InfoManager for Monday, May 27, 2013

by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker

What’s Here:
01 Technology & Politics: From Web to Warfare
02 iPad InfoManager: Here comes summer and new iPads
03 Japanese Art Created Using MS Excel
04 How to create a RAM disk in OS X
05 Migrating from Kindle to iBooks
06 Will Vittle for the iPad Finally Kill the Need for Text?
07 Photographer takes iPad users on a free motorcycle ride through Mexico
08 iLuv Drawing Vehicles HD for iPad: Learn Secrets of Drawing Step-by-Step
09 Macware, Inc., Offers 50% off Holiday Weekend Sale
10 Disk Order 3.2.4
11 Quotes: Summer books and reading

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01 Technology & Politics: From Web to Warfare

iPad in Business – Technology has made a number of changes to the way we live and work, but what affect has it had on politics? And can technology get political? This week, we look at the relationship between politics and tech in Africa, investigate the way that technology has affected global politics, and look at the darker side of tech and politics with a research paper on cyber warfare.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/tech_politics/

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02 iPad InfoManager: Here comes summer and new iPads

The iPad InfoManager digs up the most interesting or entertaining news about iPads… New iPads on the horizon, new apps, and a bunch of wannabes that just won’t go away… these are among this week’s best tidbits –
* Apple cuts iPad 4 refurb price, signals iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 arrival
* Apple Drops Prices On Refurbished iPad Mini, iPad 4 Tablets
* KGI Predicts Gloomy Calendar Q2 Results for Apple’s iPad
* Microsoft attacks Apple iPad and Siri in new adverts
* iPad 4 vs Google Nexus 10: The Full-Size Tablet Kings
* Will Apple Share Release Date for iPad 5 at WWDC?
* Apple iPad mini 2 and iPad 5 release date
* Is Apple losing its innovation magic?
* The ugly truth: Apple vs. PC design
…and more

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/ipad_1305-27/

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03 Japanese Art Created Using MS Excel

This article talks about unbelievable works of art. These pieces are created using Microsoft’s Excel spreadsheet package.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/japanese-art/

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04 How to create a RAM disk in OS X

This article in TekRevue talks about setting up a RAM disk for your use in OS X.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/ram-disk/

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05 Migrating from Kindle to iBooks

Zachary West, an iOS and Mac developer, has posted this article on his blog zacwe.st. Zachary says he has worked on Adium and that he created Prowl. So he does know a lot about the development process.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/kindle-to-ibooks/

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06 Will Vittle for the iPad Finally Kill the Need for Text?

Despite its being a sub-optimal experience, iPad users still rely on its virtual keyboard for most of their daily communications. A new app named Vittle from Qrayon, launching worldwide today, seeks to change that. Vittle lets users record short videos using their photos, handwriting, and voice that can be securely shared, or posted online for the whole world.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/vittle-2/

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07 Photographer takes iPad users on a free motorcycle ride through Mexico

When the photographer left Los Angeles a few years ago for a five-month expedition to Latin America, little did he know that there was no going back. In the following years, the epic adventure now nicknamed “LA2BA” would cover 42,000 miles through 15 countries, providing a vast supply of exceptional photographic opportunities and a rare chance to meet the contrasting cultures of an entire continent.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/photograping_mexico/

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08 iLuv Drawing Vehicles HD for iPad: Learn Secrets of Drawing Step-by-Step

iLuv Drawing Vehicles for iPad is a clever app which shows kids step-by-step how to draw 20 different vehicles. Unlike most similar apps, it provides a full complement of flexible, accurate, touch-sensitive tools for young artists, including: pencils, crayons, pattern brushes, paint fills, erasers, backgrounds, stickers, undos, layering, scaling, flipping, rotating, and zooming. Kids can follow spoken directions and trace pictures on the iPad, or they can draw on paper. One of the best art education apps available for iPad, kids learn about drawing while they learn the names of the parts of each vehicle they depict.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/iluv-drawing/

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09 Macware, Inc., Offers 50% Off Holiday Weekend Sale

Macware, a leading developer and publisher of Macintosh software, is kicking off the holiday weekend with a sale through their Web site. Save on your favorite Macware software titles with this special, limited time offer. Now until May 27th, you can take 50% off your entire Macware purchase** through the Macware Web site.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/macware-inc-offers-50-off-holiday-weekend-sale/

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10 Disk Order 3.2.4

LikeMac Group has updated Disk Order, its double-pane (commander-like) file manager for Mac OS X, to v3.2.4. This release adds some nice features and improves Mountain Lion support.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/disk-order-3-2-4/

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11 Quotes: Summer books and reading

I find television very educating.
Every time somebody turns on the set,
I go into the other room and read a book.
–Groucho Marx

Books are the shoes with which we tread the
footsteps of great minds.
–Franz Kafka

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if
they had really happened.
–Ernest Hemingway

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…and have a great week!

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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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