by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Introducing Apple Pencil
02 Apple Introduces iPad Pro with 12.9-inch Retina Display
03 Introducing iPad Pro (Video)
04 Apple Introduces iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus
05 OCR Instantly 1.1
06 User Groups on Facebook September 12, 2015
07 Fews – News feed reader for the Mac
08 Apple InfoManager: iPad, iPhone, Pencils, iPad Pro, and more
09 Apple iPad Pro announced with Apple Pencil and a Smart Keyboard
10 Thoughts on the Rumored iPad pro
11 Quotes: Benchley, Holmes
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01 Introducing Apple Pencil
Precision digital hand drawing and writing has arrived. Apple Pencil is designed to look and feel like a familiar tool. Yet with its meticulously-engineered technology, working with the most advanced Multi-Touch display, it delivers an extraordinary new level of precision. Test Drive the Apple Pencil now!
http://www.ugnn.com/apple/iPad_Pro/introducing_Apple_Pencil.html
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02 Apple Introduces iPad Pro with 12.9-inch Retina Display
On September 9, 2015, Apple introduced the all-new iPad Pro, featuring a stunning 12.9-inch Retina display with 5.6 million pixels, the most ever in an iOS device, and groundbreaking performance with the new 64-bit A9X chip, rivaling most portable PCs. The new larger iPad Pro is thin and light and provides all-day battery life. There are more than 850,000 apps in the App Store designed specifically for iPad, and the new iPad Pro will enable a new generation of advanced apps for everything from productivity, design, illustration, engineering and medical, to education, gaming and entertainment.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/ipadpro/
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03 Introducing iPad Pro (Video)
iPad has always offered a uniquely immersive experience. Now, with its 12.9-inch Retina display, powerful A9X chip, and dynamic four speaker audio, iPad Pro lets you be more creative and more productive – at an entirely new scale. Try the iPad Pro NOW
http://www.ugnn.com/apple/iPad_Pro/introduction.html
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04 Apple Introduces iPhone 6s & iPhone 6s Plus
On September 9, 2015, Apple introduced iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, the most advanced iPhones ever, adding a powerful new dimension to iPhone’s revolutionary Multi-Touch interface. The new iPhones introduce 3D Touch, which senses force to enable intuitive new ways to access features and interact with content. iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus feature Retina HD displays made from the strongest glass on any smartphone and 7000 series aluminum, the same alloy used in the aerospace industry, in gorgeous metallic finishes that now include rose gold.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/iphone_6s_iphone_6s-plus/
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05 OCR Instantly 1.1
TheSimplest.Net has announced the release of OCR Instantly 1.1, an update to their app utility developed for iOS and Android devices. OCR stands for Optical Character Recognition which is a technology to convert image to text. In the old days it takes a super computer to perform a complex OCR operation but thanks to the wonders of technology it is now available for everyone with a smart phone. This apps takes an image and converts it into digitized text which can then be shared to other applications such as e-mail and SMS, or simply copy paste the text to anywhere you like.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/ocr-instantly-1-1/
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06 User Groups on Facebook September 12, 2015
Here is some more great content items posted by user group members on Facebook! If you’re not already with us, please feel free to jump in…
* Trackpad Gestures on Macintosh
* Comparing Apple’s iPhone Upgrade Program with AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile – The Mac Observer
* Emergency Medical Info Access
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/user-groups-on-facebook-september-12-2015/
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07 Fews – News feed reader for the Mac
After the success of Fews – Your Essential Daily News for mobile devices (iOS and Android), AppGeneration has just released this Free media app for Mac. With Fews you can read the best news feeds from more than 25 countries, from tech blogs to local news, sports, economy and lifestyle. You can also change to HTML view and read it directly from the sources Web site.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/fews-news-feed-reader-for-the-mac/
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08 Apple InfoManager: iPad, iPhone, Pencils, iPad Pro, and more
Justin Wetherill, founder of uBreakiFix responds to yesterday’s Apple announcements. uBreakiFix is a leading tech repair company with more than 130 stores in the U.S. and Canada.
http://www.ugnn.com/2015/09/1509_announcements/
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09 Apple iPad Pro announced with Apple Pencil and a Smart Keyboard
After months of rumors and speculation, the iPad Pro is here. Apple has unveiled its latest addition to the iPad tablet lineup during a special press event in San Francisco this morning. Like the rumors suggested, the iPad Pro is a larger version of the traditional iPad. Apple CEO Tim Cook says it’s the “biggest news in iPad since the iPad”.
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10 Thoughts on the Rumored iPad pro
There have been enough rumors about an iPad pro to suggest that this device will, indeed, be announced either today or next month.
Kirk McElhearn writes:
What would make sense, however, is a wide-screen iPad. I’ve spoken to a number of people recently who have told me that they mostly watch TV on their iPads. (A recent survey says that 22% of people watch TV on their iPads.)
http://www.mcelhearn.com/thoughts-on-the-rumored-ipad-pro/
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11 Quotes: Benchley, Holmes
Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.
– Robert Benchley
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
– Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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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.
Lynn is currently working to rebuilding the Tulsa Users of Macintosh Society (TUMS) and also is a member of the Apple Corps of Dallas. An active participate on several MUG Facebook pages as well.
Fred has been a user group guy since 1986, through the AOL UG Forum days, then out onto the Web. Fred started and developed the User Group Network as a parallel organization to the Mug News Service, then continued through the founding of the Association of Apple Computer Users and Groups, and continues today at http://www.UGNN.com/.
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