by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 iPhone InfoManager: May
02 CISPA: Cybersecurity law pros and cons #3
03 Games for Older Kids
04 All-Time Top Apps
05 New Calculator Promises to Calculate Different
06 AnyMoney HD
07 Hackers Aim Beyond LivingSocial Accounts
08 What’s the next big thing?
09 Cocktail 6.4
10 80 Most Useful Mac Tools and Utilities
11 Application Development Server For iOS
12 Supporting American Developers?
13 Quotes: for Mother’s Day
——————————————————————-
01 iPhone InfoManager: May
Okay, are you ready for iPhone SIX? How about a bendable, flexible iPhone? Security leaks? The end of Siri? The iPhone world goes round and around… and you’re there:
* Hacker Jailbreaks Google Glass, finds Security Problems
* People Are Complaining That Google’s New Search App Is Killing Their iPhone
* Wolverton: Google Now offers iPhone users another, if imperfect, choice
* The Man Behind Facebook’s Secret Plan To Build An iPhone-Killer
* iPhone 6 or iWatch could share ingenious battery design
* Are Google apps besting the iPhone’s default software?
* Daily Brick Custom LEGO iPad and iPhone Docks
* Apple releases iOS 6.1.4 update for iPhone 5
* Make your old iPhone run like new
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/iphone-4/
——————————————————————-
02 CISPA: Cybersecurity law pros and cons #3
This is the third installment of our new infomanager: “Cybersecurity”
* The U.S. Outsources Cybersecurity & Defense To Contractors That Keep Getting Hacked
* OAS and Trend Micro Report Examines Cybersecurity Trends in the Americas
* Australian Defence White Paper emphasizes need for cybersecurity
* Can Researchers Influence Government’s Cybersecurity Agenda?
* Asia’s schools neglecting cybersecurity certification
* Welcome to USA TODAY’s cybersecurity, privacy blog
* Governor O’Malley signs cybersecurity tax credit
* When a defense contractor gets hacked repeatedly
* Cybersecurity and Internet Governance
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/cispa_3/
——————————————————————-
03 Games for Older Kids
Summer’s coming… travel time, car time, beach time, butt time… get your games on!!!!
* Crime & Puzzlement 2: 24 more Solve-Them-Yourself Picture Mysteries
* Razed: A unique indie puzzle game gets featured in 36 countries
* Tipping Point adventure game series finds new life on iPad
* Kinetic Defender: AirScreen Motion Tracking for iOS
* Cirkits: Toy Robot Racing
* Toy Defense is BACK
…and more!
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/older_kids_kids/
——————————————————————-
04 All-Time Top Apps
According to MacStories.net, Apple has released a list of its All-Time Best Apps. This one is done as part of the campaign to recognize the 50 Billionth download from the app store. In this case, “Best” means most sold.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/all-time-top-apps/
——————————————————————-
05 New Calculator Promises to Calculate Different
Independent developer Gerald Aquila has introduced Inseries, a completely new approach to iPhone calculators that allows you to enter calculations more naturally and to clearly view your previous results. Award-winning designer Wolfgang Bartelme created the clear and functional design of the app, combining aspects of financial and scientific calculators with a spreadsheet-inspired way of entering calculations.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/new-calculator-promises-to-calculate-different/
——————————————————————-
06 AnyMoney HD
The Gamma Project has released AnyMoney HD 1.0, their all-in-one multi-currency converter and calculator for the iPad. Perfect for managing expenses while traveling the world, AnyMoney HD offers the easiest way to manage foreign currency conversions. The app can quickly sum up amounts given in any of 155 different world currencies, and converts the total into a currency of your choice.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/anymoney-hd/
——————————————————————-
07 Hackers Aim Beyond LivingSocial Accounts
Internet security breaches seem to be ever-present as the abilities of hackers continue to increase, and last week the trouble continued. The online social deals site LivingSocial was hit by a cyber attack last Friday, compromising around 50 million customers’ secure data. Tech Expert Karl Volkman of Chicago’s SRV Network, Inc. weighs in on password security and what users can do to ensure their online identities remain untouched.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/hackers/
——————————————————————-
08 What’s the next big thing?
iPad in Business Everyone wants to know what the next big thing is, whether it’s to cash in, be ahead of the game, or just because you’re interested. So this week we bring you the next Amazon, the next cyber threat, and the next emerging market…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/next-big-thing/
——————————————————————-
09 Cocktail 6.4
Maintain has announced the release and immediate availability of Cocktail 6.4 (Mountain Lion Edition), the latest maintenance update of Cocktail for users running OS X Mountain Lion 10.8.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/cocktail-6-4/
——————————————————————-
10 80 Most Useful Mac Tools and Utilities
This is another one of those lists I like so much. In this case, 80 utilities for Mac. Check it out.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/80-most-useful-mac-tools-and-utilities/
——————————————————————-
11 Application Development Server For iOS
Kallergis Consulting Limited has introduced Server 1.0 for iOS. The Server is an application that turns your iOS device into a fully-featured wirelessly accessible data modelling and multi-user access platform for you to use to build systems with that are centered around other devices using your device as their server. It breathes new life into anything that runs iO5 or better.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/05/application-development-server-for-ios/
——————————————————————-
12 Supporting American Developers?
Out of 835 new products in the database over the last two weeks, only 462 are made in America.
——————————————————————-
13 Quotes: for Mothers’ Day:
Did you ever meet a mother who’s complained that her
child phoned her too often? Me neither.
– Maureen Lipman
The angels… singing unto one another,
Can find among their burning terms of love,
None so devotional as that of “mother”
– Edgar Allen Poe (To My Mother)
God could not be everywhere, so He made mothers.
– Jewish Proverb
——————————————————————-
…and have a great week!
Remember, I invite all user groups to use this column in full or in pieces in your newsletter. Or add a link to their Web sites.
Pau
* Participate: http://www.ugnn.com/post-your-article/
* UGN Facebook Group: http://goo.gl/ksAm (come join!)
* Follow and Be Followed: http://twitter.com/UGNnet
* Subscribe: http://goo.gl/aKcC
———————————————-
** 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 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.
———————————————-
© 2013, All Rights Reserved. Affiliate User Groups are granted permission to reprint the InfoManager column or excerpts thereof so long as proper credit is given, and a clearly stated web URL link to: http://www.UGNN.com/.
Thanks for reading! We’ll leave the modem on for ya!
