by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Amazing Google+ and Picasa Photo Experience for iOS 7 With Web Albums 4.0
02 Keep Calm and Carry On While you create funny posters for Instagram
03 Fingertip Maestro App allows anyone to create beautiful music instantly
04 InstaPDF: Scanner & Document Management
05 New Features in iOS 7.1
06 AppleScript & Automator in OS X Mavericks
07 Five Secrets of Public Speaking
08 Insights Data Mining for Mac OS X
09 Crowdsourcing is Inevitable: Crowdsourcing will change your life
10 Quotes about Giving
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01 Amazing Google+ and Picasa Photo Experience for iOS 7 With Web Albums 4.0
The photo app development team at Pixite has rolled out Web Albums 4.0 for iPhone and Web Albums HD 4.0 for iPad. This is probably one of the best Google+ and Picasa Web Albums photo viewing apps you can get. As the highest-rated paid Picasa Web Albums/Google+ app, Web Albums has been setting the standard for cloud-based photo viewing on the iPhone and iPad since 2009.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/web_albums/
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02 Keep Calm and Carry On While you create funny posters for Instagram
Keep Calm! Funny Poster Creator, the all-new app from Tiny Mobile, allows users to easily become a poster creator/designer, making and sharing hilarious, topical, irreverent and personal humor-laced creations.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/keep-calm/
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03 Fingertip Maestro App allows anyone to create beautiful music instantly
Fingertip Maestro is a revolutionary music-making app for people of all ages and abilities. It enables those with no musical training to instantly play convincingly, with the feeling and texture of a professional musician. We took the frustration out of the process; just tap and slide your fingers across an intuitive color-coded grid to create songs and melodies instantly.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/fingertip-maestro/
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04 InstaPDF: Scanner & Document Management
mackh ag has announced InstaPDF 3 for iOS and Mac. Access and scan your documents from everywhere. That’s the way it should be and InstaPDF makes it a reality. So when you create a PDF, you don’t have to e-mail it over and over to store it on multiple devices. Our sync technology takes care of everything for you. You can access your documents on the go via your iPhone, on the Web, or on our brand-new free Mac app. Just like that.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/instapdf-scannerw/
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05 New Features in iOS 7.1
On Wonder How To, there is a list of the new features in iOS 7.1, which (of course) is a minor update, but these do look useful.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/coolest-18-features-in-ios-7/
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06 AppleScript & Automator in OS X Mavericks
While it is a small percentage of Mac users who need or use the automation capabilities of the Mac, those who do need it really find it valuable. Now there are new features in OS X Mavericks for AppleScript and its useful aid, Automator.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/applescript-automator-in-os-x-mavericks/
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07 Five Secrets of Public Speaking
This article by Jessica Stillman on Inc.com talks about the secrets of public speaking from TED speakers.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/5-secrets-of-public-speaking/
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08 Insights Data Mining for Mac OS X
Marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of cybernetics pioneer Prof. Aleksey Ivakhnenko, KnowledgeMiner Software has announced a special 70% discount on its entry-level Insights Touch Edition, valid until November 30, 2013.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/insights-data-mining-for-mac-os-x/
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09 Crowdsourcing is Inevitable: Crowdsourcing will change your life
Siamak Farah, CEO of InfoStreet, makers of SkyDesktop, a free Cloud-based desktop, has sent this detailed and referenced article about crowdsourcing. It’s very thoughtful, and will stimulate many ideas – everyone needs to read this.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/crowdsourcing-5/
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10 Quotes about Giving
The best way to make your spouse and children feel secure is not with big deposits in bank accounts, but with little deposits of thoughtfulness and affection in the “love account”.
– Zig Ziglar
The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
– Rod McKuen
There are two kinds of people in the world: the Givers and the Takers. The difference between the two is that the Takers eat well, and the Givers sleep well.
– Joy Mills
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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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