InfoManager for Monday, September 16, 2013

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

What’s Here:
01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Trojans, Taxes, Training, and more
02 The Best Vector Drawing Apps for the Mac
03 Safenetting: Create Strong, Secure Passwords That are Easily Remembered
04 IDG: Security: Setting a Trap to Catch a Tech Thief
05 Worth A Thousand Words
06 E-mail Encryption App Secutor
07 FontAgent Pro 6 Ships
08 Ten Things To Do With Dropbox
09 Fourteen Mac Hacks
10 Infomanager Entertainment: Lego toy meth lab for “Breaking Bad” fans
11 Quotes: Will Rogers’ humor

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01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Trojans, Taxes, Training, and more

We’ve had some complaints from readers that we focus too much on cyber crime, phishing, malware, and only the negative evils of the connected digital world. So, we’re combining all fronts into this single Safenetting post. But please read this week’s piece about “why everyone should learn” and you’ll understand a little more about what’s behind our passion to keep everyone informed. We can only hope that you’ll pass these links and lessons along to your members, your readership, friends, and contacts. We’re all in this together. This week’s Safenetting evils are:
* Types of CyberCrime and Why Everyone, Especially the Elderly, Must Learn
* Scammers Send out Phishing E-mails following Recent Apple Inc (AAPL) Event
* Notorious Trojan Citadel Resurfaces, Attacks Internet users in Japan
* Malware campaign still infectious, demanding ransom after 2 years
* Are You Prepared? 71% Of Cyber Attacks Hit Small Business
* Needle in a Haystack: Harnessing Big Data for Security
* QR Code Security Issues & Smart Phone Vulnerability
* UMBC student wins Microsoft essay contest
* Top 25 area codes getting spammed
and more…

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/1309-16_safenetting/

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02 The Best Vector Drawing Apps for the Mac

The InfoManager went on the Apple App Store looking for some good vector drawing apps to replace or act as surrogate for Adobe’s Illustrator… these are the ones that look like the best thing going:
* iDraw: powerful feature-packed vector drawing and illustration app
* If you’re not a design pro, you may need Logo Design Studio
* Animate: Bring your imagination to life!
* TouchDraw: structured 2D vector graphics
* Clipart Collection by UAB Macmanus
* VectorPro Color
…and more

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/vector_drawing_apps/

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03 Safenetting: Create Strong, Secure Passwords That are Easily Remembered

People who own laptops, tablets, and smartphones with wireless connectivity can access the Internet in a variety of public places – coffee shops, restaurants, and airports. It is convenient, but it also can more easily place personal information in the hands of hackers.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/strong_passwords/

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04 IDG: Security: Setting a Trap to Catch a Tech Thief

As innovation in technology advances, the number of security risks increases – for individuals and for businesses. So how do you catch a tech thief? This week we look at a global program to catch device thieves that was born out of a Chilean man’s pet project, a Forrester paper that explores the importance of security policies in the business world, and a 2013 security report that argues for the need of more secure software – not security software.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/idg_security/

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05 Worth A Thousand Words

In a post on the blog, Minimal Mac, Patrick Rhone posted an article with the above title about the effect the iPhone 5S camera will have on the pro-consumer camera market.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/worth-a-thousand-words/

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06 E-mail Encryption App Secutor

Indie developer Tony Yustein has introduced Secutor 1.0 for iOS. Secutor, an app that generates S/MIME e-mail encryption certificates on iPhone, iPad or iPod touch, was approved by Apple.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/email-encryption-app-secutor/

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07 FontAgent Pro 6 Ships

Insider Software has released FontAgent Pro 6 for Macintosh, an upgrade to its professional font manager, which adds a new Workflow Center, support for Adobe Creative Cloud, more than 1350 free fonts, faster font search, more powerful ESP keyword font search, expanded font verification, and Smasher 3 automatic maintenance software.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/fontagent-pro-6-ships/

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08 Ten Things To Do With Dropbox

This article by Calvin Lee on Mashable lists 10 Things You Didn’t Know Dropbox Could Do.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/10-things-to-do-with-dropbox/

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09 Fourteen Mac Hacks

These Hacks from BuzzFeed by Peggy Wang really are Tips and Tricks and Shortcuts.

http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/14-mac-hacks/

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10 Infomanager Entertainment: Lego toy meth lab for “Breaking Bad” fans

LOL… just when you thought you’d heard everything, for the “Breaking Bad” fans who have everything, there is now a $250 Lego-like meth lab to add to the list. The new toy, however, is not the creation of the Danish toy giant minting money selling bricks worldwide. Instead, it’s the latest product from Joe Trupia, the Chicago artist who runs a company called Citizen Brick… except they’ve sold out. (Thanks to “The Mac Doctor” for sending this one in~)

http://bit.ly/15MX6Fg

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11 Quotes: Will Rogers’ humor

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.

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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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