After we started bouncing for posts over 17K, we trimmed the InfoManager back to less than 17K (a couple of years ago).
Now, InfoManager bounced because it was over 12K.
So, here’s a verion under 12K that hopefully will not bounce:
by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Cyber safety vs. Cyber crime: Understanding the battle-lines
02 Toughturtle Develops A Cure For Road Trip Boredom With A New Bingo App
03 Savesm App lets you submit your Best Offer for any product or service
04 Counting Together released for iPhone and iPad
05 Google privacy ruling is just the thin end of a censorship wedge
06 Stream your photos directly to the audience in slideshow
07 Pen & Ink 3.0 – Beautiful Brushes in a Beautiful New Interface
08 Eleven Apps I Use Constantly
09 New Wonder Material?
10 After European Court Decision, Google Works on a Tool to Remove Links
11 Cut Me Out pro
12 Wispa – Buy Sell Find, Socially
13 Government not meeting cyber security expectations
14 QUOTES: The Internet
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We invite your participation. It’s a far-reaching battle front – one that will be lost without a consumer movement. User groups are the front-line defense and should be mobilized to act.
http://www.user-groups.net/contact.html
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02 Toughturtle Develops A Cure For Road Trip Boredom With A New Bingo App
Going on vacation? Hitting the road with the kids? Well then, you’ll need Roadtrip Bingo – the hit iOS app that helped people of all ages, especially kids, pass the time on road trips. The game now comes with nine premium game boards and a vibrant user interface. The gameplay possibilities are virtually endless and only limited to the player’s imagination.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/kids_travel_game/
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03 Savesm App lets you submit your Best Offer for any product or service
Savesm 1.0 [save-some] for iPhone enables retail customers to request a deal you want and save at any local business location. Why wait for a sale or promotion or holidays… or collecting coupons, when you can submit your best offer for any product or service? It works at retail stores, hotels, repair businesses, car dealerships, real estate for sale, and more as well as at local service providers, such as home service and repair companies, car repair shops, rental real estate services, and others.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/savesm/
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04 Counting Together released for iPhone and iPad
Counting Together, for the iPhone and iPad, is a groundbreaking “edu-tainment” app that helps children learn the critical skill of Subitzing – which means recognizing how many objects a person is looking at without actually counting them. The ability to subitize is fundamental, and underpins many aspects of a child’s early learning. See the video!
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/counting_together/
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05 Google privacy ruling is just the thin end of a censorship wedge
Sooner or later, every argument about regulation of the Internet comes down to the same question: is this the thin end of the wedge or not? We saw a dramatic illustration last week when the European court of justice handed down a judgment on a case involving a Spanish lawyer, one Mario Costeja Gonzelez, who objected that entering his name in Google’s search engine brought up embarrassing information about his past (that one of his properties had been the subject of a repossession).
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06 Stream your photos directly to the audience in slideshow
Indie developer Chris Paveglio has solved a lot of problems for anyone who wants to put on a show of photo images just taken, with little or no muss and fuss! Scanning Slideshow 1.0.1 for Mac OS X is designed to display a slideshow of images, and to update the folder contents/images in the folder live.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/pen-ink/
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07 Pen & Ink 3.0 – Beautiful Brushes in a Beautiful New Interface
Stepping Stone Mobile has unveiled Pen & Ink 3.0, a major update to their 5-star iPad painting app. With 74 brushes in 6 categories, Pen & Ink now offers the best and most diverse toolset on the App Store, including unique tools like Asian ink wash brushes, a bamboo pen, and a kneaded eraser. The app has been updated with a brand-new look and streamlined workflow, which is both simple to learn and easy to use.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/pen-ink/
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08 Eleven Apps I Use Constantly
Dan Pearce has written this article on his blog called “Single Dad Laughing”.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/11-apps-i-use-constantly/
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09 New Wonder Material?
This Business Insider article by Lisa Eadicicco has the full title of “Researchers Are Testing A ‘Wonder Material’ That Could Make Your Smartphone Better Than Ever”.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/new-wonder-material/
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10 After European Court Decision, Google Works on a Tool to Remove Links
Google will announce by the end of the month a mechanism for consumers to request that links to information about them be removed from the company’s search engine, a leading European regulator said on Thursday. It was one of the first signs that Google was working through how to operate after a court ruling said consumers could make such requests.
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11 Cut Me Out pro
Have you wondered how your friends swap their faces or attached animal face? Cut Me Out is a Photoshop-like app one can cut some parts of the image and paste it on other images. Easy to replace background of any photo.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/cut-me-out-pro/
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12 Wispa – Buy Sell Find, Socially
Looking for an apartment, roommate, car, pair of sneakers, specific gadget, or a phone? Wispa offers a unique, innovative technology that matches Social Network users according to their specific needs. The app allows users to browse through thousands of items that are usually buried deep inside their social networks. Search by category, proximity, price, and many other filter options. Find the things you love and start communicating with the seller directly using your preferred social network.
http://www.ugnn.com/2014/05/wispa-buy-sell-find-socially/
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13 Government not meeting cyber security expectations
Actions to change some of the National Security Agency’s surveillance practices after the leaks of classified documents by contractor Edward Snowden are falling short of what many private cyberexperts want. Top government experts told the Reuters Cybersecurity Summit this week they would be more transparent about spying activity. Nongovernment guests, however, said the administration wasn’t doing enough to advance Internet security.
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14 QUOTES: The Internet
A lot of people who have been trying to take this authority [Internet Oversight] away from the U.S. want to do it for the sole purpose of cracking down on Internet freedom and limiting it and having governments protect their backsides instead of empower their people.
– Bill Clinton, March, 2014
Critics voiced significant doubts about the fitness of ICANN to operate without U.S. oversight and beyond the bounds of U.S. law. This is a purely political bone that the U.S. is throwing, ICANN has made a lot of mistakes, and ICANN has not really been a good steward.
– Garth Bruen, a security fellow at the Digital Citizens Alliance
People could be walking around anywhere and pick up their e-mail.
– Steve Jobs in a 1983 speech.
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…and have a great week!
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Pau
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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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