by Lynn Wegley, InfoManager, with co-editor Fred Showker
What’s Here:
01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Breakins, Hacks, September
02 iPad InfoManager: more iPads, more rumors
03 Colors: Live! 2.0 – Finding color names is now easier than ever
04 Hello Vino Launches New Wine App for iPad with Free $50 Wine Voucher
05 KeynotePro Announces Mojave AG Themes for Keynote ’09
06 Clip art for Movie Makers: Clips 3D for iMovie
07 FileThis Fetch Helps Consumers Stay On Top of Their Paperwork
08 Ten Great Free Apps for Mac
09 Numi 2
10 Twenty terms every Mac user should know
11 How the NSA secures its Macs from snoopers
12 Tribal Nova offers 22 learning games for FREE
13 Quotes: Politics
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01 Safenetting: Spam, Phishing, Breakins, Hacks, September
Hacks and breakins now represent the worst of the spam and phishing – and it’s becoming more and more difficult to pinpoint the criminals. This week’s Safenetting evils are:
* ESET Uncovers Advanced “Hesperbot” Banking Trojan Targeting Europe and Asia
* After Snowden revelations, China worries about cyberdefense, hackers
* Video with Malware Hijacks Users Facebook Accounts and Web Browsers
* Dubious Grand Theft Auto V torrent delivers malware and mobile scam
* Police seize computers linked to large cybercrime operation
* SECNAV launches plan to battle “insider threats”
* Google Play Goes On The Offensive Against Adware
* Old phishing techniques as effective as ever
* IRS Warns Tax Scams Can Happen Anytime
and more…
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/safenetting_1309-09/
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02 iPad InfoManager: more iPads, more rumors
The iPad InfoManager is following the rumors, and the next releases of iPad 5 and iPad mini 2… these are among this week’s best tidbits…
* New iPad Mini Without Retina Display and Second Gen Google Nexus 7
* The Apple Era begins as Microsoft, Google shift to a hardware centric model
* Apple devices account for 4 out of 10 online ad impressions
* iPad 5 and iPad mini 2 shells (includes video)
* Analyst: Here Is Apple’s New Product Schedule
* Nexus 7 vs iPad Mini: King Of Small Tablets
…and more
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/ipad_infomanager_1309/
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03 Colors: Live! 2.0 – Finding color names is now easier than ever
Colors: Live! 2.0 is a major update to the amazing live real time eye dropper utility. Now with over 1,200 built-in color names (and more added with each update), you can instantly find the name of any color.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/colors_live/
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04 Hello Vino Launches New Wine App for iPad with Free $50 Wine Voucher
Hello Vino, LLC has launched a new version 3.0 of its iPhone app with innovative wine shopping features, a universal iPad app and completely new iOS7-inspired design. To celebrate the launch, Hello Vino is offering $50 vouchers towards wine at Naked Wines through a new partner program. Users need only download the new version 3.0 of the free Hello Vino app to receive their $50 credit.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/wine_lovers_bonus/
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05 KeynotePro Announces Mojave AG Themes for Keynote ’09
KeynotePro has launched Mojave AG for Keynote ’09. Mojave AG is a set of two themes in a contemporary, texture-driven style with a classic two-color print design heritage: Mojave Air, an ethereal blue-green over a textured cloud-bank background, and Mojave Ground, blending aerial desert topography with a neutral Southwestern palette.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/mojave-ag/
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06 Clip art for Movie Makers: Clips 3D for iMovie
The release of Clips 3D for iMovie for iOS, is now available in Apple’s iTunes App Store. Clips 3D for iMovie is a library of twenty 3D animated motion graphics video clips built with video makers in mind. Videos can be saved to the user’s camera roll, and used in iMovie projects. Clips 3D’s royalty-free content makes this helper application a great production tool for video makers.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/clips_3d/
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07 FileThis Fetch Helps Consumers Stay On Top of Their Paperwork
FileThis, a Marin, California-based startup, has launched a universal iPhone app for the FileThis Fetch service that lets consumers go paperless. The free FileThis Fetch app for iPhone and iPad securely fetches and delivers financial statements, bills and documents from banks, retirement funds, credit card and utility companies.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/filethis_fetch/
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08 Ten Great Free Apps for Mac
Boyd Petersen on AllMacOnline posted this article. Can’t argue much with this list:
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/10-great-free-apps-for-mac/
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09 Numi 2
Dmitry Nikolaev & Co has announced the release of Numi 2 for Mac OS X. Numi magically combines calculations with text, and allows you to share computations with other users. The new version introduces many new features such as: modes, variables, new operations, global hotkey, accessible results and many others.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/numi-2/
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10 Twenty terms every Mac user should know
Again, a LIST. In this case, Christopher Breen of MacWorld makes the case that we should know all these terms. How many do you know? How many can you explain to your user group members?
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/20-terms-every-mac-user-should-know/
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11 How the NSA secures its Macs from snoopers
Rich Mogull has this article on Macworld’s Web site. He starts out saying that the NSA, (National Security Agency) plays an important role in helping the rest of the government secure its computers from outside attackers. In 2010, the NSA published “Hardening Tips for Mac OS X 10.6 ‘Snow Leopard’”, a two-page pamphlet recommending a series of security precautions. It hasn’t been updated, so Rich has offered this article as an update. To summarize:
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/how-the-u-s-nsa-secures-its-macs-from-snoopers/
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12 Tribal Nova offers 22 learning games for FREE
Tribal Nova, the developers behind PBS KIDS PLAY! online learning program, celebrates the second anniversary of its educational program “i Learn With” by upgrading all apps and permanently offering free access to over 20 learning games within the whole program.
http://www.ugnn.com/2013/09/i-learn-offers-22-learning-games-for-free/
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13 Quotes: Politics:
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that.
– Bill Clinton
The taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it except they keep coming back!
– Will Rogers
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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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