filters. As of February 1st, 2014, the app is available in new and improved version 2.1 that allows users to upload profile pictures and introduces several other exciting features.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/partyline/
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07 Print Window 5.0
Print Window 5.0 for OS X is a simple but powerful window printing utility. Print Window works seamlessly with the Mac OS X Finder, allowing users to generate and print a file listing of folders using several different methods including a simple key command, the Status menu, the Dock menu, or drag and drop.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/print-window-5-0/
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08 PopChar X 6.5
Ergonis Software has announced PopChar X 6.5, a new release of the company’s award-winning tool for efficiently exploring fonts as well as finding and inserting special characters. PopChar X 6.5 comes with a new custom insertion technique, which leads to faster character insertion for many applications.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/popchar-x-6-5/
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09 iBeacons Aren’t Just for Retail
This article on TechCrunch talks about non-retail uses of iBeacon.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/ibeacons-arent-just-for-retail/
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10 Virtual TimeClock 14
Managing employee time and attendance is flexible with the new Virtual TimeClock 14 now available Redcort Software Inc. Virtual TimeClock 14 provides a streamlined and modernized user experience that makes using Virtual TimeClock easier than ever. Powerful new administrative features facilitate monitoring time worked and editing employee timecards.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/03/virtual-timeclock-14/
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11 New apps from developers outside the U.S.
About 45% of this week’s news and press stream items came from outside the U.S. We follow new stories of new or updated products for Mac or iOS devices like iPad and iPhone for InfoManager stories and references.
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12 Mac Day LA? Church of Mac? Church of Apple?
It’s amazing what you find when you are cleaning up old links in the Web site. Both Web sites have content leading back to the early 1990s. So far, 99% of the links have gone dead, or been hijacked by porn sites or affiliate parked sites. On this day in 2008, we were promoting Mac Day in LA. The Web site is gone without a trace. Also in this week of 2008 we wrote about The Church of Mac which promised to be the ultimate Mac source. It’s gone, too. But in the process of cleaning up dead links in the UGNN site, we also ran across The Church of the Mac at Second Life, AND, The Church of Apple, another WordPress blog claiming to be the “one” source for Apple news, started by Joe Giuliani. Except the last post seems to be January 26th… they do have a Facebook page… the last post was September 2013.
https://www.facebook.com/Thechurchofapple
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13 Quotes: Ethics and Morality
The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.
– Albert Einstein
The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm but because of those who look at it without doing anything.
– Albert Einstein
The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. The more weapons you have, the less secure people will be.
– Tao Te Ching (trans)
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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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