by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 How Apple Makes the Mac Pro
02 iOS7 fixes from Grovo
03 iOS7 fixes #1: Seven Problems You Can Solve in 60 Seconds
04 iOS7 fixes #2: Find the App you need right away
05 Jettison 1.3
06 Apowersoft’s Audio Recorder
07 EarthDesk Real-Time Map Released for iOS
08 Psykosoft releases Psykopaint as standalone Mac App
09 Optical Disc Burning solution for new Mac Pro – from NuMac
10 Theodolite AR Nav App Gets Version 4.0 Remake for iOS 7
11 Perceptive Automation and FortrezZ form Strategic Partnership
12 Wired on the iPad Intro
13 Quotes: What would Steve say?
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FIRST, SOME BUSINESS:
1) A UGNN reader reported a broken link to the article:
>> 06 Mavericks How-To: Integrating Maps Into Your Workflow
Try this:
http://www.maclife.com/article/howtos/mavericks_howto_integrating_maps_your_workflow
2) Long time friend and UG pundit Del Missier wrote:
> Fred & Lynn, I must thank you again for your weekly posts as they are full of good and
> current info! I send everyone in my 2 UG’s your blips weekly, and have fwd’d
> for the past 13+ years. Yours are the best I have found for good stuff and I really
> appreciate your devotion and attention to important topics.
> Just FYI
> Del
> Apple Ambassador, V.P.
> AUGAB alum
> Sierra Nevada Apple User Group
> http://www.snag.org/
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
3) Last SAD NOTE:
Someone “redacted@aol.com”, who was a subscriber on AOL, decided to report the InfoManager as SPAM. As ridiculous as that may seem, it worked. A number of AOL users have written to ask why they no longer get InfoManager since mid October. Well, that jerk on AOL is why.
Please, could ONE user on AOL send me a little note to say you got this, I would certainly appreciate it.
Thanks,
Fred
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01 How Apple Makes the Mac Pro
Apple has announced that the new Mac Pro will ship in the month of December. On the Web site Atomic Delights, Greg Koenig has posted an article with the above title.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/how-apple-makes-the-mac-pro/
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02 iOS7 fixes from Grovo
This new series for UGNN is brought to us by Grovo Training, and more coming each and every week!
Here are videos #1 and #2 …
03 iOS7 fixes #1: Seven Problems You Can Solve in 60 Seconds
The complaints against iOS 7 began flying around ever since the release of the new Apple operating system a few weeks ago. Issues people raised ran the gamut from frustration with what they saw as a shortened battery life for their iPhone to the security risks of the lock screen bypass. Fortunately, there are a few fairly simple fixes for the complaints logged against iOS 7, many of which you can learn how to do in 60 seconds.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/ios-7_problems_1/
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04 iOS7 fixes #2: Find the App you need right away
The complaints against iOS 7 began flying around ever since the release of the new Apple operating system a few weeks ago. Yesterday we kicked off our top 10 simple fixes for the complaints logged against iOS 7 series. Each issue we will be giving you a new way to fix an issue with iOS7 to help you love your iPhone again.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/find_the_app/
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05 Jettison 1.3
St. Clair Software has announced the immediate release of Jettison 1.3 for Mac OS X. This update improves support for D cards, helps diagnose problems when OS X won’t eject a drive, improves reliability in handling all types of media, and adds support for Retina displays.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/jettison-1-3/
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06 Apowersoft’s Audio Recorder
Audio Recorder is a sophisticated new recorder software especially designed for Mac OS users. This tool grants anyone the ability to effortlessly record audio from any external or internal audio source. It covers streaming audio, including the user’s computer media sound, microphone sound and more. Grab an audio copy of whatever you want from YouTube, Skype, iTunes, Spotify, QuickTime player, and many other channels.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/apowersofts-audio-recorder/
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07 EarthDesk Real-Time Map Released for iOS
Xeric Design has merged the beauty of EarthDesk and the utility of Time Palette into a single iOS app. Like EarthDesk for the desktop, EarthDesk for iOS displays a stunning, real-time image of the Earth from space, showing daytime, nighttime, city lights, and near real-time cloud images that download from satellites. The app also displays clocks showing the current local time for locations around the world and contains an almanac that calculates global geographical and astronomical data.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/earthdesk/
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08 Psykosoft releases Psykopaint as standalone Mac App
Psykopaint (the most popular painting app on the Chrome Web store), is a painting application with a twist that allows you to paint while the colors are selected automatically based on a photo. Unlike other software based on filters, it is your own personality expressed in a painting. Until now, the app was accessible exclusively online, and now as a fully packaged app for Mac.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/psykopaint-2/
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09 Optical Disc Burning solution for new Mac Pro – from NuMac
NMBDR6x, is a single cable solution for burning optical discs with Apple’s soon-to-be-released Mac Pro. The round, low-profile design of the NMBDR6x allows the device to sit right beneath the Mac Pro, keeping clutter to a minimum.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/optical-disc-burning/
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10 Theodolite AR Nav App Gets Version 4.0 Remake for iOS 7
Theodolite is a popular augmented reality navigation app for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and iPad mini. Theodolite overlays real-time information about position, altitude, bearing, range, and horizontal/vertical inclination on a live camera image, turning the device into a sophisticated electronic viewfinder with heads-up display (HUD).
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/theodolite/
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11 Perceptive Automation and FortrezZ form Strategic Partnership
Perceptive Automation, developer of Indigo, announced they have signed a strategic agreement with FortrezZ, a design, engineering, and manufacturing company providing wireless automation and security products, to add support for the complete line of FortrezZ products in Indigo.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/10/perceptive_automation/
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12 Wired on the iPad Intro
This opinion piece on Wired is actually titled “How Steve Jobs Made the iPad Succeed When All Other Tables Failed” is by Fred Vogelstein.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/11/wired-on-the-ipad-intro/
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13 Quotes: What would Steve say?
You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations
– Steve Jobs
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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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